Bulk add TXT DNS Record to Zones in Windows
Had more than a handful of domains I needed to add TXT record for in Windows DNS (2003). I did it using dnscmd from 2003 Toolkit and command…
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Free Windows 8 eBook: Introducing Windows 8, an Overview for IT Professionals
Free eBook from Microsoft Press. Introducing Windows 8 An Overview for IT Professionals by Jerry Honeycutt Download Now! (PDF) Continue reading
Convert PDF to TIFF Using Ghostscript Command Line
I'm starting to research for a project I'll be working on involving PDF and TIFF multi-page documents and conversions. Here's a commandline to convert a PDF to a…
Allow Pings to Windows XP using netsh
Here’s a quick note on allowing Pings (ICMP Echo Response) to your Windows XP from command line. You must be administrator. netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable Quite…
Windows tree Command Example
A quite often forgotten Windows command, tree, is useful when documenting and looking at a folder layout. What is Tree? Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive…
Windows 8 Installation Screenshots (Developer Preview)
This gallery is of Windows 8 Develop Preview installation (in a virtual machine).
Batch Rename Files and/or Folders in Windows Command Line
Batch rename files using Windows command line. for /d /r %x in ("*") do pushd "%x" && ren *.eml *.msg && popd Recently restored about 18k emails in…
Wallpaper Location in Windows 7
This drove me nuts for a few minutes trying to find the location of the Windows 7 wallpaper as I was trying to migrate a profile to a…
Transparent Command, Putty, Powershell and PuTTY Windows
I modified the code from NothinButNet's Glass project on CodePlex to run continuously and monitor for the following windows: PuTTY (putty.exe) Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) Powershell (powershell.exe) Telnet…
Powershell Active Directory Searcher Boiler Plate
I'm sure I'll be using this more and more in the coming months as I familiarize myself with Powershell. Below is a template or boilerplate for Active Directory…
How to Extract User Objects from Active Directory in Powershell
This is a podcast from David Hoezler’s YouTube channel that reviews User Object extraction via Powershell.
List Mapped Drives of Remote Computers using Powershell
This Powershell script is pieced together from a handful of source (noted in script) that will return mapped drives of remote computers of ALL the users. # cooked…
A few notes on Guest Virtual Machine Memory Ballooning
Looking over some of my Windows 2008 R2 servers, I notice via Task Manager that their memory is 90%+ quite often. Using Sysinternal’s RAMMap tool, I can quickly…
Enable Hyperthreading or 2nd CPU in Windows XP
I came across this on a VM the other morning. It seemed that assigned the VM 2vCPU and then installing XP Professional didn't install the correct HAL/Kernel. I'm…
ToolTip: Portable Windows Port Scanner
I came across a nice little tool while searching the other day. This tool, called YAPS (Yet Another Port Scanner) is portable and works well (tested on Windows…