by skufel | Aug 15, 2015 | Hardware, Windows
When trying to recover my Lumia 820 from unsuccessful OS upgrade, phone went completely dead. I was not able to turn it on or see any sign of activity in the device (boot manager damage happened probably). At that stage I decided to look for tool which can recover my...
by skufel | Aug 15, 2015 | Hardware, Windows
When I tried to install Technical Preview of Windows 10 on my Nokia Lumia 820, I ended up with phone which went into infinite loop of updating. As a result of that phone became unusable and there was no way to bring it back to life without any additional intervention....
by skufel | Aug 4, 2015 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, Scripting, SysAdmin, Web Servers
If you need to watch IIS application pool and start it once goes down and want to use PowerShell for that here is simple script for that. Script includes also logging all restarts in log file which is created in same folder as script. # AppPool to monitor $AppPoolName...
by skufel | Jul 27, 2015 | Databases, HA/DR, Infrastructure
SQL Server 2012 has very nice HADR technology built-in, AlwaysOn Availability Groups. It allows to have multiple replicas of selected databases across multiple servers, which can be even located across multiple sites. AlwaysOn itself provides mechanism to keep all...
by skufel | Jul 26, 2015 | Development, SysAdmin, Windows
Many times you think how to extract some information from memory.dmp generated by Windows once it crashes. Let’s have a look into quick process, which might be very helpful in many cases during troubleshooting unexpected BSODs on client computers. Before we...
by skufel | Jul 22, 2015 | Automation, Databases, Scripting, Windows
Recently I went through requirement of running SQL scripts on multiple databases on different servers. As the list of databases was different from script to script I decided to create universal solution, which will allow to easily prepare for deployment and can be...
by skufel | Jun 16, 2015 | Databases, Linux, SysAdmin
Recently I went through installation process of Bareos on openSUSE. Bareos seems to be interesting solution for backups in heterogeneous environments. Ok,let’s start and see how to deploy in 5 steps: Step 1: Add repository with Beros and Beros WebUI; Install...
by skufel | Jun 1, 2015 | Collaboration, Linux
In case you want to deploy MediaWiki 1.25.1 with VisualEditor use following components: MediaWiki 1.25.1 http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.1.tar.gz – stable VisualEditor REL1_25...
by skufel | May 24, 2015 | Linux, SysAdmin, Unix
I just found vi reference from Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) 🙂 Nice piece of memorabilia as well as handy reference for vi beginners. Title Page Reference Page 1 Reference Page 2 Final Page...
by skufel | May 24, 2015 | Infrastructure, Linux, SysAdmin
If you use CentOS and want to add some extra packages you can use EPEL. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux is project created by Fedora. In order to use repositories on CentOS first download and install RPM appropriate for your version of CentOS from here: Method 1...
