This came up recently at a customer site. I was looking for the script that fixes this (remembering that the site the fix belongs to is attached to an article that has nothing to do with the issue, but it still works great). What I ran into was a TON of really horrible advice out…
Year: 2011
Perfmon Blackbox… more better :)
During a recent workshop in southern California I promised my students that I would update an old blog of mine that referenced how to create a blackbox perfmon data collector set. In the instructions I mentioned that the best way to get one of these running and keep it running all the time was to…
Put a BlackBox (Black Box) on your server!
So something I’ve been recommending to my customers for a while is to have the equivalent of an in flight data recorder on their server. You can do this with Perfmon with circular logging and it isn’t that hard to set up. Why? Well take for example this scenario. You just got a call from…
RemoveReplicaFromPFRecursive.ps1 returns "There is no existing PublicFolder that matches the following identity"
I was trying to retire my SBS 2008 box after migrating to SBS 2011 and I couldn’t uninstall Exchange Server. I kept getting errors that I needed to remove the replica sets from the public folders. But when I would run the RemoveReplicaFromPFRecursive.ps1 script is would error out over and over no matter what I…