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 [...]
The following PowerShell script recipe will help you check a remote file based on a list of computers stored in a text file. A new PowerShell function will be created during the session which will be piped from the text file. In the following PowerShell example I will check if install.exe exists on the remote [...]
May 15, 2009 - 2:18 pm
Tags: bacjkup, outlook, Script, signature
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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 [...]
If you are managing a Windows Server 2003 file server than this add-on should be installed. Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration makes visible only those files or folders that the user has the rights to access. When Access-based Enumeration is enabled, Windows will not display files or folders that the user does not have the [...]
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 [...]
February 11, 2009 - 2:17 pm
Tags: package, Script, Scripting
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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
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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 [...]
September 12, 2008 - 6:56 pm
Tags: copy, ESX, file, managment, service console, ssh
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After installing VMWare ESX 3.5 hypervisor host server I would like to manage this system with SSH remotely. Server is manufactured by Dell and the DRAC mgmt card interface is available but I prefer to use SSH. SSH is enabled by default but disallows access for root. See my work log and screenshots how to [...]
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 [...]
August 3, 2008 - 5:47 pm
Tags: ext2, file, howto, linux, mount, system, Windows
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Since I am dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows Vista on my desktop workstation I am missing my linux volumes on Vista. I have three large 500GB SATA2 disks and one of them is partitioned and formatted with Ext2 linux file system. I have two options to read my linux volumes from windows: a) Explore2fs [...]