A common problem which occurs when going to allocate a new database in Microsoft SQL is an extremely long operation which will occur by default due to a disk zeroing operation that is performed when creating a new database. By default this will take a very long time even on the most powerful of database servers.
If you’ve setup Opalis for the first time, after a while, you may notice a slowdown in performance when looking at the policies in the Opalis client. You may notice, that the process OISClient.exe in the Task Manager takes up an unusually large portion of the CPU when you try to view a policy. Something [...]
Typically whenever you have a problem with inbound or outbound enterprise voice calling with Lync Server 2010 you will need to utilize the Lync Logging Tool to find out more information about what kind of problem you are facing and how to rectify the issue.
Last time i wrote a tutorial on how to write a .net script that will auto login into a website. You can find that link here. However, there’s a flaw with that script, today i’m going to show you how to fix that flaw. You can use that code if you know the id of [...]
This is my 3rd article on Opalis. You can check my other two articles out here: http://www.misdivision.com/blog/creating-an-automated-e-mail-notification-in-opalis and http://www.misdivision.com/blog/integrating-opalis-with-system-center-essentials. This time, I will show you how to create a policy that will look at Windows services. The policy will check to see if a service is stopped or paused and if so, the policy will attempt [...]
InnoDB is a storage engine used by MySQL. It supports commit, rollback and crash-recovery capabilities to protect user data. Very large database are configured on InnoDB due to its maximum efficiency. To maintain data integrity, InnoDB also supports FOREIGN KEY referential-integrity constraints. You can freely mix InnoDB tables with tables from other MySQL storage engines, [...]
Today i’m going to show you how to write an auto login script for the .net framework. This script automates Internet Explorer via the COM interface, which exposes the entire Document Object Model (DOM) to the awesomeness that is Powershell. # initialized two variable for the username and password $username=”username” $password=”password” # Create the IE [...]
In my last article, I talked briefly about Opalis and its ability to automate monitoring tasks. Opalis can also work hand in hand with SCE (System Center Essentials), taking advantage of the wide array of built in alerting and monitoring of SCE and combining it with the easy-to-understand workflow and automation that Opalis offers. Opalis [...]
System Center Opalis is a Windows solution for automating tasks that would normally be done by computer technicians monitoring computers and devices. Workflows are created visually for tasks using an Opalis client. In this article, I will show you how to create an automated e-mail notification in Opalis. This article already assumes you have deployed Opalis and [...]
