October 2009
3 posts
Clear Windows Event Logs with the Windows Events...
Ever find yourself sifting through specific event logs after debugging a script or application? Do you do the old “hurry up and switch to Event Viewer so I can catch new events” technique? With wevtutil, put this command in front of your script and enjoy event logs that are relevant from the time of execution forward:
wevtutil cl log_name /bu:backup_location_before_clear
wevtutil...
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Applying Traffic Shaping Policies on Single or...
I recently ran into a problem where a single Guest virtual machine on a VMWare ESX host was consuming too much bandwidth (70megabits/second!). When I configure a basic ESX host, I usually am working with a server that has two Ethernet Interfaces. I end up using one interface for management and the other as a virtual switch in which one VM Port Group is created that all the guests utilize. Luckily,...
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Faster than Distributed File System Replication...
DFSR is an extremely important piece of my daily environment. I primarily use it as it was intended - to efficiently replicate files from one location to another over a slow to average link. But, my situation is slightly unique in the fact that files always originate on the far end of the link (remote site) and replicate to a datacenter. Once DFSR replicates this data to the datacenter, a...