I've come to the difficult decision that I need to archive the logstash-output-jdbc project. I apologise to anyone depending on it. Speaking frankly it should not be a surprise as it's effectively been unloved since Logstash 2.0 and I have been asking for others to come forward and assist for sometime. logstash-output-jdbc is a very small project (and quickly hacked together project) that is easy to understand and is honestly ripe for either rewriting or refactoring with the new features Logstash has implemented over the years.

Please be aware that the instructions differ significantly between AeroFS versions, due to AeroFS changing under the hood. Please be very careful that you check which version you are working with before following any instructions. AeroFS 1.0.0-1.0.1 This was tested under AeroFS 1.0.1 and 1.0.0 and Hyper-V 2012 R2. It may not work for your environment. This is not a supported configuration. You're on your own. Sign up for the private cloud edition, and download the OVA file from the AeroFS if you don't already have it.

This post is largely for future me. I'm fed up with (re)writing/(re)discovering some of these queries. However, I also hope it can help other people. This post was written specifically whilst I was finishing up with an Exchange 2010 installation. However, should work verbatim with 2007 and some of the queries may require a little alteration for 2013. If you're still on 2003. I'm sorry. So your Exchange server has a w3wp instance with high memory and cpu.

The important thing to remember is that in Exchange 2013 Public Folders don't really exist like they used to. They're basically mailboxes. In this particular scenario Public Folders were accessible internally, but not via Outlook Anywhere (or Outlook RPC over HTTPS if you're old). This problem can manifests where the email address policy that applies to the Public Folder mailbox does not assign an email address that can be configured by autodiscover.

In the run up to Windows 2012 R2 I've not been paying as close attention as I would normally, meaning that I seem to have missed out on an interesting new feature in powershell 4 called Desired State Configuration (or DSC).

Example configuration to ensure that Hyper-V feature is installed on hv01-hv03 # Basically a block that can be used to generate a file Configuration HyperVNodeCfg { Node ("hv01", "hv02", "hv03") { WindowsFeature HyperVFeature { Ensure = "Present" Name = "Hyper-V" } } } # Compile to MOF HyperVNodeCfg -OutputPath HyperVNodeCfg # Apply the MOF Start-DscConfiguration -Path HyperVNodeCfg -Wait -Verbose It ships with Windows 8.

Plantronics GameCom 780 under Linux, when using it as an analogue device has always been touchy for me; 1% volume is unusably loud for me. However using it as a digital output has always been fine in my experience. Under Ubuntu 13.10 (and Debian unstable as of the posting date) the digital device is missing out of the box. The fix is to edit /usr/share/alsa/cards/USB-Audio.conf, find the "Plantronics GameCom 780” 999entry (line 46 on my Debian unstable laptop and Ubuntu 13.

Until a few months ago I had 2 internet connections at home - one for work purposes and one for everyone else in the house. With rising speeds on one of the lines, I decided to merge the 2 connections, but retain the separation of networks through VLAN'ing. Whilst a Linux/BSD box is an option, I wanted something that I couldn't fiddle with too much. I'm ultimately providing a service to my housemates, so it should Just Work(TM).

Programming will return to usual computer related bloggery shortly. I've lived with 3 other guys, who I've known for a long time now, for several years. In that time frame we're yet to have a major disagreement over anything. I know they say ‘if you can't spot the crazy in the room, then you're the crazy’, but I'm pretty sure it's all good. This Christmas I decided to surprise everyone with personalised gifts.

One of the most heralded features in Windows Server 2012 (previously known as Windows Server 8) is support in Hyper-V for virtual machine replicas. If you're familiar with VMWare it's similar to Site Recovery Manager, for Xen you're probably looking at Remus, and Kemari for KVM (bear in mind that none of these products are necessarily exactly the same, but close enough). Virtual Machine replication across sites is very attractive. You get a lot of flexibility with minimal effort.

Despite being a topic that I've discussed extensively at work, over the last 12 months I've made no less than 4 attempts at organising my thoughts coherently into a blog entry. I hope that I've finally got it. In my mind System Administration falls under 2 general families; Enterprise and Jack of All Trades. To me enterprise administrators manage large systems, and are generally focused on their specific trade - be it systems or network.