Minding the gap between administration and development
So I just randomly came across this utility built into Windows 7 that simply sends or waits for a signal (message). This could be useful for batch scripts that need to wait for something to happen on a local (or remote) machine. Here is the help output from the command: C:UsersAdministrator>waitfor /? WaitFor has two … Read moreWindows 7 – WaitFor.exe
The Windows 7 Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) are available from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en#filelist The list of tools available in the RSAT download is here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/958830
Introduction PowerShell version 1 provided good integration with WMI using the Get-WmiObject cmdlet, allowing you to easily retrieve and modify WMI instances, and call WMI methods, but PowerShell v2 has taken it, and many other things, a lot farther. One of those areas is eventing, and not just WMI eventing, but responding to WMI events … Read morePowerShell: Getting started with WMI Events
Microsoft has posted some excellent, high-quality videos on MSDN Channel 9, that focus on training you in the big, new features of Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. Check these out! http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/
If you are using Out Of Band (OOB) Management in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 SP1 (or greater) to manage your Intel vPro clients, you may have noticed that computer objects are created in your Active Directory domain during provisioning of the Intel vPro firmware. These computer objects are created by the amtproxymgr … Read moreIntel vPro: Finding AMT Objects in Active Directory
If you are using Microsoft ConfigMgr 2007, you may be familiar with the ProgramFlags bit that controls the “Allow this program to be installed from the Install Software task sequence without being advertised” setting on a Program configuration. Someone on the MyITforum “mssms” mailing list recently asked how to disable this setting for all SMS programs … Read morePowerShell: Disabling Task Sequence ProgramFlags
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine asked me how I would determine a process’ CPU utilization as a percentage of total CPU time. I came up with this PowerShell code, but it’s not quite complete yet, because it doesn’t dynamically determine the number of cores that a system has. During the investigation … Read moreCode Snippet: Process Time as Percentage of Total CPU Time
Hello everyone, Since I’m not aware of any tools that visually log print server information, I wrote a script that parses the log entries from the system event log of a Windows 2003 print server. Apparently I never got around to posting this online, but I hope that someone is able to benefit from it. … Read moreWindows 2003 Print Log Parsing Script [PowerShell]
You may have come across the following messages in the execmgr.log file on your SCCM clients: Failed to open to WMI namespace ‘.rootccmPolicyMachine’ (8007045b) Failed to ConnectSettings for ICcmPolicyAgent in CSoftDistPolicyNamespace::ConnectToNamespace Failed to ConnectToNamespace in CSoftDistPolicyNamespace::GetMachinePolicy Failed to connect to machine policy name space. 0x8007045b Failed to connect to user policy name space CSoftwareDistPolicyMgr::GetSWDistSiteSettings failed … Read moreWMI Repository Corruption / SCCM Client Fix
I was using the 8.9.2.1002 iaAHCI driver (dated 08/07/2009) from Intel in WinPE 3.0, on a Lenovo T60 (and other models), and when I tried to browse the fixed disk (c:), I get this message: “The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that … Read moreWinPE 3.0 Storage Driver Issues