Monitor Disk Space

In the following script, you monitor the disk space on a server to let you know when it falls below 100000000 bytes. If the free space falls below 100000000, a message is echoed to the screen every 5 seconds.

To get Model String

For Drivers deployment , we need to find the exact Manufacturer and Model to deploy using SCCM. s We need to create WMI Query to install the Driver Package based on Make & Model.


Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
strWinDir = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%WinDir%")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem")
For Each objItem In colItems
        Manufacturer = objItem.Manufacturer
        Model = objItem.Model
Next

strThisComputer = Manufacturer & " - " & Model

intRetVal = InputBox("Use model string below for Drivers.xml", "Get Make and Model", strThisComputer)

First Look: Windows Server 2012

Microsoft officially releases Windows Server 2012, the first of its latest wave of new operating systems. It shares few things with the new Windows 8 client operating system, including the same Windows NT 6.2 kernel, the same Metro and Desktop split-personality graphical interface. It also shares the same sort of cloud-centric focus as the Windows 8 client OS, except rather than just connecting to cloud services, Server 2012 is intended to be the building block for them.

Windows Server 2012: Cloud Optimize your IT

• Beyond Virtualization

• The Power of Many Servers, the Simplicity of One

• Every App, Any Cloud

• Modern Workstyle, Enabled

Scheduled DHCP Backup using Scheduled Tasks

We have recently upgraded 60 Windows 2003 DC to Windows 2008 R2 DC. After up-gradation, client wants to automate DHCP backup. We have thought of going by scheduled tasks. We followed below procedure

A.      Create a batch file for DHCP Backup and copy that file to all DHCP server

B.      Create a scheduled job on DHCP Server to run DHCP Backup file

C.      Run Scheduled job to verify it’s configured properly

D.      Verify

We want this task to be automated, as login to each server and following the procedure will be time consuming job.

System Center 2012: DPM - Installing Agent and Taking Backup

System Center 2012: Data Protection Manager (DPM) - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCAC 2012.

You can either use a physical or virtual machine that meets the above requirements. The machine that I am installing onto is a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server on Microsoft Hyper-V. 

System Center 2012: App Controller - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center App Controller 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCAC 2012.

You can either use a physical or virtual machine that meets the above requirements. The machine that I am installing onto is a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server on Microsoft Hyper-V. You need to have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 already installed into your environment.

Now you need to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Console onto the SCAC 2012 server.