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Just another IT guy.

Reset Terminal Server Grace Period

April 28, 2010

Client Machines Delete the following key which will force client to obtain new license from server. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing Server 2000/2003 To reset the 90 day grace period on the…

IIS Migration Tool

November 30, 2009

Had to migrate a few sites today from Server 2000 to Server 2003 IIS6. Microsoft has a tool called iismt that will assist in migrating. First thing I…

bcdedit – GUI'fied

November 29, 2009

If you’ve ever modified your boot partition information before in a Vista+ computer, you’ve realized Microsoft does not store this in boot.ini. Instead, it’s edited via a command…

Microsoft Windows Service Pack Blocker

November 29, 2009

A blocking tool is available for organizations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update. This tool can be used with: Windows…

svchost – What's running inside it?

November 29, 2009

I’m sure when you look at your running processes in Task Manager you see a few svchost.exe processes running. I’m also sure that you’d like to know what…

Disk2VHD: Create a virtual disk of live system

November 27, 2009

Another great tool from Mark Russinovich at SysInternals called Disk2VHD I just discovered. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk…

Get serial number of AIX

October 28, 2009

Get the serial number of an AIX system. #!/bin/ksh # # Get serial number of AIX server; # # October 28, 2009 Rich Kreider # ser_num=`lsattr -El sys0…

Terminal Services Idle Timeout

June 25, 2009

Are the users getting the popup message that says: Idle timer expired : Session has been idle over its time limit. It will be disconnected in 2 minutes.…

Get Process CPU Usage Using WMI

March 10, 2009

I recently blogged about another method to obtain a process' CPU usage via Command Line: Get CPU Usage of a Process from Command Line Here’s a quick command…