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 [...]

Posted on August 10, 2010 at 7:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on January 20, 2010 at 7:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 8:10 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on October 20, 2009 at 11:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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.

Posted on October 18, 2009 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on October 3, 2009 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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