Like most enterprises, we redirect our user’s personal files to the network. We do not, however, lock down the desktop. This leads to the possibility of a user leaving a lot of files on their desktop which could be lost. FilesOnDesktop.vbs creates an IE based warning message showing the user exactly what they will lose if they…
Remotely Enable RDP and Terminal Services
I hate installing a server only to find I forgot to enable RDP. This script, EnableTS&RDP.vbs allows you to remotely enable RDP/Terminal Services on a server or a workstation. Rename from .txt to .vbs. Tags: RDP, Terminal+Services, vbScript
Speed up WMP playback
I get some technical podcasts via RSS that I listen to on my PC using Windows Media Player. Did you know that you can change the speed that WMP plays? For spoken word, I find that pushing the speed up to 1.4. A 15 minute podcast is cut to under 11 minutes. Within WMP select view >…
Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool
I found today that you can run the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal tool interactively, by running “mrt” from the command line. I found this from Mark Minasi’s (http://www.minasi.com/) newsletter. I have heard both Mark Minasi and his associate Rhonda Layfield speak at CITPG meetings. Both are quite knowledgeable and engaging speakers. Mark, like many IT professionals, tends…
Query ExPlus
Timur Fanshteyn has created a very nice stand alone cross platform query analyzer. The file is a single executable 172KB in size. The only prerequisite is the .NET 2.0 framework. You can query SQL, Oracle, and any other database or file for which you have an ODBC or OLEDB connection string. http://blog.tfanshteyn.com/2008/01/query-explus-2028-is-released.html
Do the things you have to do
My father worked a job which paid well, but did not challenge him, and which had a lot of tedious paperwork. Hanging from the goose-neck lamp on his office desk he had this quote from Thomas H. Huxley (1825 — 1895): “Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do…
Unicycle Madness
Here we have Josh riding his unicycle with his left arm in a cast. How did he break his arm? Take one guess.
Internet Image Audit v 3
This is the third version of InternetImageAudit3.vbs, a script used by me to audit a user’s temporary Internet files in investigations of inappropriate Internet usage. This script creates an HTML file which displays images from a user’s Internet Explorer cache. It also attempts to create links to movie files in the cache. The images are sorted…
Enumerate the members of a Local Group
EnumLocalUserGroup.wsf is a script that allows you to audit the membership of a selected local group on a single computer, a list of computers, or an OU containing computers. Typically you will want to audit the Administrators or Power Users groups. Rename it from .TXT to .WSF (not .VBS). Windows Scripting Files allow multiple jobs within a single…
The Local Administrator Password Manager v 1.1
The local administrator password on our workstations and servers should be changed regularly, and when an administrator leaves the staff. There are many ways to do this: with scripts, Hyena, and others, but none of those let you evaluate what needs to be changed and what has been changed. I wrote the Local Administrator Password…