19

Mar

Obtain Make and Model

Posted by   Published in Clients, Microsoft, Server 2003, Server 2008, Servers, Windows 7, Windows XP

Hi Guys, WallaceTech here.

In the past I have always used a mixture of WMI and VBScript to obtain the make and model of a workstation. A little tip, issue the command below in a DOS window.

wmic csproduct get name, vendor

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15

Mar

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-020 – Critical

Posted by   Published in Clients, Microsoft, Server 2003, Server 2008, Servers, Windows 7, Windows XP

Full tech note in the link below

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020

Vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2671387)

Published:Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Version: 1.0

Executive Summary

This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to an affected system. By default, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is not enabled on any Windows operating system. Systems that do not have RDP enabled are not at risk.

This security update is rated Critical for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section.

The security update addresses the vulnerabilities by modifying the way that the Remote Desktop Protocol processes packets in memory and the way that the RDP service processes packets. For more information about the vulnerabilities, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) subsection for the specific vulnerability entry under the next section, Vulnerability Information.

Recommendation. The majority of customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871.

For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update immediately using update management software, or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.

See also the section, Detection and Deployment Tools and Guidance, later in this bulletin.

Known Issues. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2671387 documents the currently known issues that customers may experience when installing this security update. The article also documents recommended solutions for these issues.

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17

Feb

HP iLO Mobile App

Posted by   Published in Hardware Vendors, Hewlett-Packard

 Hi Guys, WallaceTech here.

For those of us out there who use iPads and iPhones and also work within a HP envrionment. HP have relased their Apple app for connecting to servers via ILO. Fantastic!

LINK

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2

Jan

MAC OSx: Use Apple Wireless Keyboard On Windows With Full Functionality Using Apple Wireless Keyboard Helper

Posted by   Published in Apple, MAC OSx, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP

Hi guys, WallaceTech here.

Here is a link to the Apple Wireless Keyboard Helper which will allow you to use your Apple keyboard under MS Windows. This will allow the Apple specific keys to be remapped back to Windows one. Having now used an Apple keyboard I am somewhat hooked on them now and may well purchase one for my Windows machines.

LINK

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19

Dec

Virtualisation technologies: hits and misses of 2011

Posted by   Published in VMware

 Good article by a fellow colleague Stuart McHugh

LINK

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14

Dec

Powershell – Update AD Attribute based on Group Membership

Posted by   Published in Microsoft, Powershell Scripts

Hi Guys, WallaceTech here.

Here is some code that will update an Active Directory attribute to users who are a member of a certain security or distribution list.

 get-qadgroupmember “SECURITY OR DL NAME HERE” | set-qaduser -proxy -objectattributes @{‘ AD ATTRIBUTE HERE’=” VALUE OF ATTRIBUTE HERE”}

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5

Dec

Exchange 2003 – Enumerating devices registered via html

Posted by   Published in Exchange 2003

Hi Guys, WallaceTech here.

I can not take the credit for this post but thought I would blog it anyway so that I had a permanent record of it. It has been a massive help to me and a fantastic bit of VBScript.  so kudos to Glen for this.  Basically if you need to know who is using Active Sync in your Exchange organisation then this is the script you need.  Take a read of the page from the link below

LINK TO VBScript

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5

Dec

Cisco – IP Helper-Address

Posted by   Published in Cisco

Hi Guys, WallaceTech here.

Using the IP helper-address command, a router can be configured to accept a broadcast request for a UDP service and then forward it as a unicast to a specific IP address, Alternatively, the router can forward these requests as directed broadcasts to a specific network or sub network.  Let’s say you have two VLAN’s as follows  VLAN10 = Servers VLAN11 = Workstations  So in VLAN10 you have your DHCP server but you are unable to obtain a DHCP address from any device in VLAN11  To resolve this,

Telnet to the switch and drop in to Configure Terminal

Conf t

Interface VLAN11

IP Helper-Address IP ADDRESS HERE OF DHCP SERVER

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5

Dec

HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2)

Posted by   Published in Hardware Vendors, Hewlett-Packard

Hi Guys, WallaceTech here,

Here is a link to the iLO 2 drivers, which if you have tried can be a pain to nail down

iLO 2 DRIVERS HERE

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5

Dec

Powershell – Export – Import Group Membership

Posted by   Published in Active Directory, Microsoft, Powershell Scripts

Hi Guys, WallaceTech here.

So I had an urgent issue today where I needed to export a list of AD group membership from a test network back in to a live AD system. To do this I used the two Powershell code below.
The AD Group Export

Get-QADGroupMember “GROUP NAME HERE” | Select-Objectsamaccountname | Out-File “c:\GroupExport.txt”

The AD Group Import

Get-Content C:\GroupExport.txt | Add-QADGroupMember “GROUP NAME HERE”

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