How to set file/folder permissions on a remote computer.
DaleSay, for example, you want to grant permissions on a remote folder. One way to do this is use the Microsoft XCACLS.VBS utility. Go read the Microsoft article I linked…
Windows Mobility Center
is one of those utilities which 3rd party vendors, such as Lenovo, offered. If your laptop vendor didn’t offer it, you were s*** out of luck. Thank you Microsoft for…
I was reminded of a certain blogger.
Though I can’t see her riding a Honda Shadow 250
For performance reasons, Windows was lying to me.
The creation date for a file I was creating, was 8 days out. This was what I was trying to do: IF logfile older than 7 days THEN 1. delete…
SMS Client Health Startup Scripts, and multiple domain maintenance.
The downside of multiple domains, is that I have to maintain multiple scripts for SMS Client Health Check. Until today. I used the sThisDomain variable I created for the Check_Domain…
Your IT security threat is in the tent with you.
Most of the time, some people say 80%+, your IT security threat is in the tent with you (ie. someone who works for you) . Based on experiences at different…
Automatic Teller Machine Insider Fraud
It happened a long time ago, an bank fraud which saw 4 people lose their jobs. Fraud convictions also resulted. One bloke I heard, went overseas to “wash” his reputation…
Time Zones Revisited
As a co-worker pointed out, Microsoft stores time zone information in two places, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones this is where the time zone database is stored. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation this is the current…
SMS Client Health Startup Script, and logging
The pilot of the SMS Client Health Startup Script has gone reasonably well. So far the script has found about 30 broken PCs. But the logging has been a bit…
Our DNS server lies to me again!
By accident, I found out that my DNS server was lying to me again. Last time I caught it out was when it was serving up the wrong IP addresses…