September 2012 – Alan's Blog

Abort SCCM Restart

Posted on September 7, 2012September 7, 2012 by Alan

Sometimes you get a panicked call saying, “I got a message saying my computer will reboot in 5 minutes”. StopSCCMRestart.cmd allows you to abort the reboot on a local or remote machine. It works by killing the SMSCliUI.exe task. The task will be eventually restarted, but this should give your user a chance to reboot…

ShareEnum Alternative

Posted on September 7, 2012March 9, 2015 by Alan

The SysInternals ShareEnum.exe program relies on the NETBIOS browser list and chokes in very large domains. I wanted a program which let me to audit share permissions with greater flexiblity. ShareEnum.wsf is an alternative to ShareEnum.exe. It relies on WMI to enumerate share permissions. The WMI share security decoding was written by Chris Wolf and found in a 2006 article at redmondmag.com….

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