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SpongeBob Reading Official Rules Advanced Edition

More Blogs and sites I’ve been reading and sharing

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My Firefox tabs have filled up again, some of these tabs have been open since the start of 2014!!!

So time to share!!!

First off, proud to announce that Cisco asked me to produce a blog post, and decided it was good enough to release into the wild on their site!!!

Get Certified, or get left behind!!!!

PowerShell and Scripting

http://explainshell.com/ – write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument

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Veeam Hidden Feature – Backup Validator

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So the other day I was using the Veeam Backup Extractor Tool, located in the installation folder, when I noticed another .exe file that I hadn’t paid attention to previously.

  • Veeam.Backup.Validator.exe

This a CLI based tool, and does exactly as the name suggests, validates backups.

You can access it by running command prompt;

  •  CD “C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup”
  • Veeam.Backup.Validator.exe and your arguments(to see the full options, see at the bottom)

This is a handy little tool for validating the backup files, and can probably be scripted as well. However unlike the SureBackup feature, it will not guarantee that once the files have been restored, the Virtual Machine’s operating system is intact and in a working condition.

An example of its use

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Blog posts I’ve been reading and sharing recently

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Since before the Christmas break, I’ve not had a great deal to write about, in terms of break fix, as I’ve been busy studying to pass my CCNP exams, and now I’m under way with taking on further exams.

At the same time, I’ve also found some of my posts appearing on a daily round-up of blog posts on Michael White’s site notesfrommwhite.net. So I’ve decided to do something similar, sharing links to some of the content I’ve found interesting and content I’ve been sharing at work recently.

This won’t be a regular thing they’ll I’ll be doing, but more ad-hoc, as I find that the tabs on my laptop and phone fill up quickly with a plethora blog posts which peak my interest, usually found on twitter, so this is what I’ll be sharing.

The Posts and Sites

First off, you need to check out Michael White’s website, found some great stuff through his newletters;

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Get-PowerShelling or Remove-JobRole

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Coding, Scripting, Powershelling, etc etc, Dirty words in the mouth of Infrastructure guys across the globe.

When I was in college taking on my computer course, I had two options, Hardware and Networking, or Web Design. I went with my interests and skillsets, hardware and networking.

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Coding to me is something I wasn’t interesting in when I became a geek, I wanted to provide the platforms for you to build and run your apps on, not be the guy building the apps. It looks like I screwed up, Job Security wise and Pay wise.

5 Years ago when I was getting into the IT industry, it was taking a number of days to provision a server ready for application installation and deployment. Now, thanks to virtualisation, this has been reduced to minutes. Something I think I’ll blog about on another day, the changes in the industry as I see it.

Here’s two slides showing this, provided by Joe Baguley (CTO, VMware).

Slide1 Slide2

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Server 2012 R1/R2 Creating a Network Team and enable Jumbo Frames

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Server 2012 now supports NIC teaming, previously you could use HP tools to achieve this in Server 2008 R2 and below, but officially it was never supported by Microsoft.

Network teaming

Setting up a NIC team in Server 2012 is really simple. You just need to know where your Server is plugged into first on your switches.

1. Open Server Manager, Click on NIC Teaming

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2. Under tasks click new team

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3. Enter your name, select your adapters, and configure your advance network settings which we will talk about later.

And click OK and we are done.

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