August 2008 - Posts
Hyper-V WMI: What VHD’s/Physical Disks Are Associated With a Virtual Machine? - by Taylor Brown
Very handy script by Taylor Brown I got a great question based on yesterday’s post (by the way my e-mail was blocking a lot of external messages that’s fixed now so I apologize to anyone I missed a mail from). The person was asking how they could figure out what physical disk a virtual machine is using when configured for passthough on the host… Well here’s the magic – I took it a little further and...
Portable PC Cinema
Korean designer Jin Woo Han recently worked up a brilliant concept design for what he calls the Snow Mobile Portable PC Theater . The all-in-one device would allow you to easily carry your desktop PC with you anywhere and then project computer-to-screen information onto any surface by simply detaching the unit's projector hood casing. Han goes on to detail the computer's various ergonomic marvels...
NASA Computer has become infected
http://msmvps.com/blogs/siljaline/archive/2008/08/27/houston-we-have-a-virus.aspx WOW, never thought I would see this...
AutoRuns for Windows
AutoRuns for Windows AutoRuns for Windows v9.32 By Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell Published: July 24, 2008 Introduction This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones...
Microsoft Launches ENERGY STAR Compliant Power Management Tool for IT Administrators
Software Enabled Earth : Microsoft Launches ENERGY STAR Compliant Power Management Tool for IT Administrators
New KB - KB953027
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953027 Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3 are not listed as supported platforms for software distribution, update management, or desired configuration management in Systems Management Server 2003
Minneapolis Trip
I am in Minneapolis this week for an IT Leadership meeting for our company. I was walking out of the hotel yesterday and noticed a Wells Fargo building right across the street. I had forgotten that Brian Mason and others lived in Minneapolis...so last night I called Brian and we meet up at a nice Irish Pub. I don't drink, but the food was GREAT. If you are ever in Minneapolis, stop by Keegan's...
Email Users when password is about to expire
I wrote this article some time ago but I never published on my blog. Make a few edits to fit your organization and desires (BOLDED TEXT are areas you need to change)!! You can download the code here (just rename the file as .vbs) So, here is the script (watch for word wrapping): '*******************Begin Code***** on error resume next Const ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD = &h10000 Const E_ADS_PROPERTY_NOT_FOUND...
WMI script to check for pending file rename operations
Tom Mills posted a great post on his blog about a handy wmi script to check fo pending file rename operations. http://blogs.msdn.com/tommills/archive/2008/08/15/a-handy-wmi-script-for-checking-for-pending-file-rename-operations.aspx '--------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Name: CheckPendingFileRenameOperations 'Programmer: Tom Mills/Microsoft Corp. 'Date...
Nice Blog to follow: Engineering Windows 7
Engineering Windows 7 This blog is about Engineering Windows 7 or E7 for short.
Anti-Malware Toolkit 1.03.125
Anti-Malware Toolkit 1.03.125 The Anti-Malware Toolkit will allow you to download all the "good/great" programs to help clean computers. It is just a simple program that you use to download all the good tools like Super Antispyware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, HijackThis, Spybot, Autoruns, CCleaner, LSP Fix, and others. That's it...but it allows you a single place to go and download all...
2010 Camaro
I have been very quite about the "official" news about the Camaro beginning production February 16, 2009. However that does not mean that I am not excited about it. If you have followed my blog any you surely know that I am a HUGE Camaro fan, as my prior posts show . I have posted many pictures of various "un-official" pictures of various concept Camaros on my bog and many have...
WSUS: Taking control with scripts
The WSUS Support Team Blog : WSUS: Taking control with scripts WOW, if this lives up to everything I "think" it should live up to, then this is going to be a nice addition to an Admin's Tool belt. This could be a huge step for WSUS and I'm pretty excited to finally see this coming out. Let's up it lives up to the potential!
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 Download the Guide
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 available for download
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is ready for download. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?PV=18:100:ALL:en:ALL
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