Powershell script to create reverse lookups (PTR) in Microsoft DNS

We’re switching IP spaces at work and need to create a large amount of reverse lookup PTR records for our PAT/NAT pools. Microsoft only allows you to manually create one DNS entry at a time via the GUI so I wrote a simple Powershell script that lets you mass create sequential PTR records.   #################################### … Read more

Symantec Backup Exec RALUS crashes on CentOS 7

We just deployed our first CentOS 7 machine and are trying to back it up using Backup Exec 2010 R3 and the RALUS agent. After installing the missing compatibility libraries needed for the RALUS: yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 the agent installs and starts but once the Media Server connects to it the agent crashes. Some … Read more

How to upgrade CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

This article comes with a HUGE warning. This was written using beta tools available from here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/upg/x86_64/Packages/ I will likely update this article when these tools are no longer in beta and when I perform this on my more complicated production server. Right now I’m testing these packages and this method on a relatively simple … Read more

KB2917508 (Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3) appears to hang during installation

Last updated: [last-modified] Recently I had to install KB2917508 on one of our existing Exchange 2010 SP3 servers. This Rollup had been successfully installed on our 4 other Exchange servers but for some odd reason this server it would appear to hang during the install progress. The progress bar would stop just short of 50% … Read more