PowerShell Network Ping Monitor
So my job has me travel around to remote sites and over see setup of events that can support several hundred computer systems at three to five sites. Once the setup is complete I...
Tagged: administration tools
Getting Hard Drive Serial Numbers using scripts
Recently I had been working on a way to retrieve hard drive serial numbers without having to go around and look at each drive. We have to use them for reports and we use...
Active Directory based authentication for Linux and Mac
Centrify Express is an Active Directory based authentication and single sign-on to cross-platform systems. It used to integrate Linux and Mac systems with Windows. Centrify Express installs a program called the DirectControl agent on...
Using Windows Problem Steps Recorder
I don’t know if anyone has used this before but this little hand dandy tool that is part of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. It may be part of Vista I am just...
Specops GPUpdate is a nice Active Directory tool for remote administration
Specops Gpupdate is a FREE tool that makes your life as an administrator much easier by providing operations such as update of Group Policy Objects, remote restart, wake on lan, WSUS client update and...