How to Join a Debian Linux Server to a Windows Domain
I've added a few servers to a test Windows domain and some of those servers include Debian Linux operating systems. Here are the basic steps on joining a…
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Rich
Just another IT guy.
Windows Command Line Ping Sweep
A brutally basic ping sweep from Windows command to look for hosts on a subnet. for /L %x in (1,1,254) do @ping -n 1 -w 25 192.168.0.%x |…
Get Username from SID or SID from Username Windows Command
Get username from SID: wmic useraccount where sid='S-1-5-21-1207125215-1711319079-1335354557-1316' get name Get SID from username: wmic useraccount where name='username' get sid
Raid and IOPs Cheat Sheet – Excel
I made this 5 years ago in Excel and it was pretty popular. I think there are some errors in the math formulas that were pointed out for…
Calculator
I mean, who hasn’t written a calculator application? Not much explaining to do here…
Userlock – Restricting Number of Remote Desktop Sessions Per OU
This was a rather interesting project I took on. The project was created to monitor and restrict how many Remote Desktop sessions were permitted to logon based on…
TheWatcher
An excercise in FileSystemWatcher in .NET that was used to create an application to monitor a given folder (and subfolders) for specific file/folder operations such as Creation, Deletion,…
Allscripts ProEHR User Account Unlock
A utility I wrote to show locked user accounts in the Allscripts Professional EHR database and allow the user to unlock selected accounts.
Acrobat Key Finder
A small tool to I wrote to find the Acrobat installed keys through version 11 of Acrobat.
PDF2TIFF
I wrote PDF2TIFF to facilitate monitoring of a specified folder location for new PDF file drops and then converting to TIFF automatically using Ghostscript and storing the TIFF…
Forgotten Scripts
Came across a script I wrote some time ago. Sitting there in my user directory was patch.cmd. As I find my scripts, I'm putting them in Git for…
How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10
Sorry, Cortana -- not everyone likes you. =) Launch the group policy editor by pressing Windows + R, typing gpedit.msc into the box, and pressing Enter. Navigate to…
How to fix Windows 10 Explorer "Working on it…" slowness
This is caused by Windows Search / Indexing that times out waiting for old or stale network resources. To resolve this you can delete the cache files: %AppData%MicrosoftWindowsRecentAutomaticDestinations…
Upgrade or Replace BlackArmor NAS110 Drive
My BlackArmor NAS110 came with a 1TB 7200 RPM drive. I ran out of room so I stole a 2TB drive from a new computer I ordered and…
Windows Uptime Command
I generally use a quick command like net statistics server|more on a Windows machine to quickly grab the uptime. I decided to put together a small uptime utility…