Eric Schewe

System Administrator for a University in British Columbia, Canada

How to (almost) automatically backup your Steam library

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Update 2018-11-12 It appears a recent Steam update broke the way I was originally launching Steam via the scheduled task. I’ve updated the post accordingly with a different method of accomplishing the same task.   Original Post I recently started making an effort to make sure all of my digital purchases are backed up. Apps, … Read more

Script to sync Domain Controller SSL Certificates to a specific host

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We have an application that uses LDAP over SSL to authenticate users via Active Directory. The server running the application is a member of the domain and has the domains Root CA installed in it’s local certificate store. Technically the Root CA should be good enough for the server and any applications on it to … Read more

Migrating DHCP from 2003 to 2012 R2

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This post will likely fall on deaf ears since no one out there is still running Windows Server 2003 right? Well we are for our oldest DHCP server. Better yet it’s 2003 Standard (non R2) which means I can’t installed Active Directory Management Gateway Service which would allow me to remotely access DHCP on the 2003 … Read more

After vCenter 6.5 U1g newly cloned VMs report “HA not enabled”

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Our environment is: vCenter 6.5 U1g (8024368) running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard VM (we’re moving to an appliance once we go 6.7) vSphere 5.5 7504623, 8 node cluster Since upgrading to the latest vCenter every new VM we clone into our production cluster reports “The virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA Protected … Read more