http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe When some shows you who they are, believe them - Maya Angelou Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:03:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rebuilt Exchange Servers a multitude of times Created a SQL 2008 Cluster on Windows Server 2008 Ent Created a partially functioning Windows Server 2008 Ent cluster for email archive Build SQL 2008 SQL Reporting Services virtual machine running on Windows Server 2008 for email archive. Supervised the upgrade of the test ESX Intel cluster ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=78 * Created three new SQL Reporting Services reports for the ESX server metrics. I then created three ASPX SharePoint pages with page viewer web parts that reference these reports. I stored the SharePoint ASPX pages in the virtualization SharePoint site so that the entire team has access to the same ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=76 * Created Powershell script to automate the collection of VMware statistics. * Created a Powershell script to send Kevin information on the number of operating systems we have in our environment for physical versus virtual computers. * Coordinated and built 3 of the 9 new IBM servers for the Exchange project. http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=74 Rewrote virtual machine inventory script in Powershell – The old script utilized perl, and I rewrote the script using Powershell and the vSphere Power CLI. The data is written to a MySQL database and I utilized the ODBC drivers to connect to the MySQL database. Normalized Runbook data with the ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=67 SharePoint Implementation - Had a wrap up meeting for the project. We are actually going into production. Windows Server 2008 Cluster - Still having issues with adding the second node to the cluster. In my "spare" time - Began work on improving the server provisioning and decommissioning process by adding in ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=60 IBM Director 6.1 Implementation – After moving the new IBM server to the production VLAN, I was able to successfully get several machines to "talk" to the new server. I have hardware inventories for both Windows and Linux machines. I will be putting in a change to put the new ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=54 IBM Director 6.1 Implementation – I have successfully installed IBM Director 6.1 on a virtual machine and configured a test machine to communicate with it. I still don't have all of the information that I did in version 5.20. I still don't have any controller, BIOS or firmware inventories collected ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=48 Team Lead – Assist with SCOM Notifications. Our goal is to have SCOM notify specific personnel with an audible notification. There is a way to use PowerShell to open Windows Media Player from a remote computer, and there has been some success on one client computer. We have so far ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=46 The month of fire fighting I don't have much in WINS column because we spent much of the month fighting fires and working on life cycle management. Fire Fighting 101 Our Exchange 2003 had a significant issue involving mail-enabled Active Directory groups. The root cause was a change that we made to ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=45 SharePoint Rollout - The biggest accomplishment this month was inadvertently “fixing” the SharePoint performance issues we’ve been having. I don’t think I have enough time to list all of the things we have tried and the money we have spent to resolve the performance issues plaguing our SharePoint implementation. So ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kendra.thorpe/?p=43