If you’ve ever tried to audit the speed and duplex settings of NICs in a windows environment, I’ll bet you’ve been frustrated by the fact that you can’t seem to find the answer to this anywhere in the registry or WMI, etc. etc. Yet you know it has to be recorded somewhere because the little [...]
If you’ve ever tried to audit the speed and duplex settings of NICs in a windows environment, I’ll bet you’ve been frustrated by the fact that you can’t seem to find the answer to this anywhere in the registry or WMI, etc. etc. Yet you know it has to be recorded somewhere because the little [...]
If you administer more than, say, 3 computers in your network, you’ve probably wanted to perform some operation against all of them in quick fashion. For example, you may get a frantic call some morning from your IT manager that goes something like this: IT Manager: “I just got a call from my friend Bob, [...]
Some researchers found a way to steal encrypted data off of hard disks by freezing the RAM in a computer – allowing them to read the keys used to encrypt the data out of RAM. Apparently this can be accomplished using nothing more than a can of compressed air to chill the chips and freeze [...]
If your users suddenly begin complaining of ‘page could not be displayed’ errors when accessing OWA (or any web page hosted with IIS, for that matter) – it could be that they’re victims of your IIS server refusing connections due to low available nonpaged pool memory.
If your users suddenly begin complaining of ‘page could not be displayed’ errors when accessing OWA (or any web page hosted with IIS, for that matter) – it could be that they’re victims of your IIS server refusing connections due to low available nonpaged pool memory.
Sometimes the quickest way to accomplish something in Windows is with a simple batch file. The best example would be when you want to run a command and append the contents of it to a text file for later perusal. Occasionally, I’ve had a desire to run multiple commands and append them to the same [...]
Using the adfind and admod command line utilities, it is easy to delete disabled users in bulk from your Active Directory. Read on for an example of how to do this.
I’ve made a minor face lift to the front page of the blog. Hopefully now the category scheme and the purpose of the blog will be a little clearer.
Normally, when you pattern match using a regular expression in Perl, your expression will match as much as possible. For example, $match = "hello to you world what in the world were you thinking"; $match =~ /hello.*world/; $match is now "hello to you world what in the world" If you want to make this match [...]
