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Register PC on Brother Scanner
A client reported that his PC was disappearing from the Scan to PC list on his Brother 7065 multi-function device every day, apparently after logging off. When he logged on again, if he would do a...
View ArticleList Listening Ports
I need this so often and always have to go looking for it. To list local listening ports with the owning process ID: netstat -ano | find /i "listening" And my go-to summary of commands from the Petri...
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MaxFocus Script to Check for CryptoWall Infection
The CryptoWall ransomware virus is getting a lot of attention lately but this is one angle I haven’t seen covered: how to get an alert in the MaxFocus (formerly GFI) dashboard if a machine is...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Run a Program Once
I want to deploy CryptoPrevent Portable using the MaxFocus RMM tool. CryptoPrevent sets up software restriction policies to keep programs from running in certain locations. However, it doesn’t actually...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 Post-Install Tasks
I made these notes almost a year ago after upgrading a Windows XP Home machine to Windows 8.1. Some still apply today. Note that this is about a non-domain install and assumes you want to run a daily...
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Testing an Outbound Port from Your Web Host
Recently I decided to install the WP Mail SMTP plugin into a WordPress blog to get around the shared server being blacklisted. The idea is to get WordPress to send emails through an external mail...
View ArticleTeamViewer Silent Uninstall and Re-Install
I approved an upgrade to TeamViewer 10 and lost TeamViewer access to a machine from the MAXfocus dashboard. I need to downgrade TeamViewer from 10 to 9 to re-gain compatibility with MAXfocus. I only...
View ArticleChange Service Logon Across Network
I needed to change the Advanced Monitoring Agent service to log on as a domain user rather than as LOCAL SYSTEM. Besides changing the service logon, the domain user must be granted Log On As a Service...
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Set Up Intel AMT for Remote KVM
I want to be able to make out-of-band KVM connections to computers running Intel AMT 9 (vPro). I initially thought this would require the $99 VNC Viewer Plus from RealVNC, but it seems to work fine...
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Run Ninite Pro with Nice Logs from MAXfocus
I’ve deployed Ninite Pro to update non-Windows applications on computers that I manage. I’m running it in silent mode but I wanted some decent logging so I can review what it did. This is especially...
View ArticleNTFS 55 Errors on VolumeShadowCopy
A Windows 7 x64 workstation logged the following error at least once a day, apparently whenever a Volume Shadow Copy was requested, e.g. for a backup: Log Name: System Source: Ntfs Event...
View ArticleInstall MAXfocus Agent over Network with PsExec
I blogged earlier about how to Install GFI MAX Agent via Startup Script. But what if you want to quickly deploy the agent without rebooting the machine? And someone is logged on to the machine so you...
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Increasing the WP-Mail-SMTP Timeout
WP-Mail-SMTP is a popular WordPress plugin that lets you configure your site to send email through an external SMTP host rather than directly from WordPress. It does this by sending special parameters...
View ArticleIsolate a Svchost.exe Process in Task Manager
On my Windows 7 SP1 x64 workstation, I had a svchost.exe process that kept growing in size. In Task Manager its Commit Size was up to 2.5GB before I rebooted. I was shopping for additional RAM but then...
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Restore Server 2012 R2 to a ThinkCentre M93p Desktop, Take 2
Time for my annual test of restoring a server to a desktop. This year is almost identical to last year, but I want to have one list of steps, so I’ll repeat much of that text. I’m restoring Server 2012...
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HitmanPro.Alert Blocks .NET 3.5 Install
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine, I wanted to install .NET 3.5, but it kept failing with “Access Denied” whether I did it from the Server Manager or using a dism command. With the server...
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Slow File Transfer over Cisco VPN with Tomato QoS
I recently upgraded my Linksys E2000 router to Tomato Firmware v1.28.7507 MIPSR2Toastman-RT K26 VLAN-VPN. This includes quite a few default QoS rules. Today I connected to a customer network using...
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Updated PowerShell Script to Show Windows Update Settings
Last year in this article, I posted a PowerShell script to display Windows Update settings. I’ve enhanced that script to show two additional values and to optionally list all pending updates. By...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Change Windows Update Settings
I’ve already posted a script to show Windows Update settings. What if you want to change the settings? In particular, I needed to be able to use MAXfocus Site Automated Tasks to change the...
View ArticlePowerShell Command to List Users and Password Expiration Dates
Here from TechNet is a quick PowerShell script to list enabled Active Directory Accounts and their password expiration dates: Get-ADUser -filter {Enabled -eq $True -and PasswordNeverExpires -eq $False}...
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