Microsoft Teams Enterprise – Voice Call Queue Time Out Handling

Came across an interesting configuration situation the other day and thought that it might make a good post. While receiving calls to a specific Call Queue it would ring straight into Voice Mail and not ring anyone in the group. While reviewing the Call Queue noticed that the Call time out handling was set to […]

When Extending Partition in W2k8

When extending a partition and disk manager shows it expanded but drive does not show the additional free space in Microsoft Windows 2008 Server. Run the following to extend the partition: C:\ > DISKPART DISKPART> List Volume DISKPART> select volume # (this is the number of the volume listed by the above ‘List Volume’ command) […]

Get SCSM 2012 Database Info PowerShell Script

So over the last several years I have had the need to discover what the name of both the Database and Database Servers are for System Center Service Manager. The below script will pull the data from the registry. For right now you can run it both on DataWarehouse Management Server or the Management Server, but […]

Hidden Stored Credentials

I have had several occurances over the last few years where an account keeps getting locked out but even after clearing the Credentail Manager and all browsers it keeps getting locked out. In every case it has come down to the Hidden Credentials in the System Context. There are passwords that can be stored in […]

Useful SCCM 2012 Queries

Below is a list of useful SCCM SQL queries for reporting or Collection creations. Unfortunately, I am unable to recall where I complied all these queries from. I cannot take credit for them, however if you know where they came from please feel free to reply below and I will be happy to update citing the […]

New Year a New Look!

I am starting off this new year by updating the look of my Blog! It has been a while since I have posted anything. I have tons of drafts I just haven’t gotten cleaned up to be posted. This year I am going to be posting more. Starting with getting getting some of my […]

SilverSeekKB – Microsoft Knowledge Base Build search

Big thanks to my colleague that works over at Microsoft for sharing this with me! So… short story a colleague of mine over at Microsoft sent over the following link. This is a fantastic tool for anyone who does patching or remediates patching for security audits. This tool allows you to search the files, build versions and […]

Congratulations Packt on 2000 eBooks!

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SCOM 2012 – SQL Reconnect interval

So I found out the reason why I kept getting the SQL reconnect issue with Ops Manager 2012 that I was having here – Powershell Script to restart SCOM. It turns out that by default Ops Manager 2012 does not automatically try to reconnect to its SQL server. I believe the default interval is like […]

Monitoring: the Holy Grail

What is the ultimate goal of Monitoring? From my many years within the IT industry I have seen this evolved over time. From simply knowing when something doesn’t ping to a full synthetic traversal of an application and all of its components. At the core though it has never changed. The ultimate goal is to […]