You see the acronyms all over the place, and it can be very overwhelming. There are so many articles about cloud, SPOF, RPO, RTO, five 9 up-time and in the end it is really all meaningless unless you understand your own environment. A common misconception is that by putting your data “in the cloud” that you have a Disaster Recovery …
Welcome Veeam to the DiscoPosse!
Please join me in welcoming Veeam Software (http://www.veeam.com) as a sponsor to the DiscoPosse website. I’ve been working with the Veeam products in my lab as well as using the Veeam Backup Free Edition for production backups and cross-datacenter migrations which has really impressed me with its great features and ease of use. For those of you who haven’t already …
SCCM 2007 R2 – Find a Computer by MAC Address
A question that I’m asked very often is how to find a computer by MAC address in SCCM. I’m using SCCM 2007 R2 in my example so don’t quote me on this if you are using SCCM 2012 😉 When you look at the contents of a collection in the ConfigMgr Console you will see that there are a few …
Get-Started: PowerShell 3.0 – Mastering parameters with the Show-Command CmdLet
Welcome to the first PowerShell 3.0 post in the Get-Started learning series. Today we are going to work with PowerShell 3.0 and the Show-Command CmdLet. Because this is a PowerShell 3.0 CmdLet I am assuming that you are working with Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or that you have installed the PowerShell CTP for your existing environment. The Show-Command CmdLet …