Archive for the ‘Windows Server’ Category
Exporting Service Settings on Windows Server
The netsh command can be used to manage network interfaces, control routing and one of the lesser-used features that I’ve seen are to import and export service settings with Windows Servers. This can be especially helpful if you need to normalize data for import into another Windows server or to be normalized for use with [...]
In: Windows Server · Tagged with: dnscmd, export, export settings, import, netsh, servername, Windows Server, zonename
Setting up CHAP on LeftHand w/ CLI
LeftHand Storage uses the cliq command line for configuring their devices. cliq isn’t necessarily interactive and so we end up needing to specify the username, password and IP of the device with each command (although you can setup a key as well if you’re going to be doing automated tasks). One task that I’ve found [...]
In: Unix, Windows Server, Xsan · Tagged with: admin, assignvolumechap, chap, CLI, cliq, Command line, deletevolume, getLocalVolumes, lefthand, modifyraid, modifyvolume, Password, username, volume
RDP from the Command Line
Let’s face it, connecting to Windows Servers is a must for many of us. And some of us want to do so programatically. I did look at populating the CoRD database in a previous article. But now, luckily CoRD has recently introduced a command line interface for managing just these types of connections on the [...]
In: Mac OS X, Windows Server · Tagged with: Command line, cord, Mac OS X, programatically, RDP, Remote Desktop, script, scripting, Shell, windows
Windows 7: Disable USB Storage
In a number of environments, especially MPAA or DoD environments (in the US we rank nuclear bombs right up there with pilfered copies of unreleased movies, especially ones that cost a lot of $ to make), users should not be able to mount any local removable storage. While Group Policy is typically the best way [...]
In: Windows Server, Windows XP · Tagged with: disable USB, Windows 7
Show Desktop Icon for Windows & Windows 7
Ever delete the Show Desktop icon from Quick Launch? One of my favorite features of Windows, it is a big part of my everyday use of the OS. So when I accidentally deleted it I had to figure out how to get it back. And it wasn’t nearly as easy as I would have thought [...]
In: Windows Server, Windows XP · Tagged with: recreate, scf, script, Show Desktop, windows
AFP548 Article on CommVault/GroupLogic
I did a quick little article on the GroupLogic offering for Mac OS X and CommVault. Find it here: http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20100112101925439
In: Mac OS X Server, Windows Server · Tagged with: afp548.com, commvault, GroupLogic, Mac OS X
Lots of new stuff: Command Line Wiki Integration
The Mac Commands page and the PowerShell Commands page are both now wikis and users with accounts on this site can edit them. Additionally I added a number of new pages worth of commands, FTP Commands, Windows Commands, Final Cut Server Commands, Amazon S3 Commands, Podcast Producer Commands and Xsan Commands; both of which are wikis [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment, Unix, Windows Server, Windows XP, Xsan · Tagged with: Command line, Mac OS X, powershell, scripting, windows, xsan commands
Shadow Copy from the Command Line
I was recently building some scripts to alternate shadow copy storage locations (long story). In so doing, I found that pretty much anything I would normally do in the GUI is exposed at the command prompt using the vssadmin command. The first and one of the most important things that you can do is list [...]
In: Windows Server · Tagged with: create, list, shadow copy, shadows, shadowstorage, vssadmin
That Wacky Adobe Security Flaw
Information about the exploit: Wacky Security Flaw Patch thyself: Adobe’s Mac patch site Adobe’s Windows patch site That is all I have to say about that.
In: Mac OS X, Mac Security, Windows Server, Windows XP · Tagged with: adobe, exploit, flaw, Mac OS X, threat, windows
Home Robotics
Technology is a beautiful thing. Especially for those of us that hate to do the dishes, get up to change the channel or even walk over to grandma’s house to say hi. For those things we have (respectively) dishwashers, remote controls and of course the telephone. I’ve talked about Z-Wave for awhile now and automating [...]
In: Business, Windows Server, personal · Tagged with: irobot, iscooba, positronic brain, robotics, roomba, z-wave
