Author: Renjith

Working with Azure PowerShell on Mac

Since PowerShell announced as open source it has support on Linux and Mac as well and the extended support makes below possible. Managing Azure using PowerShell from Linux or Mac Managing Linux and Windows Containers with Docker Native Linux Management with PowerShell Manage AWS using PowerShell from Linux Manage VMware using PowerShell from linux Today […]

SharePoint 2013 Step By Step with Best Practices

Here will see the Sharepoint 2013 3 Tier installation with step by step instructions  and the installation of SQL server with it’s best practices. Before we begin the installation let’s look at the 3 tier architecture of the SharePoint 2013 installation. (Image credit – https://technet.microsoft.com ) Step 1 So the next step is to create […]

HP 3Par disk space reclaiming issue

Well known issue of 3par when deleting and creating new Virtual volumes. “The layout request requires xxx MB of space, but the system only has xxMB of space available with the specified characteristics: Raid 5, set size 4, availability “ha mag”, device of type FC.” This is usually happens when you are repartitioning a CPG […]

How to remove the failed disk from HP 3Par Storage

Follow the below steps to remove the failed disk from the HP 3Par storage. You need to execute the below commands from the storage Shell. You can SSH to your storage to perform this. showversion – Run this to get the version details.

Practical Guide To Download PC Games From The Web

The good old days when computer games were normally sold on floppy disk (before they were replaced by CD-ROM) look pretty removed from the current technologies. We are all very confident with today’s most advanced technology that we don’t regret past tools! That’s a normal aspect which suggests to us all that the IT are […]

Export Folder and Sub folder permissions to CSV

Here is a quick powershell one liner commands to export the NTFS permissions for a root folders or with Sub folders. To export for a single Folder. Get-Childitem -path C:\MyFolder | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer} | Get-ACL | Select-Object Path -ExpandProperty Access | Export-CSV C:\Temp\Ntfs_single.csv   Export command for a folder tree Get-Childitem -path C:\MyFolder -recurse | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer} […]

How to check the database content index status (Failed) and update the catalog via Powershell

a) This will return a result of all DB with Content Index State  failed. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * | where {$_.ContentIndexState -eq “Failed”} b) By using the following command we can update the content index status of all the failed DBs. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * | where {$_.ContentIndexState -eq “Failed”} | Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy -CatalogOnly c) Following command will help to […]