Microsoft Anti-Virus Exclusion List

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.microsoft-anti-virus-exclusion-list.aspx

Machine Password

Text file with list of servers - WindowsServers.txt

Grab the data

$CAITInfo = Get-Content .\CAITWindowsServers.txt | Foreach {get-adcomputer $_ -properties PasswordLastSet}

Filter and display

$CAITInfo | Sort-Object -descending PasswordLastSet | FT -property DNSHostname,PasswordLastSet

Grab Older than 30 days... which means either problem? or machine password not updating..

$CAITInfo | Sort-Object -descending PasswordLastSet|Where { $_.PasswordLastSet -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} |

FT -property DNSHostname,PasswordLastSet

To force a PC\server to reset machine password to AD (where not a DC)

nltest.exe /sc_change_pwd:lc.local

wonder if I can do that via powershell :)

ISA 2006 vs Cache Log vs liveupdate.liveupdatesymantec.com

So removing the ISA proxy @ work noticed while investigating who is still using the 'old' proxy.  Enable  reporting and the daily report for cache use always says "Information not available"

After thinking about  and then googling for the solution to this, didnt get any joy.

Logically it has to be what is set in the web proxy logging options. I remove a heap reduce the data in logs.
there is a options called 'cache information' , enabled that stuff now just need to wait till tomorrow to see if I have WIN.

reviewed the live log notice that' symatec live updates'   liveupdate.liveupdatesymantec.com are loggin as  cache information = 0x106
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa503433.aspx


0x00000002 Request includes the IF-MODIFIED-SINCE header.
0x00000004 Request includes one of these headers: CACHE-CONTROL:NO-CACHE or PRAGMA:NO-CACHE.
0x00000100 Request includes the CACHE-CONTROL: MAX-AGE, or CACHE-CONTROL: MAX-STALE, or CACHE-CONTROL: MIN-FRESH header.

not so cool.

Think I need to force caching of this website. off to investigate

vhd install windows 8

after downloading the window8 (and converting to usb stick )
Insert and reboot
Follow the installation wizard until you get to the point where to select the partition
Hit Shift + F10 to bring up a Dos prompt window.
Type diskpart and press enter. Then,
DISKPART:>create vdisk file=C:\vhd\win8preview.vhd maximum=20000
DISKPART:>select vdisk file=C:\vhd\win8preview.vhd
DISKPART:>attach vdisk
exit and refresh
choose the new disk, ignore any errors about unable to boot

consolidate empty AD sites

Excellent script to consolidate

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2011/02/11/consolidate-all-ad-empty-sites-into-a-single-sitelink-using-powershell.aspx

wmic “Invalid XSL format (or) file name.”

So on my windows 7 box trying to:

wmic product get /format:csv

produces a output:

Invalid XSL format (or) file name.

Located teh csv.xsl file in C:\windows\system32\wbem\en-US

Guessed that it was unable to locate the xsl format file...

so copied it to the local path and it worked !

Confirmed this with Process monitor :-(

It seems to be looking for the correct locale so I added a C:\windows\system32\wbem\en-US to C:\windows\system32\wbem\en-AU

since we all don't live in the US of A... :-|

Alternative options are:

I just copied to C:\windows\system32\wbem\en-US\*.xls to C:\windows\system32

Terminal Server Bug - windows 2003 - slow disk

Lol. just fun a sorting out a OS bug with Microsoft Support team.

Terminal server 2003 when there are lot of users logging on/off and you have group policy preferences enabled can cause large amount of folders\files to be written to the group policy\ history folder in the all users directory. All this added up to some rather slow disks

Winlogon.exe was polling all these files every 40 seconds or so, this cause the idle disk time to drop to 0% and queue length to shoot up. Once of the test were dir /s every few moment it would pause.

Detected with procmon, set on files only and all other filters removed. Then used the file summary to locate what is causing the large amount of queuing.

Solution: weekly deletes of ...users\all users\application data\microsoft\group policy\history\* sub folders