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Month: April 2008

Check for Broken Sids

Posted on April 28, 2008April 26, 2009 by Alan

Apparently I have not posted the lastest of this one elsewhere on the web. Alan ========  ‘Check4BrokenSids.VBS ver 1.5 ‘4-6-03 Alan Kaplan for VA VISN6 alan at akaplan dot com ‘This script searchs for unresolved SIDS on a level of folders iterated below ‘a specified starting point. It was written to identify home directories where ‘the…

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Windows Easy Transfer Companion (Beta) Part II

Posted on April 16, 2008May 10, 2008 by Alan

Windows Easy Transfer Companion works, but I had some trouble with PC to PC over the wire transfer, with it crashing before completion.  I found the best results are to disable anti-virus, disable firewall and create the file on a network share.  For free it is a bargain.  This has been in beta for nearly a year.  I…

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Script to change SA password

Posted on April 16, 2008April 26, 2009 by Alan

‘Alan Kaplan for VA VISN 6 ’11-16-06 ‘This script changes the SA account password on a SQL Database ‘I use the excellent freeware program SQLRecon to get this information, ‘http://www.specialopssecurity.com/labs/sqlrecon/ Option Explicit Const adOpenStatic = 3 Const adLockOptimistic = 3 Dim sqlRS, strDBServer Set sqlRS = CreateObject(“ADODB.Recordset”) Dim message, strPW Dim oCP,oService,strServiceState, strStartType Dim WshShell…

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