Freeware Utilities

I’m always looking for more utilities to add to my arsenal for scripting, automating and generally freeing up time for other tasks, like sipping a fresh coffee ;^) Over the past few months I’ve been pointed to, or found, four more sites chock full of tasty utilities. AnalogX has a varied collection covering network, system, programming, even [...]

Disable Prius Beeping when in Reverse

If you have a Prius, there’s a good chance you are annoyed by the constant beeping when you put the car in reverse. I can understand if it’s heard outside the car, since it’s almost completely silent when in electric mode, but it only alerts the passengers in the vehicle. Since selling my Corvette, I’ve [...]

Search Fails for Some Outlook or OWA Users

Due to a recent power outage at a client site, their Exchange search catalogs became corrupted. The issue at hand was that searches in Outlook or OWA only resulted in showing results prior to the outage. To confirm that this was the case, I opened the trusty EMS and ran this command on an affected individual. test-exchangesearch username [...]

Surveying a Linux System, Part 3 – Usage

This is the last in my Linux survey trifecta, examining current usage, plus a bit of troubleshooting. As with both the hardware and software posts, you may need to run some of these as root and your mileage may vary, since not all distros are alike. Show a list of recent logins # last Process [...]

Script to Export a Mailbox to PST

With an occasional need to export a user mailbox to PST for archive, I decided it would be useful to be able to call up a script and save myself some time and mouse clicking. Should you wish to give the script below a try, copy it into a text file and change the extension to [...]

Surveying a Linux System, Part 2 – Software

A few days back, I listed  some Linux commands for getting hardware information. Now onto software and operating system information. Again, you may need to run some of these as root and your mileage may vary, since not all distros are alike. List version of Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS # cat /etc/redhat-release List version of SuSE # cat [...]

Software in my Binder

Earlier this year I covered what items I carry in my backpack, this time it’s about what software I carry in my soft-sided TechNet folder. Of course there’s the usual operating system and application disks, but there are a number of rescue and utility disks as well… Operating Systems and Applications Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 2003 [...]

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