Just deployed a few apps with WPKG. I have to say I love it. Client checks in with server, if it needs software, it installs. If it needs to uninstall, it does. Super cool. This is going to save me so many months of repetion. I would say it is free, but my boss pays [...]
For people who need a gui to help with all of those pesky command line arguments, there is a gui version from the good people at MS. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160891.aspx Grab that little sucker and then look up the wikipedia article on robocopy to refresh your memory on what the switches mean.
Need to merge two files and keep only newer files? robocopy c:\folder1 c:\folder2 /E /XO Copy files between two servers and maintain permissions robocopy c:\folder1 \\server\sharename\destination /E /sec Robocopy is sweet because you can use it to sync folders, copy permissions, copy encrypted files, pretty much every file copy operation you can think of. Just [...]
Are they ever going to call it blocklisting and smurf listing or something? This black and white thing generates some bad press. ANYHOW… SRI and SANS came up with this sweet predictive blacklist fun. It reminds me of what Symantec used to do with their free log reader software, Deepsight . Symantec used to give this [...]
Pidginis listed on my favorite free software page as a do it all instant messenger. There is an AWEOME plugin for it called OTR for encrypting your messages. When you are using it you can tell it to turn off logging or leave it on. GO HERE to get it. Look for the link specific [...]
For anyone wondering how to start up the Hyperic agent in windows as a service – Don’t bother with the whole resource kit install and running the manual process. go to command line switch to Hyperic directory run hq-agent.exe -i Now open services, and edit to tell it to restart on failure. (it fails a [...]
Sequoia View makes a visual representation of your hard disk. The bigger the square, the more disk that is being used. After installing, change the colors by hitting view>colors and OK. Notice how the squares are grouped is how you tell the path. Right click and hit explore to get in and delete things. Look [...]
Another argument about this today. This is a giant weak spot in a clustered redundant Exchange 2003 environment. WINS is super easy to run and really easy to replicate. Here is an MS article updated 5 months ago to show you why you should do it. If you run a big environment you are asking [...]
This log me in free software kicks total butt for remote desktop control. . The best thing I’ve found so far – build a web link and email it to someone for installation. They don’t need an account or anything. You just go to your logmein console on their website, hit advanced over on the [...]
Yesterday we hooked up 2 vps’s with gate.com. In some ways it sucks, you have to install everything manually. For a lot of people I’m sure that is fine. TONS of people can’t get past this and quit. Most of the negative reviews of http://www.gate.com had this condition. I was entertained while going through hoops to [...]