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How can I view log files live?

January 29, 2017 by Wayne Small 3 Comments

You’re troubleshooting an issue for a client, and the log files are all text based log files.  The normal default goto tool used to read these is of course Notepad.  The challenge however is how do you handle it if there are changes being made to the log files.  Notepad just does not cut it at that point. A few years back, I was working on a project where we had to move 400 … [Read more...]

Active Directory Replication Status Tool

December 24, 2015 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

Microsoft have recently released a very cool tool that allows you to visually check our your Active Directory Replication status.  Normally you would use repadmin to check the status of AD and the results of that would be viewed in the command window, and require interpretation.  This tool is a GUI tool that allows less experienced admins to check the status of Active … [Read more...]

How to mirror a directory structure without the files

July 20, 2012 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

Have you ever needed to copy or replicate an entire directory structure without the files themselves?  I’ve often needed to do that when setting up some USB hard drives for offsite replication with ShadowProtects ImageManager.  I found a nice simple way to do it with the Robocopy command robocopy E:\SPBackup F:\OffsiteBackup /e /xf *.* That command basically … [Read more...]

Where is all my disk space going?

June 29, 2012 by Wayne Small 9 Comments

I’m sure you’ve had clients servers disks fill up on a regular basis right?  Here’s a cool tool that is free that you can use to quickly figure out where it’s all gone.  TreeSize Free from JAM Software is a free tool, you can download it here but I’ve also paid for the Professional Version for my own systems. As an example – here’s an example of a servers hard drive … [Read more...]

IP Subnet Calculator

October 14, 2011 by Wayne Small 6 Comments

Back in the days when I did my TCP/IP for NT4 training, you had to be able to understand subnets and decide on them manually.  Now further down the track, there’s a lot more use of TCP/IP as it’s the foundation of life, the universe and everything.  One of my guys in the office showed me this cool website that you can use to do all the basic calculations for you for … [Read more...]

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