One of my favorite websites in the days of Windows 2000 Server was a project from a group of system managers from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; it was titled “Real Men Don’t Click”, and it was dedicated to accomplishing tasks solely using the command line interface (CLI). [...]
I’m always a fan of more queries and peaks at what is going on in my AD domain, especially at what is happening on the workstations. I was working on some WMI queries to get information about network interfaces using the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class, and thought about promqry.exe. Promqry is a tool provided by Microsoft to [...]
Scheduled tasks are plentiful in most environments. Managing them is typically a nightmare. You have some running to truncate and copy off logs someplace, or others to run a proprietary backup utility to dump a copy of your Quickbooks data; whatever the reason, over time there are more and they are everywhere. Typically, you want [...]
“We have been working diligently to recover the information that we can. Currently if your VPS is not responding it is best to consider that all data and information is lost…” This is the start of a message posted on VAServ’s website, a UK-based provider of virtual private servers. VAServ uses HyperVM, a virtualization application [...]
