psFetch is my latest project and is a Powershell cmdlet that communicates with various Repositories on the Internet to find what you are looking for and easily download and install them to your machine.
The cmdlet itself is written in C# and utilises a centralised LAMP backend as a repository and director.
Upon install psFetch will create a custom shortcut on your desktop which includes the psFetch cmdlet as one of the default set of commands available without having to use add-pssnapin each time.
Everytime you add a cmdlet or script they will be added to your console profile and ...
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Just as I've finished consolidating all my Physical machines to HyperV guests Microsoft have announced Windows HyperV Server which is a free download.
With the release of the HyperV Linux Componants I'm going to start moving some workloads away from my old ESX 2.5 servers and see if HyperV Synthetic devices work as well as ESX devices do.
Not that I knew it at the time but Microsoft have also updated their Support policies to include Exchange Server SP1 when virtualized.
The other good news is that there are reports that we'll have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (final ...
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There was a post today on the Asterisk Users mailing list about needing a simple way to monitor if your Asterisk lines are working ok.
As it turns out I had such a script in my little store of doom. So just in case the Asterisk Users post doesn't get archived here it is:
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<?
///////////////////////////////////////////////////
// This is a quick script that allows the external
// monitoring to check that all is ok.
//
// Gareth#NetworksAreMadeOfString.co.uk
///////////////////////////////////////////////////
$s = ...
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Recently I encountered a situation where a vanilla install of Postfix had been targeted by what appeared to be a Spam Botnet. Bizarrely this server was what you could call an 'Edge Server' but it didn't have any AntiVirus or AntiSpam to be honest it was pretty useless.
There were three issues to clear up. First there were 2,435,239 emails from the Botnet destined for a domain that was no longer hosted on the 'backend' server. Secondly none of this email was being Spam checked and finally the massive queues meant that the 568,372 legitimate emails stuck in the queue were being delayed by ...
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