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One of the things I always struggled with is creating a backup of my Microsoft Outlook signatures. This is the first time I found how to create a backup of them.
The solutions is simple and easy. You could script this and automate when doing client/profile migrations.
Start –> Run and go paste this %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures
That’s it. You can copy these files to whatever location you want.

January 31, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Tags: dism.exe, enable, howto, Script, wirelessnetworking
Posted in Microsoft | No comments
When installing Windows Server 2008 R2 out of the box the configuration does not support wireless networking. If drivers are available Windows will find them with plug and play installation but not enable the functionality. Since Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 supports booting from a VHD file from local disks I am now [...]
January 31, 2010 - 11:50 am
Tags: delete, file, Powershell, remote, Script
Posted in PowerShell | No comments
The following PowerShell script recipe will help you delete a remote file based on a list of computers stored in a text file. New PowerShell function will be created during the session which will be piped from the text file.
Generate C:\Scripts\Active_Computers.txt with computer names.
[PowerShell] function delete-remotefile { PROCESS { [...]
March 25, 2009 - 2:43 pm
Tags: commandline, IE, Script
Posted in IE | 3 comments
Here is my script and commands I used to install Internet Explorer 8 with a cmd script. I used this script to perform manual installation but it can also be used to deploy the package with software distribution.
IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /nobackup /norestart
The script will install IE, without user interaction, create no uninstall package and does not [...]
February 11, 2009 - 2:17 pm
Tags: package, Script, Scripting
Posted in Microsoft | No comments
Microsoft Visio is a common tool in a enterprise. The price tag for a single installation is significantly so you don’t want to add this to your default client installation. Microsoft provides a viewer for Visio drawings which are shown in IE.
The Visio 2007 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created [...]
January 13, 2009 - 10:29 pm
Tags: agreement, BgInfo, eula, license, Script, skip
Posted in BgInfo | No comments
BGInfo is very useful when managing dozen of Windows Servers in physical and virtual environments. I even managed to get this tool deployed to all client computers at work. It has a huge value for support personal.
Since SysInternals has been taken over by Microsoft it now shows a “License Agreement” windows. Sure this is not [...]
August 15, 2008 - 7:05 pm
Tags: 2008, cmd, Hyper-V, Script, Windows
Posted in Windows Server 2008 | No comments
Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. With help of ServerManagerCMD.exe I will install the Hyer-V role.
What is ServerManagerCMD.exe?
Server Manager in Windows Server 2008 provides a single source for managing a server’s identity and system information, displaying server status, identifying [...]
If you need to create 5 or more of Virtual Port groups on a vSwtich and you don’t want to use the VI client than logon on the service console and run the commands below.
For creating a new Virtual Port Group use:
esxcfg-vswitch -A NAME-TO-GIVE vSwitch0
Assigning a special VLAN to this a Virtual Port Group:
esxcfg-vswitch -v [...]
March 27, 2008 - 10:21 pm
Tags: 2007, 2445, calendar, ical, office, outlook, publish, rfc, share
Posted in Office 2007 | No comments
Are you looking how to share your calendar with co-workers, customers or any other email contacts who are not sitting in your Exchange organization? Today I shared my Outlook 2007 calendar which is sitting on a Exchange server with Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar Sharing Service.
The published calendar is based on the iCalendar exchange standard which is [...]
March 4, 2008 - 9:51 pm
Tags: answer, automate, dcromo, domain controller, howto, installation, Script
Posted in Microsoft, Scripts, Windows Active Directory | No comments
The following example will help you to quickly provision an Active Directory domain in vm or other lab environments. The provision of domain controller can be controlled and reproduced same way as before. Copy the text below and create new text file named ad.txt.
[DCInstall]AdministratorPassword =P@SSWORD1CreateOrJoin = CreateDomainNetBiosName = 70-296NewDomainDNSName = 70-296.netRebootOnSuccess = YesReplicaOrNewDomain = DomainSiteName [...]
February 6, 2008 - 8:39 pm
Tags: cpuvt, dbs, Dell, enable, omconfig, omreport, poweredge, Script
Posted in Dell | 7 comments
Last year I installed three Dell PowerEdge 1950 1U servers and since than I used them in production as VMWare Server hosts. Couple times when creating and migrating the guest machines I received a warning that my CPU was VT capable but not enabled. To enable this option reboot the Dell server, hit F2 to [...]