• SNMP Agent in Lotus Domino Server for Windows Server

    To setup the Domino 8.0.x SNMP Agent (If not included as a feature when installing Lotus Domino) first ensure Windows snmp service is installed and stopped. Dominos SNMP utilises event4.nsf and therefore can be customised as required. We can instruct the Domino Server to install a service on Windows by running the following in a…

    Continue reading

  • Compress and move existing Windows 2012 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express backups

    The following has been used to backup a server with Cisco Cubac on. The software runs on Windows 2012 machine and uses SQL Server 2008 Express. As its not on a managed server I had to find a way to backup the server and the database, plus keep the backup as small as possible. I…

    Continue reading

  • Synctoy 2.1 setup batch script

    This code was used to speed up the setup of SyncToy 2.1 (I see no reason to backup the entire user profile folder, but I hate having to setup multiple sync jobs). As Microsoft has not updated SyncToy it may not work on anything other than Windows 7. The script expects SyncToy 2.1 is installed…

    Continue reading

  • Simple backup and restore scripts

    Back when my workplace migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7, I became lazy and automated backing up and restoring a users profiles important files in a batch script. Here I backup to the drive H, this drive is pretty much our standard user drive. If the user does not have a H drive some…

    Continue reading

  • Old Sites

    This is just a note to acknowledge that back in 2001 until 2011 I hosted a number of Gaming websites for a number of communities.  It generated a whole $100 of revenue (never near the operating costs) but had over 20 million page views and allowed me to develop skills as a system administrator on CentOS, cPanel…

    Continue reading