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The Ultimate Performance Tuning Guide for Windows Server 2016 #HyperV #MVPHour

Apr 27, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

I know a lot of us are always struggling to figure out the best way to optimize our Server Farms....

List of my Sessions for #VeeamOn 2017 New Orleans, LA #Veeam #VeeamVanguard #MVPBuzz

Apr 26, 2017 | Veeam | 0 |

Well I seem to have done it to myself again. I submitted a ton of sessions for #VeeamON 2017 and I...

#Meetup with the Calgary Microsoft User Group #CMUG and learn about @ONEDrive for Business #OneDrive

Apr 26, 2017 | Office365 | 0 |

Emile and I will be doing our very first presentation as MODE (Microsoft OneDrive for Business...

Learning OneDrive for Business Part 2 @OneDrive #OneDrive #MVPHour

Apr 26, 2017 | Office365 | 0 |

So, we are starting on our journey of learning OneDrive for Business. I have a goal in mind for...

Learning OneDrive for Business Part 1 @OneDrive #OneDrive #MVPHour

Apr 25, 2017 | Office365 | 0 |

In this series, we will learn about Microsoft OneDrive for Business. Let’s get started by...

Active Directory Authentication (LDAP) for Cisco Unified Computing System Manager (UCS) – Part 1 #ActiveDirectory #UCS #MVPHour

Apr 21, 2017 | HyperConverged | 0 |

UCS Manager supports LDAP Authentication along with a specific setting for Microsoft’s LDAP implementation, Active Directory. After configuring this a few times for multi-domain support, I’ve found a few things that can become troublesome if you don’t watch out.

#PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 5

Apr 15, 2017 | PatchSolution, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

Having an email in your inbox outlining which machines in your organization that are going to be patched in the next day or two is every service owner/managers dream. So simple and proactive. The email also outlines when the machines are going to be patched and displays how many outstanding updates there are. This is a summary of what will happen in the days to come. Keep reading to see how you can dive into seeing the details of what is about to happen in your organization.

#PowerShell – Setting SQL Server Memory Allocation (Maximum and Minimum)

Apr 13, 2017 | Scripts, Windows Server | 1 |

If you’ve ever run an installation of SQL Server, you’ll know it’s a database, and databases love, love, love memory. By design and by default, Microsoft SQL Server thinks it’s the only process on the system and is therefore given all the available memory and CPUs. As a best practice, I limit this. Here is the script I use to edit these values.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 17 #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour

Apr 12, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

I have recently had the chance to work on the configuration of a @Cisco Meraki farm this week. I...

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 4

Apr 12, 2017 | PatchSolution, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

The previous posts on The Patch Solution have outlined the though process and goals to a patching strategy. Now it’s time to start taking that strategy and putting it into practice. Now that we have defined some of our goals (See

The Patch Solution – Part 3 post), we can start looking at how we reach those goals. In my opinion, one of the easiest goals to attain is reporting. This gives you an attainable goal which is completely measurable and trackable. Simply run a report, see where you’re at, update a few machines, run a report and see where you got to. The solutions that we try and come up with at TriCon Elite is all about being free and giving back to the community. We like to strive for secure and simple. For The Patch Solution, we opted to use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

SCCM PowerShell and Connect to Multiple SCCM Sites at once (DEV/Prod)

Apr 11, 2017 | SCCM, Scripts | 0 |

There have been quite a few times that I’ve needed to do some comparisons, or even move some objects from one SCCM environment to another. The System Center Configuration Manager console has quite a few options for exporting objects, or saving things to CSV, but then you still need to import it. Check out the rest of this blog post to see how easy it is to report, compare or recreate things between your SCCM environments with PowerShell.

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 3

Apr 9, 2017 | Design, PatchSolution, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

So far in this blog series (See previous post: PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2),...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 16 #StorageSpacesDirect #mvphour

Apr 8, 2017 | S2D, Scripts | 0 |

As you read in Part 15 of this blog Series we are able to create some great Gold Images with Big...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 15 #StorageSpacesDirect #mvphour

Apr 7, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

We have been having some great feedback over the past few weeks on the blog series and especially...

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 2

Apr 7, 2017 | PatchSolution, SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

In the previous part of this blog series (PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1) we introduced The Patch Solution. Simple, elegant, but yet empowering! In this post, I want to talk about some of the issues I’ve seen and heard about around patching. After you understand this, you’ll have a deeper understanding of The Patch Solution.

PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1

Apr 6, 2017 | PatchSolution, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

Over the last few years, we here at TriCon Elite have been using what we call “The Patch Solution”. Boring name, but it also fits its purpose. Who loves deploying patches and reporting? There are many ways to patch your Windows Servers, but our slim, simple, PowerShell solution was created to solve a few key areas, for free. It has been released to the community for quite some time, but keep reading on why you should use it too!

PowerShell – Add a Direct Member to a SCCM Collection

Apr 3, 2017 | SCCM, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

One of these tasks was to add a computer directly to a SCCM collection. According to their requirements, they had to use direct membership and could not do a WMI call. So I created the following script and added it to their task sequence.