Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server – Default Printer Keeps Changing or Default Printer Settings Won’t Stay

If you're working with 2008 R2 Terminal servers you'll find that on every login the default printer will be changed. This is how you fix it. Open server manager and then drill down to the “RD Session Host Configuration” menu. Right click RDP-Tcp and click properties Go to the client settings tab and confirm “Default …

Cisco – Basic Policy Based Routing

Link between R1-2 is 10.0.0.0/30 link between R1-4 is 10.0.1.0/30 Link between R2-4 is 10.0.2.0/30 Link between R2-3 is 10.0.3.0/30 R1 has a loopback of 1.1.1.1/32 R3 has a loopback of 3.3.3.3/32 We want our traffic to go from router 3 (far right) to router 4, then to router 1. We need to apply this …

Vultr.com Module for Powershell | Create, Stop, Start, Restart, and Destroy Virtual Machines!

My beta  module so be gentle, I will definitely be going back  and redoing the code. However right now it does work for up to 5 VMs. It basically uses invoke-webrequest instead of having to download curl for Windows. A fun learning experience that I will definitely be going back to perfect and fix. Download …

Windows 7 – Mount multiple ISOs to Directory with Powershell for Free

So I'm in a situation where I need over 30 ISOs mounted on reboot to folders. Luckily PISMO file mount does this perfectly! http://pismotec.com/ They even provide command line support for their software. That means we can script something small with powershell. My goal was that all my ISOs get mounted to the same directories …

BGP – Using the next-hop-self command to provide Transit

yes, I see I spelled Colorado wrong. In this topology:   Denver is AS1 Chicago to Colorado is AS 2 Virginia and everything to the right is AS3   First we configure our links with /30s, then I give denver a lo0 of 1.1.1.1 and Chicago a l0 of 2.2.2.2, then configure eBGP between the …

Windows Server – How to Add Disks Performance Tab in Task Manager

Sometimes you might find yourself on a virtual machine or a server with no disk performance monitoring settings under task manager, like the image below...       To enable the disk statistic feature in Windows server, or in any windows OS run the following command in command prompt!   diskperf -y You should now …