Windows
Create UEFI booting flash
run diskpart and: select disk N clean create partition primary format fs=fat32 quick active assign list volume exit Copy Win10 files from ISO to flashdrive.
Powershell + Remote
Run powershell on the remote PC and run it: Enable-PSRemoting -Force Set-Item wsman:\localhost\client\trustedhosts * Restart-Service WinRM Test the connection from the local PC: Test-WsMan COMPUTERNAME Run the remote command: Invoke-Command -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME -ScriptBlock { COMMAND } -credential USERNAME
Get-ADUser scripts
Get users with the specified manager: Get-ADUser -Filter { Manager -eq “CN=Ivan Ivanov,OU=Users,DC=contoso,DC=com” } -Properties Mal, Title | ft Name, Title Do not forget to run before: import-module ActiveDirectory Get info about users which are in the group: Get-ADGroupMember groupname | Get-ADUser -Properties Name, Title | ft Name, Title
Certificate + Add a private key
Copy-pasted from: http://www.entrust.net/knowledge-base/technote.cfm?tn=7905 Entrust Certificate Services Support Knowledge Base Audience: General Last Modified: 2011-01-18 08:42:02.0 TN 7905 – What are the steps to recover the private key of an SSL certificate in an IIS environment? Problem: The SSL certificate is installed but the private key is missing. What are the steps to recover the private […]
WSUS + Repairing
You can try to connect to Windows Internal Database with SQL manager(run as admin) by \\.\pipe\MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query link. In my case I found SUSDB with Pending repairing status. I took it offline and then online after 2-3 attempts. I could backup it and shrink but this didn’t help – the DB was about 6Gb. So I […]
Sysprep your Windows OS for more than 3 times
Copy-pasted from: http://system-center.me/miscellaneous/sysprep-your-windows-os-for-more-then-3-times/ It can happen, the need of re-syspreping an already syspreped machine, why ? maybe you lost your Image master. so.. you running the setup process, adding the changes you want, relocating the XML answerfile, running the sysprep with /generalize switch.. the process is running for few seconds and then the sysprep window is […]
Windows 10 + Sysprep + Generalize + Error
I couldn’t run Sysprep on Windows 10 because some packages were incompatible with Sysprep. But you can do it without the option Generalize. Fix: Run Get-AppxPackage -AllUser | Where PublisherId -eq 8wekyb3d8bbwe | Format-List -Property PackageFullName,PackageUserInformation – you will see what the user blocks running Login with this users and run: Remove-AppxPackage -Package <invalid packagefullname […]
My python 2.7 script to parse wheather data and speak it
# -*- coding: utf8 ## encoding=utf8 import urllib import re from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import os import subprocess import codecs import sys from setupcon import setup_console setup_console(‘cp866’) sys.getdefaultencoding() reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding(“cp866”) # Get the page sock = urllib.urlopen(“http://tvoj.kharkov.ua/help/weather/”) htmlSource = sock.read() sock.close() #print htmlSource # soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlSource, “html5lib”) string = soup.h1 results = soup.find_all(‘span’, limit=10) […]
Exchange 2010 + Changes in renewing certificates 2016
Copy-pasted from: http://brattex.blogspot.com/2012/09/renew-exchange-2010-certificate.html Renew Exchange 2010 Certificate generates a binary file – conversion to base64 tips When renewing an SSL certificate for Exchange 2010, the process is fairly straightforward and there are plenty of sites to give advice on how to do this. Two sites to consider would be Technet and Go Daddy and the steps are summarised as […]