by skufel | Jan 3, 2014 | Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
By default remote management on Windows Server 2012 Core can be blocked by firewall. In order to enable this functionality, issue following command from Command Prompt window: Netsh.exe firewall set service remoteadmin enable ALL Once it’s done you should be...
by skufel | Aug 15, 2013 | Collaboration, Windows
Screenshots from SharePoint Foundation 2010 installation process. Server Farm installation type has been chosen. Account svc-spf has been created in lab.corp (LAB) domain prior to installation. No special permissions set on this account. Initial configuration once...
by skufel | Apr 4, 2013 | Databases, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I had issue which occured without any particular reason on SQL Server 2012. All of the sudden I start getting error message: Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005...
by skufel | Jan 4, 2012 | Databases, Directory Services, Infrastructure, Scripting
I think it’s common problem as Active Directory gets bigger in organizations, control over content of that mission-critical component seems to be lost. Same happened in my place. In addition to that we had to provide information from AD on a regular basis in a...
by skufel | Dec 11, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, System Center
As we can download SCOM 2012 RC from Microsoft, I decided to do quick installation in LAB environment. Whole test environment is based on VMware Workstation 8. Deployment of SCOM 2012 will be spread across few servers to separate certain functions (in fact similar to...
