Petri IT Knowledgebase by Daniel Petri

Service Manager 2012 Beta Part 4 - SCCM 2007 R3 Connector Configuration
In part 4 of Peter De Tender's 6 part series on installing Service Manager 2012, Peter walks through configuring the SCCM 2007 R3 Connector. This is a critical step as it connects SCSM to your System Manager, feeding important data to your CMDB and simplifying the management of objects and data.

Diagnosing Windows Memory Problems
One of the most common reasons computers fail is because of faulty or failed memory and Windows does a good job alerting you after the memory has failed. It is better to find failing memory before it has crippled your machine though. In this post, Jeff Hicks explains how to use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool to diagnose memory issues.

3 Steps To Secure Your Data In the Cloud
In this post, Greg Stuart challenges you to protect your data in 2012. Greg provides an easy 3 step guide to protecting your data both from intruders and from hardware failure by putting your data in the cloud and securing it properly.

OSPF Redistribution Troubleshooting
In today's post, Sean Wilkins discusses OSPF redistribution and briefly covers some issues that one must keep in mind when configuring redistribution within OSPF. With these things in mind, you can go a long way towards ensuring that your network will continue to run smoothly and correctly when utilizing OSPF redistribution.

How To Change User Password With PowerShell
In today's post, Michael Simmons shows how simple it is to change user's local and domain passwords using PowerShell with WMI and .NET. This allows quick flexible changes to user accounts with script that can be reused whenever the need arises.

Cisco UCS - Creating Service Profile Templates - Part 1
In this video post from TrainSignal, Cisco UCS expert Jason Nash will show you the required steps to creating a Service Profile Template in your Cisco Unified Computing System. Service Profile Templates can make it easy for you to provision many servers because it will allow you to quickly create multiple service profiles having the same basic parameters like say the number of vNICs and vHBAs.