I have issues at clients with disparate home folder settings, manually re-directed special folders (i.e. My Documents or My Pictures), etc.
When trying to suddenly standardize such settings – perhaps for terminal server projects – there is difficulty and questions surrounding what should be changed and whom it will affect…
This script is something I threw together [...]
I recently was working with a client that had an odd, yet steady issue – remote control of desktop sessions from the 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Manager mmc console would disconnect the remote user when the administrator ended the session shadow.
After some research related to the issue, I found this to only occur with Windows XP [...]
I’ve been in an automating mood lately – old school, batch script style.
Here’s another one I cooked up to relieve you of tedious steps needed to turn off all advanced networking features in
Windows 2008/Vista/7.
As a bonus, I added before and after logging for fun.
As a side note, I was not able to cook up a [...]
This tool was mentioned to me by another consultant – it is a fantastic way to get a quick overview of an unfamiliar environment.
Scans for replication, ntp, site, subnet, dns, and all kinds of issues!
Find it here -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dd7a00df-1a5b-4fb6-a8a6-657a7968bd11
Ever muddle through Microsoft KB 816042?
Ever wish there was an easy way to make all those registry edits?
I have…so I did something about it - a simple batch file will do nicely.
Tested this just the other day…batch file dump below (minus the ***s)
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@echo off
rem http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042
rem How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server
rem Uses [...]
I have seen several broken instances of autodiscover and other Exchange 2007 web services.
Generally fixing these involves…
Verifying internal and external DNS matches (for a single server setup)
autodiscover.domain.com -> cname to mail.domain.com
mail.domain.com -> points to actual exchange server
Make sure this matches on the outside to make things smooth -> external dns should point to those public [...]
I recently discovered a way to make use of the runas command in Windows 2003/xp (not sure about vista).
Using a special switch “/netonly” allows the credentials to be passed on without them being verified first.
Example 1 (excel)
runas /netonly /user:domain\administrator “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe”
Example 2 (sql mgmt studio 2008)
runas /netonly /user:domain\administrator “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\ssms.exe”
See excerpt below…
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http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2382043.php
“All [...]
His site provides impressive VBS examples for group drive mapping, printer mapping, and other scenarios.
Perhaps it is becoming more outdated due to the rise of PowerShell, but I have yet to work at a place that uses PowerShell exclusively.
http://www.rlmueller.net/index.html
Below are a few examples I have created by working on his examples.
Here’s Richard’s logon3.txt example that [...]
Ever been working with a lab of computers and have to do something manually as a certain user?
I have…and I got tired of logging onto each one. So I got creative and found some tidbits of customized group policy templates to make this.
AutoLogon
This custom administrative template will allow you to set auto logon for windows [...]
Ever been working at a customer site and realize someone has really messed with home drive permissions?
This batch file can help!
Credit to - http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=5640
The text file can be renamed with a .bat extension and includes comments on how to use it.
SetPerm
Be careful with this – use at your own risk.