Eric Schewe

System Administrator for a University in British Columbia, Canada

Previous version of the Active Directory Replication Status Tool

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Who liked using the Active Directory Replication Status Tool? I did. Who thought it was a great, simple, straight forward tool that was far easier than interpreting the output of some command line tools and didn’t feel it needed to become a cloud service with a less intitive interface? I do. Digging through a few of my … Read more

Powershell script to monitor mount points in Windows and e-mail an alert

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Simple script inspired by this blog post. This script will read a servers.txt file located in the same directory as the script, check each server listed (one per line, use the servers FQDN) for mount points, see how much free space is available, compare it to a minimum amount you set and then e-mail an … Read more

Error 1603 while upgrading vCenter 5.5 to 6.0u1

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Upgrading vCenter recently from vCenter 5.5 to 60.u1 and the upgrade would consistently fail displaying two error messages. First it would display “An error occurred while invoking external command: ‘Database instance not defined for mssql provider’” Then the installation would appear to proceed until it got to installing the VCSServiceManager. Then I would get Error … Read more

NetApp SnapManager for Exchange – Error Code: 0xc004146f

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We use SnapManager for Exchange and NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery to backup our Exchange 2010 environment. We’ve noticed that randomly our backups will fail with a verification error. The backups are still good and the failure usually happens 2-3 times in a row and then doesn’t happen again for a month. NetApp has a KB … Read more