Posted on September 28th, 2007 by thehabgroup
‘this script from the console of a computer that’s configured to obtain
‘updates from a WSUS server. It will contact the WSUS server, download
‘and install any approved updates, and then reboot.
Set fso = CreateObject(”Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set objAutomaticUpdates = CreateObject(”Microsoft.Update.AutoUpdate”)
objAutomaticUpdates.EnableService
objAutomaticUpdates.DetectNow
Set objSession = CreateObject(”Microsoft.Update.Session”)
Set objSearcher = objSession.CreateUpdateSearcher()
Set objResults = objSearcher.Search(”IsInstalled=0 and Type=’Software’”)
Set colUpdates = objResults.Updates
Set objUpdatesToDownload = CreateObject(”Microsoft.Update.UpdateColl”)
intUpdateCount = 0
For […]
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Posted on September 27th, 2007 by thehabgroup
On a Windows XP computer (like every other Windows system) the %system%/system32 folders contains all the core operating systems files. These files are organized with subfolders of the %system%/system32 directory. Here are a list of the folders with the relevant descriptions:
Folder Name […]
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Filed under: Operating System
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by thehabgroup
Here is an example Cluster Log entry:
ERR Volume Manager Disk Group <Shadow Copy Disk Group>: LDM_RESLooksAlive: *** FAILED for Shadow Copy Disk Group, status = 0, res = 0, dg_state = 22
To get the proper error below, take the code in the log (decimal value) and convert it to text and then […]
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Filed under: Cluster
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by thehabgroup
Global Groups
Global security groups used to organize users who share similar network access requirements. Members of the global group can only come from the local domain in which you create the global group. Members of the global group can access resources in any domain in the tree or forest.
Domain Local Groups
Domain local security groups […]
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Filed under: Active Directory
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by thehabgroup
Client-side extensions are responsible for implementing Group Policy on the client computers.
When client computers are processing group policies client-side extensions are only loaded when needed. Here are the steps for a client computer to process group olicy:
Client computer gets a list of Group Policy Objects
Client then checks all the Client-side extensions and determines […]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by thehabgroup
Alerter
Service Name: Alerter
Executable Name: svchost.exe -k LocalService
Log On As: LocalService
Description: The Alerter service notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts.
Port Numbers used:
TCP: 2869, dynamic
UDP: 1900
Application Layer Gateway Service
Service Name: ALG
Executable Name: ALG.EXE
Log On As: LocalService
Description This subcomponent of the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) / Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)
service provides support for independent software […]
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Filed under: Operating System
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by thehabgroup
Here are the steps to download the Internet Explorer 6 setup file for network installation:
Create the folder “Windows Update Setup Files” on your C:\
Download a copy of ie6setup.exe from http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/ie6setup.exe
Save the file in the C:\download directory you created.
Copy and paste the following command in your run command line (Start -> Run):C:\Windows Update Setup Files\ie6setup.exe” /c:”ie6wzd.exe […]
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Posted on September 18th, 2007 by thehabgroup
As you are probably aware, a broken installation of Internet Explorer 6 can wreak havoc on a Windows system. So it may become necessary to re-install Internet Explorer. Based on how Microsoft designed Internet Explorer to be integrated with the shell of the OS it can e difficult to re-install.
Here a workable method to complete […]
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Posted on September 14th, 2007 by thehabgroup
It may seem strange but there are instances where there is a need to intentionally crash a Windows system to produce a memory dump. Memory dumps are useful when troubleshooting Windows system hangs, performance problems, as well as system problems.
Here are the steps to setup a Windows computer for a bluescreen of death:
Open the registry […]
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Posted on September 13th, 2007 by thehabgroup
How to Enable Tracing with Netsh
You can use the Netsh command to enable and disable tracing for specific components or for all components. To enable and disable tracing for a specific component, use the following syntax:
netsh ras set tracing Component enabled|disabled
where Component is a component in the list of components found in the Windows 2000 […]
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