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ServerCare is a website dedicated to the finding the most (cost) efficient way to run systems to simply  ‘get the job done’.  And of course a platform to discuss all the great technology and methodology I get to play with on this quest.

On these pages you’ll find tips and tricks gathered over time, or sometimes things recently figured out as I stumble upon them. You’ll find technical articles on recent Microsoft software, scripts that will help your day to day tasks as an administrator, thoughts about the IT business and management, project management, networking but also multimedia, programming and anything else that sparks my interest.

I enjoy developing my skills and like to keep a broad view of what’s going on in IT, there is so much more fun to be had in the IT business that it seems a waste just to focus on only one area! That’s why you will find such a variety of subjects on these pages. Lately my focus is on virtualisation, storage and clustering, primarily using Microsoft Solutions.
 
The reason these pages are in English rather than my native tongue: Dutch, is simply to appeal to a wider audience.

Regards,

Paul Weterings

 Summary
Check your UPS, and act!
I was disappointed when I recently installed my brand new APC UPS. Not with the hardware, but with the software; it only 'supports' shutting down one system, even though you can link 6 devices to the UPS. Since Windows 2008 Server now sees the UPS as a laptop battery, we can do something about that...
Windows Storage Server 2008
Two hot features of Storage Server 2008 are explained in some more detail; the iSCSI target and Single Instance Storage.
Cluster Shared Volumes and Hyper-V
Windows 2008 R2 now comes with a new feature: Cluster Shared Volumes. Here you can read about the advantages as well as how to set it all up.
exchange metrics
VBScript to extract InformationStore size statistics from Exchange 2003
This handy VBScripts will help you pull information from any Exchange server in your organization to enable you to create stunning graphs. Convince management that you need more store by scaring them with the daily InfoStore growth!!
Building Exchange 2007 on a Hyper-V cluster
Running Exchange 2007 100% Highly available, including the client and hub roles; using Hyper-V in combination with Exchange clustering on Windows 2008 servers.
Implementing G729 and G723 on Asterisk
Someone recently asked me how to implement G729. Since I actually had some notes on that, I decided to, rather than only sharing this with him, share them with all of you.
ISDN Call statistics from your Cisco router using SNMP
If you are into VOIP using Cisco equipment. You'll understand how important it is to have good metrics. This acrticle describes how to simply pull the information needed using SNMP, leaving it to you to format it into anything that will be more readable.
How to distribute Hyper-V virtual machines on a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster
Now that you have your brand new Windows 2008 Cluster running Hyper-V "Highly available". You don't want all those VM's running on only one node do you? This article tackles the tricks you need to know.
Windows 2008 Clustering and ISCSI-3 Persistent Reservation
This article explains what exactly this ISCS-3 Persistent Reservation is that Windows 2008 Clustering requires, and why it is there.
XMLTV: getting the EPG guide to map to your channels
It's confusing, how exactly do you map the channels in a xmltv guide to the programs in your media application. And where can I find this information in the registry?
Adding Google Analytics to your SharePoint 2007 Website
How to add Google Analytics to SharePoint server
Running Hyper-V on a cluster
Two articles describing how to build a Windows 2008 infrastructure for a two node fail over cluster, and running Hyper-V on it. The first article focuses on building a SAN using iSCSI. The second on creating the cluster and getting Hyper-V to run on it.
Prince 2 Project Brief template
If you're into project management, you'll appriciate these Word documents.
Printing from Vista 64 to W2K3 print server
How to add 64bits printer drivers to a Windows 2003 (32bits) print server.
XMLTV EPG grabber for Dutch TV
If you are Dutch and are using some kind of media center type application, you might have a need for a good EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) grabber. As I was not satisfied with the other software out there I programmed this small grabber in C#, it gets its data from tvgids.nl
Sending E-Mail from VBScript
This small article explains how often VBScipts sending E-Mail do not work as expected, and how to resolve that.
Configuring TrixBox with a standard ISDN card
This article describes what different options you have to get a regular ISDN card to work with Asterisk voice over IP. This article focuses on using the mISDN drivers.
Advanced Group Policy Management 2
This article focuses on using WMI filtering when applying group policies.
Advanced Group Policy Management
How to use a GPO with a customized ADM file to force a specific date and time format.
Does my Bios support Hyper-V?
This article shows you how to figure out if the Bios in your system actually supports running Hyper-V
Monitoring IP devices using VBScript
A simple VBScript that can be used to warn you when a certain device goes offline. The script pings all devices, and sends an E-Mail when things go bad.
Use VBScript to get Exchange 2003 statistics
This article explains how to use VBScript to key certain key statistics out of Exchanged server 2003, and into Excel.
Project management, expectation management
Insights in how less commonly practiced methodologies such as expectation management can impact projects.
Hyper-V won't start because of localisation
How to fix the issue of not being able to start Hyper-V (pre- Hyper-V RTM version). "The Hyper-V service is not available"
Exchange 2003 shared hosting
What if you would like to host several companies on one single Exchange server, each company having their own E-mail addresses and seperate from eachother? It's possible: but with some trickery. This article describes all the ins and outs.
Asterisk and a simple ISDN card
How to get Asterisk to work with a simple 10 Euro OEM ISDN (b) card.
Cisco protocol specific metrics
Using MRTG in combination with NBAR to create nice graphs on how much FTP, SMTP, HTTP, or other protocols are going over your lines.
Trixbox/Asterisk: the basics
How to get your very own Voice over IP PBX to work in no time. This article gets you on your way explaining the basic things you need to know to get Trixbox up and running with your IP phones and an internet Viop provider.

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I am available on a free-lance basis in the Netherlands for ICT technical and architectural tasks with emphasis on, but not limited to, Microsoft environments and Cisco networking environments. Experience with many industry standards such as Citrix or VMWare. Further more I can assist your company in interim management (ITIL Knowledge) as well as project management (Prince 2) roles.

Wether you need Microsoft consultancy, custom scripting, programming (C#) or networking assistance. A second opinion, project or people management, or just simply some extra 'IT hands & brains' from someone with over two decades of IT experience and work experience at fortune 500 companies as well as smaller offices, make sure to check my details below.

See if my profile matches your company, and let me assist you at very reasonable hourly rates. With Servercare you get over 20 years of IT experience in management or hands-on technical expertises. Primarily focused on Microsoft solutions, but with broad knowledge on networking and open source solutions.

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