Category Archives: Scripts

Excel 2003 hung or long load time for network files

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

After applying Microsoft Office File Validation for Office 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2501584 users report Excel 2003 hanging when opening documents from a network share, or long load times. Microsoft released a fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570623 but requires the user to be an administrator of their local machine. … Continue reading →

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List Local Admins from list of computers

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

I came across this Blog posting: Brian Desmond, while looking for a simple script to list all the users that had Local Administrator rights to their computer.   DumpLocalAdministrators.vbs (click “show source” below)

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Fixing Public Folder replication issues from Exchange 2003 to 2007 or 2010

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

During a transition of Exchange 2003 to 2010, we ran into replication issues in some of the Public Folders. The issue was tracked down to Categories that contain a bad character. Instead of going through all the entries manually, I … Continue reading →

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Fix for imaged based clients not showing in WSUS console

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

WSUSMissingClientFix.bat

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Boxee Box web remote

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

I created a simple web remote to control the Boxee Box. (Limited due to api: http://developer.boxee.tv/Remote_Control_Interface ) ML Boxee Box Web Remote: Download Note: changing the commandiframe to display:block; will show the the iframe used to send the commands. If the … Continue reading →

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Copy large files using ESEUTIL

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

While looking for a better method to copy large 100+ GB files to a removable disk, I came across this blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/05/08/slow-large-file-copy-issues.aspx ESEUTIL (the exchange tool) can be used to copy one large file at a time, the preformance is around … Continue reading →

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Show passwords behind asterisks in browsers

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

I found this little script that when pasted into the address bar, it will reveal the password hidden behind the ***** for the current page. Tested in the latest versions of Chrome, IE and FF. You might get a security … Continue reading →

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Sdelete

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

Using Veeam Backup and Replication, I found that this size of the backup file can be greatly reduced if you use Sdelete to zero out the free space in the VMs being backed up (Fixed Disk). I use a script from … Continue reading →

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