Update Windows Path Environment Variable

Today I had to make similar changes to 10 Windows servers.  The changes consisted of copying a couple specialized programs from a source location and updating the Windows path.  I couldn’t remember how to update the Windows path variable from the command prompt (other than for the current command prompt of course) so I tooled […]

Optimizing Images to Save Bandwidth on AWS

Last month our finance guy came to me in a bit of a panic to point out that our Amazon Web Services (AWS) bill was way higher than expected – by several thousand dollars.  After the initial shock wore off I started digging to figure out just what was going on. From Amazon’s bill I […]

Delete Files by Date With DOS Batch File

I have a server that is continuously filling it’s drive with temporary files left over from a video encoding process we use.  Every week or so I have to manually delete the old files to prevent the drive from filling.  Finally today I headed on a journey to figure out a way to programmatically clean […]

ASA 5500 SSL VPN Add Licenses to ASA

I recently had to enable some of my mobile Mac clients with Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client for Mac.  Then, of course since the ASA only included 2 SSL VPN licenses and that’s what the AnyConnect VPN Client uses I had to purchase some additional licenses.  I purchased the licenses through a reseller & a couple […]

Expanding a Virtual Disk on a Dell MD 3000i SAN – How To

If you’re like me you don’t allocate all disks to a SAN out of the gate.  I like to keep a little in reserve so I can add capacity when needed.  Then, once all the disks are added I’ll usually pickup a couple more disks and keep those in reserve.  In either case once it […]

Amazon ELB & IIS – Capturing Client IP Address

I’ve been using Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for a couple years now to load balance web applications, and for the most part it’s been great.  The one draw back I’ve run into is that IIS logs the load balancer’s private IP address as the c-ip address, rather than the client’s actual IP address.  Essentially […]

Copying an EBS-backed Windows 2008 AMI Between AWS Regions – How-to

Unfortunately Amazon doesn’t have an easy or native way to copy or move or launch an AWS AMI from one region to another.  There are a number of posts on the Internet about how to do this with a Linux AMI, but I haven’t been able to find clear instructions on how to do this […]