So, I’ve received a few (Read: a metric ton) of comments regarding if my eBook and Webservice is done yet.

In short: No.

In long: Yes, but no, well sort of.

So I had a lot of bad things that went down in my personal life. I was laid off, the wife and I separated, etc etc. So mentally I was able to devote as much time as I had hoped to this endeavor – though I do have a decent ground work laid for it.

But there’s another problem  now.

Being unemployed for as long as I was, I had to sacrifice some things to get by. I had to sell the servers I used for my virtual SCOM infrastructure. So now I don’t really have a machine capable of running OpsMgr + all the additional VMs I need to setup all of the various environments to testing and deployments to.

Did you want to help? I’d love it if you could!

What I need right now to finish all of this:

A proper server. If anyone has one for sale, or to loan to me for awhile (1 year or so), I can get this whole thing back up and running.

I’m looking for something like a Dell Poweredge T610 – a dual processor capable machine with plenty of ram and disk. It doesn’t have to have the extra proc (Though that would be awesome) or be fully populated with ram and drives – but it would be helpful.

If you have one for sale or loan, and would like to be my very best friend, please send me an email to jpavleck.servers@gmail.com – I’ll get back to you ASAP and be sure to credit you with saving these 2 projects. And, as a special gift, when I release the “pro” version of the Web Service Connector, you and your company will receive a free license to it – as well as support – for free! This will easily be a $5,000 value!

So lets see if the community out there can rally around and help me get this done!

Oh, and likewise, if you’d rather send me $2,500 so I can just buy the server, well I can do that too. Send an email to the same place.

I’m fairly certain nothing will come from this post, but I’m putting it out there just in case there’s some kind soul who can help me out.

Thanks,

Jeremy

 

As I add more and more things to this site, WordPress ceases to be able to properly handle it all – it’s time to move up to a more suitable CMS. So upon the advice of fellow #powershell member Sepeck, I’m moving it all over to a nice and shiny Drupal install.
With a proper CMS, you’ll have a much easier time accessing all of the scripts, downloads, tips & tricks, and contests offered here – and I won’t have to fight with the system so much to get it to do what I want it to do. You’ll also find an awesome time saver; the combined OpsMgr Feed Aggregator – featuring all of the major players in the OpsMgr world on one page.  Like today, it would have been covered with a solid wall of “R2 beta is out!”.

Additionally, there is something that’s in enough of a ready state to show you. It’s in a fairly rough state right now as I steal time to clean things up, but I present to you the Pavleck.NET OpsMgr Wiki. It’s based on the wonderful Deki Wiki software, and I’m quickly falling in love with it. And thanks to some PoSh goodness by Jaykul, you can see the get-help for all of the Command Shell cmdlets. Right now I’m using the free version until I figure out just how active and used it is – the Pro version is only $99 though. Although that’s not the most expensive price in the world, it will take a little time for me to budget – unless you’d like to help. Any donations received go towards the improvement of this site AND awesome prizes to give away to you all! Feel like donating? Awesome! Please click the button below:


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