Author: camerontjoyce

Cameron Joyce is a full stack engineer, having experience with all aspects of on premise datacenter, virtualization, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and Cloud based *aaS technologies. Cameron Joyce has spent more than a decade working in managed services, and brings that experience to his role as a Sr Presales Engineer. Cameron Joyce now shares solutions to problems and new technology overviews through his blog and youtube channels.

by camerontjoyce June 5, 2017

Microsoft Exchange: Powershell Script to add a SMTP Address to all users.

Recently during an Exchange to Office 365 Migration a bunch of the mailboxes were not part of the default SMTPContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce June 2, 2017

ESXi VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere: A general system error occurred: Connection refused When starting Virtual Machines.

I had an issue the other day with starting a VM. It would DRS successfully, however fail with “A generalContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce June 2, 2017

Datrium ESXi Microsoft VMware vSphere Windows Server

VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapter: Is it really that much faster?

I asked the same question myself after reading a best practice guide from Datrium that suggested using the VMware PVSCSIContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce May 3, 2017

Microsoft PowerShell Windows Server

Windows Server Backup using Powershell.

I needed a script to be able to do an on demand backup of a windows server without installing 3rdContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce April 27, 2017

Microsoft PowerShell Windows Server

PowerShell script to fix VSS errors.

We’ve all had vss writer issues during backups. And many of us have all used the MS technet article toContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce April 21, 2017

ESXi VMware vSphere

How to fix “A general system error occurred: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault” When creating or Removing Snapshots in VMware.

Recently I had a bunch of virtual machines that started generating this error during Veeam backups. I hadn’t bothered toContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce April 4, 2017

Datrium DVX Software ESXi VMware

Manually adding hosts to Datrium DVX without the vCenter plugin.

I will be doing a full writeup later on my experience with Datrium DVX, but I wanted to make sureContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce March 16, 2017

Microsoft PowerShell VMware vSphere

Automatically clean up VMware snapshots using PowerCLI.

Something that every VMware admin who also uses Veeam has had to deal with once if not multiple times isContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce March 16, 2017

Microsoft PowerShell

Create AES secure passwords for use in PowerShell scripting.

Something that I’ve always wanted to get away from in my scripting is leaving passwords in plain text. It failsContinue Reading

by camerontjoyce March 7, 2017

Uncategorized

Get-Sysadminblog has it’s own GitHub repository!

We’re getting fancy! Our Git repository can be found here https://github.com/getsysadminblog/PowerShell The idea is to make community editing and sharing ofContinue Reading