Category: IT

• Enumerating NTFS ACE/ACL settings

  When dealing with large file stores you occasionally have to review and audit what has been configured (in the future GDPR has the potential to make this compulsory). There’s some lovely commercial tools out there to do this but if you don’t have access to these then you have to rely on the native Microsoft…

  anddrewidit

  May 8, 2017

  Audit, GDPR, Get-Acl, Get-ADGroupName, Get-AdUser, IT, NTFS, powershell

• Draw AD – Visualizing Active Directory Groups

  Graph AD Groups \ A bended knee to the author of this script. This is an excellent work but should not be needed! If only Microsoft had thought to provide a tool set to visualise how Active Directory groups interact. Using ADUC is painful with nested groups and why should we have to create scripts…

  anddrewidit

  December 1, 2016

  IT, powershell

  powershell

• Virtualised MSCS (VMWare)

  This relates to vSphere 5.5 Below vSphere 6 MSCS isn’t supported as a guest but even with vS6 it’s only supported with RDMs (Raw Device Mappings). However you can build a cluster providing you remember the following rules: You CANNOT use vMotion this will create duplicate blanks of the shared disks recovering from this requires…

  anddrewidit

  May 20, 2016

  IT, MSCS, vmware

• Windows Server Failover Clusters – Removing Mount Point Disks

  Really why, in all that is within the realms of common sense, does MS CS default to removing all disk resources from a group if you do not offline the resource beforehand? Surely just blocking the option would be easier? The technet article is not the first that appears when you research removing disks from…

  anddrewidit

  May 20, 2016

  IT, MSCS, SAN, SQL