After getting a Windows XP Virtual PC up and running I was able to test my last project’s update feature in XP…and it didn’t work. From those of you who have Vista like me know that the user profile is no longer under Documents and Settings, but Users.
My original code didn’t take into account spaces [...]
For a while now, I’ve been meaning to make a diagnostic application for my coworkers while they are on the road so that we in IT can see what’s going on in their computers. But the problem has been getting the time to make it and deciding what best way to make it in (compiled [...]
I’m starting to use Visual Studio and programming more and more in C#. Mostly this is because I’m finding that creating tools with scripts for my end users to be too cumbersome for them to use. PowerShell scripts are not easily launched by a double click, you need to allow scripts in the first place [...]
February 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm
For you Network Admins out there that are running a network with both Cisco and Dell switches. These two commands do basically the same thing.
Cisco:
show mac-address-table
Dell:
show bridge address-table
January 21, 2009 – 9:43 am
Recently I was needing to create a bunch of random passwords for users and I needed to have it work in Powershell.
Since Lee Holmes’ comments, I’ve updated the file and function with some of the suggestions he gave. Unfortunately, the <# #> help syntax throws a bunch of errors in V1, so I had to [...]
A quick search around Google reveals that there are many an application that will remove the protection from Word documents. However I question the trustworthiness of these programs, what if they install key loggers, or trojans, or some other nefarious code? So I did some research and scripting to make my own document cracker, and [...]
A recent project at work required me to merge two XML documents together and thus this was born, MergeXML. It’s written for Powershell and thus can be used for a variety of things. From a simple command line utility to an entire login script (which is why I need it).
MergeXML
February 19, 2008 – 1:29 pm
Where does the weeks go? I have no idea. I just know that each day ends as soon as I wake up.
Break down of a week.
Sunday
Church (2-3)
Homework or Rest (Remainder)
Monday
Work (8)
School (2)
Bible Study (2-3)
Homework or Rest (Remainder)
Tuesday
School (8-9)
Work (2-3)
Tae Kwon Do (1)
Homework or Rest (Remainder)
Wednesday
Work (8-9)
School (1-2)
Tae Kwon Do (1)
Homework or Rest (Remainder)
Thursday
Work (6-7)
School (3-4)
Tae [...]
January 29, 2008 – 12:16 am
Today I realized that most of the addresses that had issues with incorrect locations of the network map may have been related to old and expired reverse DNS entries. Apparently part of our supernet DNS wasn’t being deleting old reverse lookup entries. Of all the misplaced network nodes, the entries seemed to all corresponded to [...]
January 25, 2008 – 7:40 pm
I’ve been searching high and low all over the internet for a “network mapper”, something that will find all the nodes on the network, and tell me where they are plugged in on which switch. However even after weeks of searching and even having started my own solution, there is still no hope.
This quest first [...]