RobbieCrash.me

Adding Cygwin to Windows Terminal (Preview)

I'm liking the Windows Terminal preview more and more, especially now that it doesn't crash every time I close it without exiting PowerShell explicitly. Despite the advancements in WSL, I'm still more likely to use Cygwin when I want to run *NIX utilities on Windows.

scuba diving

Scuba Diving in 2019

Going diving this year was a good time, but very depressing to see the collapse of some sites that were vibrant and full of life two years ago.

PowerShell

PowerShell find Email Addresses in AD Users and Contacts

Recently we had a user from one of our global offices saying they're unable to receive emails from our staff due to duplicate ProxyAddresses in our AD. IDFix was not useful, PowerShell was.

PowerShell

PowerShell find space used by inactive User Drives

Trying to figure out how to clean up our network shares brought me to a bunch of old Home Drives, and PowerShell to figure out how much we were wasting.

PowerShell

Things I Wish I'd Done While Writing PowerShell

About once a year I work from home like a scumbag for a week to get all my big code re-writes done. Throughout the year I write fixes, add new scripts and functions as needed, and then clean everything up, document things properly, add comments, get everything actually working in this week.

scuba diving

On SCUBA Diving, Panicking and Stupid Mistakes

Last January I went on a week long live-aboard cruise with All Star Liveaboards and had a great time doing it. Since it was going to be a fantastic week of diving in an area I wasn't likely to ever go back to, I borrowed my buddy Sam's Hero 3

American Nightmare - Self Titled 2018 Review - A Haiku

This record sucks ass Seriously, it's fucking terrible Jesus Christ, know your audience just play the hits

Microsoft

Step by Step Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS

After years running at 95% RAM 30% idle CPU, I finally got approval to implement a Hyper-V cluster at work. With no money for IT, it had to be done on the cheap. This meant an entry-level SAN, no 10GBe, and existing gear where possible.

Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS – Part 2 Cluster Configuration

After configuring the SAN, the next thing you're going to need to do is get Windows fully configured and joined to the cluster. The cluster configuration portion of things is actually relatively simple, just validate cluster again and again until it passes, then create the cluster. There's some stuff you'll

Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS - Part 1 SAN Config

After installing the PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) and rebooting you should be able to launch it and proceed. Click Add Storage Arrays from the top of the list and go through the automatic setup. Rename your SAN as needed, and configure your email/SNMP settings as appropriate. Add

Sophos UTM 9: Up2Date failed: Not enough free space

After somehow* losing the VHD for my Sophos UTM install on my home Hyper-V server I needed to reinstall and restore my config from backup. However, the only installation media I had downloaded was from when I initially moved from Tomato over to Sophos, which was several years ago. This

maintenance

Nginx 502 Bad Gateway after Ubuntu Upgrade

So I finally tracked down about 6 different errors that were keeping my VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 instead of something more recent. One of the main errors was due to a system misconfig by my VPS host OVH. After getting that fixed, vexed with frustration and carelessly impatient, I

It's 2017 and ZFS STILL doesn't have an API?!?

Why is it that, in 2017, with ZFS, --routinely called the most advanced file system in the world-- I'm having to use awk to parse the status output from its built-in tools? Why is there STILL no documented, easily query-able API for me to use? The only way that there

M83 - Junk

M83 put out a new record, and called it Junk. I agree.

Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash review

So, Beastmilk became Grave Pleasures and stopped putting out good records.

Bolt Thrower

On Bolt Thrower, Faith No More and the quasi-sexual response to music.

This year has been an amazing year for shows for me. I got to see Government Warning again for the first time in 7 years, and I finally got to see two bands that I've been waiting to see for as long as I can remember. tl;dr Bolt Thrower,

Top 10 records of 2014

A bunch of these aren’t from 2014, but I got into them/heard them for the first time this year so it counts. Including tripping balls music because, fuck my punk friends; they don't read this anyhow. tl;dr Also, yeah, way to be on time Robbie. 10. Death

PowerShell

File server permissions change auditing.

We've had some issues with admins improperly applying permissions in the past, and in recent times as well. Because of this, we've decided that maintaining permissions change logging to determine who it is that's having issues learning how to apply permissions can get some extra training on how to appropriately

ZFS on Linux NFS shares lost at reboot

On several occasions NFS has inexplicably stopped working with my ZFS shares under ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu Server 14.04x64. It seemed to happen every reboot, after checking the sharenfs property on each of the ZFS FS' I found they were set properly, but still clients were getting access

PowerShell

Powershell Script to Audit Service Accounts Across All Servers

Today I got a half-joke request from a colleague to write script to help him audit service accounts across a multitude of servers. Initially, I didn't see the use of writing a full script to do this for myself and my AD environment so I fired off this from my

Beastmilk - Climax

A few weeks ago someone told me to check out Climax by Beastmilk, and I was mister cool guy I'll check it out some time whatever. A friend reminded me to check it out three days ago, and aside from the subway ride home that day, I've yet to listen

Exchange 2013

Exchange 2013 Management tools on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Trying to install Exchange 2013 Management tools on Windows 8.1 is likely to present some problems by default. Unless you've already installed the IIS components required by Exchange you'll get an extremely unhelpful error message when trying to install, saying that it cannot be installed on a client-based OS.

Online File Server Archiving with PowerShell

Our fileserver was running low on space and still growing at about 80GB/month. Rather than throw more storage at it, which would only buy us another few months before we had to do it again, I figured I'd look for something that would archive unused data to secondary storage,

My Top 10 records of 2013

A bunch of these aren't from 2013, but I got into them/heard them for the first time this year so it counts. I'm not including the tripping balls music I like on here because I still want to appear to be cool to my punk friends. tl;dr 10.

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2013 2007 CoExistence Frozen Transport Queues

We're in the middle of an Exchange 2007 to 2013 On Premise migration, and we haven't been having the best time. After a major mail crash in 2011, every time we've attempted to move off the recovered server, either to Exchange 2010 or to a freshly built Exchange 2007 setup,