I had a need to display the IP configuration information on the default TTY console login screen of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver. Basically we needed a way to see what the IP was set to without having to login. There were a few articles (like this from offbytwo.com) out there about ways to do […]
Ever had to change a domain administrator’s password and had the sinking feeling that some bozo had setup a Windows service to run as that user. If you only have a couple servers it isn’t that big a deal to check each manually, but if you have a lot it can be a problem. […]
If you’ve ever had to put a large number of 2008+ Windows Terminal/Remote Desktop servers in “drain mode” using the gui admin tool, you know it can be slow and tedious. Faced with doing this on a Saturday night for about 30 servers I decided to make life a little quicker and easier by building a […]
I’ve written several PowerShell scripts to help customers adjust permissions to their directory structures when migrating from other file servers(Linux/Samba, Novell OES/Netware, etc). Part of these scripts includes assigning ownership for the user. While this tends to take a long time quotas and file reporting are worthless if the administrator that copied everything is assigned […]
I was recreating a login script for a client that mapped a drive to the location of their redirected My Documents. Because they were in the middle of a migration the My Documents could be in a different spot depending on if a user had been migrated to a new environment or not. So I […]
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