This is one way to access remote computer via command-line.
Download Remote Command-Line
Read the “Read Me” for instructions.
**** Another option for remote command-line access is to use psexec for sysinternals.
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Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard
Posted by John Sorensen on July 27th, 2009
WIWW2 is a great tool to create custom MSI’s. I use this (and others) to primary setup MSI’s to deploy via script, GPO, WDM. Its a simple and no thrills wrapper but it does the trick.
This program is pretty much almost impossible to find now but here it is…
Download Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard (aka. WIWW2)
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Raid Levels
Posted by John Sorensen on June 18th, 2009
RAID 0
RAID 0, also known as “striping”, writes stripping of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive. RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy, but does offer the best high-speed data throughput. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array. Disk striping enhances performance because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously; but the reliability of RAID Level 0 is less than any of its member disk drives due to...
Things I’ve learned while being an Admin
Posted by John Sorensen on May 26th, 2009
You have been granted magic powers. Items WILL self-repair with JUST YOUR presence. Use this power wisely. Do not use it to try and get free snacks from the vending machine.
Certain people get ‘VETO power’ past the Help Desk and go directly to you. Not right but that just IS. One department that will abuse this most will be “Sales”. Enough said.
Developers like freedom. They don’t like restrictions. Hint. Locking them down to ‘guest’ access is NOT productive....
Posted in Other Tech, Personal 
Tags: admin, administrator, network admin, what to expect, what you need to know 
No Comments »Computer Problem Report Form
Posted by John Sorensen on April 27th, 2009
1. Describe your problem:
2. Now, describe the problem accurately:
3. Speculate wildly about the cause of the problem:
4. Problem Severity:
A. Minor__
B. Minor__
C. Minor__
D. Trivial__
5. Nature of the problem:
A. Locked Up__
B. Frozen__
C. Hung__
D. Strange Smell__
6. Is your computer plugged in? Yes__ No__
7. Is it turned on? Yes__ No__
8. Have you tried to fix it yourself? Yes__ No__
9. Have you made it worse? Yes__
10. Have you had "a friend" who...
Quickly sync time with ntp server
Posted by John Sorensen on April 2nd, 2009
If your Unix box has ntp but is just not configured just enter
“ntpdate -s ‘servername or ip’“
This will sync the Unix time with your NTP servers time. Its quick and simple… and a bit dirty but works.
List running processes
Posted by John Sorensen on March 29th, 2009
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334'===========================================================
'
' NAME: <listRunningProcesses.vbs>
' COMMENT: <lists information on running processes on system>
'
'===========================================================
Option Explicit
'On Error Resume Next
dim strComputer 'computer to connect to with wmi
dim wmiNS 'wmi namespace
dim wmiQuery 'the wmi query
dim objWMIService...
Wuauclt.exe switches (old)
Posted by John Sorensen on March 25th, 2009
Some of the switches below are used with older versions of wuaclt.exe and may not work any more.
These switches for “wuauclt.exe” are good for troubleshooting WSUS client problems and Windows Updates. Some of the switches below are used with older versions of wuaclt.exe and may not work any more. Check your “windowsupdate.log” file in the “C:\Windows” to check the output of a command if any output exists.
The following feartures/switches are needed.
1. /? –...
SMTP commands
Posted by John Sorensen on March 9th, 2009
SMTP commands:
Command
Description
References
ATRN
Authenticated TURN.
RFC 2645
AUTH
Authentication.
RFC 2554
BDAT
Binary data.
RFC 3030
BURL
Remote Content.
RFC 4468
DATA
Data.
RFC 2821
EHLO
Extended Hello.
RFC 2821
ETRN
Extended Turn.
RFC 1985
EXPN
Expand
RFC 2821
HELO
Hello
RFC 2821
HELP
Help
RFC 2821
MAIL
Mail
RFC 2821
NOOP
No operation
RFC 2821
ONEX
One message transaction only.
QUIT
Quit
RFC 2821
RCPT
Recipient
RFC 2821
RSET
Reset
RFC 2821
SAML
Send...
Send Email Using Telnet
Posted by John Sorensen on March 9th, 2009
Start off by opening a command prompt or terminal shell
then type: telnet mail.domain.ext 25
You should receive a reply like saying “220″ and the service is ready followed by the date/time. This depends on how your email server is configured.
Example:
220 mail.domain.ext ESMTP Service ready at date+time+gmtoffset? (or somehting similiar)
Now that you are connected you will then need to delcare where you are sending the email from:
HELO domain.name – dont worry too much about...
