<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>RDR-IT - Maintenance</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/maintenance/</link><description>System administration, virtualization, security and tools for IT professionals.</description><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:31:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://rdr-it.com/en/tag/maintenance/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Exchange puts a DAG node into maintenance</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/exchange-puts-a-dag-node-into-maintenance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/exchange-puts-a-dag-node-into-maintenance/</guid><description>Scripts to run on one of the DAG nodes.
Script locations:
Exchange 2010 : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts Exchange 2013/2016 : C:\Program …</description></item><item><title>SQL Server: reduce the size of the transaction log</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/sql-server-reduce-the-size-of-the-transaction-log/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/sql-server-reduce-the-size-of-the-transaction-log/</guid><description>In this “troubleshooting” tutorial, we will see how to reduce the transaction file (ldf) of a SQL Server database.
Normally this file is truncated during server backups …</description></item><item><title>Hyper-V cluster: maintenance of a node</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/hyper-v-cluster-maintenance-of-a-node/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/hyper-v-cluster-maintenance-of-a-node/</guid><description>Intro In this tutorial, I will explain how to put a node (host) in maintenance on a Hyper-V Cluster.
This tutorial can be applied to all Windows Server clusters. It …</description></item><item><title>Restart an RDS server member of a farm</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/restart-an-rds-server-member-of-a-farm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:34:10 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/restart-an-rds-server-member-of-a-farm/</guid><description>This script allows you to reboot a server RDS member of a farm with a broker session by closing the still open sessions.
Use :
Change the two variables $ServerBroker and …</description></item><item><title>WSUS: maintenance and optimization</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/wsus-maintenance-and-optimization/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/wsus-maintenance-and-optimization/</guid><description>Intro In this tutorial, I will explain how to maintain and optimize the installation of your WSUS service to keep it in optimal operating condition.
If your WSUS console …</description></item><item><title>Reboot ILO</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/reboot-ilo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 03:00:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/reboot-ilo/</guid><description>The ILO management card on HP servers can be restarted independently from the operating system.
1. Go to the ILO web interface and then to Information 1 / Diagnostics 2 . …</description></item><item><title>Optimize the space of SQL Server databases</title><link>https://rdr-it.com/en/optimize-the-space-of-sql-server-databases/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 03:00:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rdr-it.com/en/optimize-the-space-of-sql-server-databases/</guid><description>In this tutorial I will show how to optimize the space used by databases.
The optimization of the space is done in two stages:
On the database: internal data optimization …</description></item></channel></rss>