Part I.5: Creating a user for our Testlab with DSC

March 26, 2015 FoxDeploy

Learning DSC Series

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System Center Orchestrator: Solving Return Data is blank

March 21, 2015 FoxDeploy

System Center Orchestrator–formerly Opalis Orchestrator– and now lovingly called SCORCH by its fans is a powerful automation tool, but there are a lot of gotcha’s that makes it difficult to begin rolling out in the environment.

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Part I : Building an AD Domain Testlab with DSC

March 20, 2015 FoxDeploy

Learning DSC Series

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Orchestrator and PowerShell - Solved: the execution of scripts is disabled on this system

March 06, 2015 FoxDeploy

System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis Orchestrator) is a wonderful tool for automating heavy lifting in your environment, like managing Exchange server Windows Updates, while respecting DAGs, or other situations with repetitive tasks that can take a lot of manual labor, so long as the logic for responding to particular circumstances are well understood.

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Solved: Getting a user's Distribution Group Memberships

February 27, 2015 FoxDeploy

It’s surprisingly hard to get back a listing of all of a particular user’s Exchange Distribution Group Memberships. The strange thing about this is that you can very easily get a list of all of a user’s AD Security Groups using

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Migrating to your own WordPress.org account - things that will suck and how to avoid them

February 20, 2015 FoxDeploy

I’ve recently been in the process of migrating my blog off of WordPress.com hosting to my own WordPress.org account.  I tried a few things, a number of which did not work well, and I hope to help you avoid them if you try the same thing too.

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