Posted on Thursday, July 31 2008 by jamie
A few years ago I volunteered to teach an introduction to computers class to an ambitious group of parents ready to make a career shift to office jobs. I had little time available to prepare the training schedule and coursework and even less time to gather materials. This simple HTA combined with an autorun.ini on a disk creates a quick, easy to edit, easy to use, indexed, resource menu.
Posted on Friday, July 25 2008 by jamie
Microsoft should give the SysInternals guys a raise! Jon Schwartz and Mark Russinovich (SysInternals) have created a nice little tool to recreate the "runas..." shell context menu key in Vistas registry. The lack of this function (when using appropriate security settings) has been one of my daily points...
Posted on Monday, July 14 2008 by jamie
Microsoft Social Bookmarking is still in preview release, but I'm ready to drink the blue kool-aid and give it a shot. Here's how you can add a link to your Graffiti CMS posts (like the one at the bottom of this post). 
Posted on Monday, July 07 2008 by jamie
This script displays USB device info available in WMI. I really didn't need this script -- I think it was used about five times -- but, writing HTAs is so much fun they almost make us script kiddie Sys Admins feel legit.
Posted on Monday, July 07 2008 by jamie
This script, designed to run on an XP client, copies font files from a common namespace share and publishes them on the local machine. I had a bit of trouble finding a way to publish fonts using VBScript, so I resorted to rather brute-force methods. The script works for every valid system font format (at least all that I could test), but may not always populate the office font cache. Steps are: Copy new fonts; create registry entries; clear OS font cache. May require reboot.
getnetfonts.wsf
Posted on Friday, July 04 2008 by jamie
Okay, It's been done before a hundred different ways, and if you have group policy and a new AD schema at your disposal, it's probably just a bad idea.
Posted on Thursday, July 03 2008 by jamie
Here's a little script I built to run before client migration. Instead of touching hundreds of machines and checking for custom drive and printer mapping, this script builds a general list on a network drive and saves details on the local machine. It also builds in a remap batch for post migration desktop support.
Posted on Wednesday, July 02 2008 by jamie
I'm going to start posing old admin scripts from my personal collection. Most of my "inspiration" was from the Hey Scripting Guy! Section of the TechNet scriptcenter.
Here's an old vbscript in wsf format that just cleans up Performance logs. It's most useful when scheduled with AT command.
Posted on Wednesday, July 02 2008 by jamie
With Server 2003, Server 2003 R2 and Server 2008 Enterprise editions you basically get 1 baremetal host copy and up to 4 virtual copies. With ESX it's 4 virtual instances. When more than 2 virtual instances are needed, it is currently is less expensive to invest in enterprise edition. Standard edition...
Posted on Monday, June 30 2008 by jamie
The virtualization underdog, Microsoft, just released Hyper-V. This couldn't come at a better time - early. On the tail of deploying a production ESX server, I need to turn around and deploy a hypervisor HA cluster solution as a proof-of-concept development environment. -- The MS partner program reduces...
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