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Script Samples

Tom Thrush — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:44:10 +0000

There are times when I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for just the right syntax for a command or even the correct command to get the job done. Here are four I put to use in the last few months…

Change Printer Spooler Service Recovery options to Restart
sc failure spooler reset= 60 actions= restart/600/restart/600/restart/600

Backing up an MSDE Database
osql -E -Q “BACKUP DATABASE mdss TO DISK= ‘C:\BB_DB_Backup\mdss.bak’”

Copy Database and then Appending with Date
copy t:\plandata.mdb C:\PlanDataBackup /Y

For /F “Tokens=1-8 Delims=.:/ ” %%a In (‘Echo %Date%’) Do (Set All=%%d-%%b-%%c)
@For %%a in (“plandata.mdb”) do rename %%a “%%~na-%All%.mdb”

Deleting Old OWA Logs
forfiles -p “C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1″ -c “cmd /c echo del \”@FILE\” & del \”@FILE\”" -d -21

Welcome to…

Tom Thrush — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:41:58 +0000

This is the second of a group of IT templates I’ll be posting from what I’ve created or gathered/modified. This one is your basic “Welcome to Company” sheet that I tyically hand out to new employees. It’s only a page long and surprising it’s actually been read more than once (unlike the typical stack of papers handed out by HR that largely goes ignored).

The template is in PDF form, but if there are requests for an editible format (Word), I’ll post a that as well.

Company Infrastructure Template

Tom Thrush — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:44:19 +0000

Here’s the first of a few templates I’ve gathered or made throughout the years. The Company Infrastructure template.

This “catch-all” document can be a central repository for network, system and vendor information, something to use to survey the environment for an audit, or when handing off to / indoctrinating a new IT person. Not all of the entries may be relevant and there will be some line items that need to be added, but hopefully this help you get started.

Here’s an abridged overview I created for a client, much of it has been gutted and fictious information added to obfuscate the company.

The template is in PDF format, but if there’s a request for something editable, I will make the Word format available as well.