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Cloning VM’s with VirtualBox, LVM and Snapshots!

Recently I wanted to setup a development environment to test some Active Directory setups. Basically I wanted a whole stack of domain controllers and client machines across multiple sites, domains and forests to see how they tick and replicate between each other. Easy enough to do, just create a bunch of virtual machines using your [...]

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Mmmmmm Beeeer…

Wow it has been a while since I have posted… an in that time I’ve been coding, building a house and brewing some beer For a first time brewer i’ve posted up the basic steps required to get started as it had been a little difficult to find just simple pics and descriptions when I [...]

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0.0.5 Release of CactiWMI

It’s been a while since I released an update and there have been a number of templates since 0.0.4 so packaged them up ready for consumption Below are some examples of what we now have! So we have some standard Windows stats such as system calls, context switches and process/processor stats. We can now also [...]

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Painting the 300ZX

So I have finally started painting the Zed and figured I would give a bit of an update seeing as after the site redesign I didn’t port any of the old posts across. Picked up a stack of supplies.   Hooked up the air compressor.   Got out the sander.   And got to work! [...]

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New release with Exchange Monitoring!

It’s been a little while since I have released anything but after a bit of work I have a new version which now supports monitoring Exchange! Previously I had monitored Exchange myself via WMI using a custom PHP script but now this can all be done with a reasonably straight forward set of templates and [...]

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