MAC Address Lookup
Spent a little time at lunch today creating a MAC lookup tool for my site. There is now a new menu, Tools, which will have some of the…
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Just another IT guy.
Extract KB Number from WSUS Excel Report
While reviewing my WSUS reports (exported to Excel) I found that I could streamline extracting the KB article from the exported report using a basic formula in Excel.Here's…
Crypto Ransomware CTB-Locker (Critroni.A)
Move over CryptoLocker, there's a newer and meaner kid on the block. CTB-Locker, or Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker, makes use of the Tor ((Tor is free software and an open…
SharePoint 2013: 8 Steps to Migration from Sharepoint 2010
Eight steps to migration of SharePoint 2013 from SharePoint 2010. Install SharePoint 2013 (don’t forget language packs) Copy customizations over to the new server Run configuration and configure…
VMWare ESX 4.1 Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 Checklist
I'm starting to plan for an upgrade of VMWare ESX 4.1 U1 to ESXi 5.0 and since ESXi 5.0 makes this possible to do an in place upgrade,…
Ingress is on iPhone
I’m in Resistance. I first played this when I had my invite and was using my Samsung Galaxy S2. I never really got into it, but maybe I’ll…
Total Editing Time in Microsoft Word
So I stumbled upon a feature (that's been around for a long time) for myself today when looking at the properties of a Word document. I saw this…
CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician Sample Questions
I took the following sample questions and got 60% correct. I feel stupid now. Question 1. The technician receives a secured email reporting that a physician is unable…
Windows Update Error 800B0001
I got the following error attempting to check for updates against my WSUS server from a Windows 7 system. Looking closer at the WindowsUpdate.log file (C:windowsWindowsUpdate.log), I see…
Funny Microsoft, Reeeeaaaal Funny.
You have skipped obtaining driver software from Windows Update. Are you sure I’m sure of you being sure?
Cannot open database “SUSDB” requested by the login.
I'm receiving this error message on my WSUS 3.0 SP2 server. The proposed fix ((http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e918a191-ef6d-4c4b-b83a-7a4ae20a5217/wsus-30-sp2-will-not-run-after-installing-update-2720211?forum=winserverwsus)) indicates to perform the following. Download the KB2720211 from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2720211Open Regedit, and change…
Printer jam? I can fix that.
Having my first sip of coffee and walking to the office printer to fix a jam and thinking of how badly I’d like to remake the Printer Scene…
WSUS3 SP2 Service Problem
I was checking a few systems this morning and came across this glorious error.Easy enough to fix, right? Just go to Administrative Tools > Services and restart the…
Get Last Windows Update Installation Date
This command will give you the last date and time Windows updates were installed on a computer. reg query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\windowsupdate\auto update\results\install /v LastSuccessTime
Calculate Date Differences in MySQL
There is a function in MySQL that will calculate the number of days between two given dates: datediff Example mysql> select datediff('2014-06-09','2014-07-07'); +----------------------------------------------+ | datediff('2014-06-09','2014-07-07') | +----------------------------------------------+ |…