Grumble grumble – revisiting the WMI fix
DaleI work with some clever people, such as Mark W., who pointed out this Microsoft blog post WMI Troubleshooting Tips, which advised against deleting the WMI Repository. Rebuilding the WMI…
Must be talking about Diners Club.
This happened to me once. One of my previous employers insisted on the use of a Diners Club charge cardfor business travel. “The Card No One Accepts!”, we’d joke, as…
WMI has stopped working on some remote computers.
And I don’t know why. My strong guess is that it is related to one of the 10+ recent Microsoft security patches I’ve deployed to the fleet. (I’m looking at…
How CheckPoint SmartDefense broke Windows 2008 R2 DNS
Microsoft changed some part of DNS in Windows 2008 R2, as one of our customers found out when they upgraded their (Windows 2008 based) DNS servers to R2. Upgraded Windows…
PowerShellPack
Last Tuesday I blogged about the great free scripting tools from Sapien. Well here’s another set of free tools/modules/call them what you will, from Microsoft. The Windows 7 Resource Kit…
Primulas
Gardening Australia: Primula
Semi-regular web-link clearance – April 2010(2)
Using Alternate Credentials with WMI and PowerShell The other day I was reading a post on Tore Lervik’s site and noticed that he had written some PowerShell scripts that would…
Beer? Anything that it CAN’T do???
Anti-aging? Make mine a Pint.
One way to compare Group Policy settings
Use GPO Compare, which works, but I wouldn’t buy it in a pink fit. GPO Compare allows you to quickly compare settings between two Group Policies. And it works. I…
“God Knows”
Anonymous commented back of the 7 April, Who wrote this verse: I said to the man at the gate of the year, “Give me a light that I may go…