Yosemite can't copy our DNS backups into a test server because it has a different name. That's quality program design right there.

So here's a helpful set of three commands that does exactly that:

john: so it looks like this hastily assembled script actually works
paul: does it change it
john: yep
john: clears all the masks out
john: i can hear you being impressed all the way over here

[Need to delete a CPUID mask while a VM is powered-on? Read on!]

For as much as I've loved learning Perl, there is a slight issue with it not being available out-of-the-box for Windows Server systems. Our production environment at work is ALL Windows so that makes for a slight issue trying to support these handy little scripts I've been using on my local workstation. Fortunately, Microsoft has seen fit to catch up to the early 80's and had introduced an awesome new scripting shell called Powershell. It's installed by default in Server 2008 and both Exchange 2007 and VMware Virtual Center have providers for it.

I took a crack at writing a better 90-day deletion script for our email system (since that's the policy) and it was pretty simple to crank out: