As I mentioned in the Group Policy Administrative Templates post a while back, I was recently looking to enable running PowerShell scripts. I had run into a task where a VBScript would not quite do the trick. With a little bit of research and cramming, I was able to write a quick PowerShell script that would do the task perfectly. In this article, I have jotted down the notes I … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2012
Jumpshot project on Kickstarter seeks to cure Persistent Tech Support Disease
A new project on Kickstarter should sound very intriguing to those of us who get frequent tech support calls from our friends, relatives, and acquaintances. It seeks to make managing, fixing, and optimizing Windows computers easier. You simply plug in a bootable USB stick and run Jumpshot. It will temporarily change the Windows bootloader to boot from the USB stick instead of … [Read more...]
Domain typo squatting spreads malware as Pinterest Tool
Pinterest is a fast-growing social network with a demographic that is of much interest to advertisers. Unfortunately, they are also of interest to malicious folks spreading malware and building botnets. Last night, my wife stumbled upon something that looked awfully suspicious while she was browsing Pinterest. With a bit of digging, I found an attempt to make the setup less … [Read more...]
Collide, a collaborative IDE Google was developing, goes open-source
The Google offices in Atlanta are closing and much of what they were working on is also being put out to pasture. As told from one Googler, Scott Blum, whose last day with Google is today, one nifty project is being gifted to the open-source community. It is a collaborative IDE called Collide. Think of it like Google's other sunset project, Wave, but used by developers to code … [Read more...]
Using wildcards and like statements in WMI queries and scripts
Continuing to take advantage of using WMI to get data from workstations, another project recently came up to get an inventory of printers installed across my organization. It ended up being a pretty easy task using WMI through a startup script but the results could be tailored more by being selective about the results. Combined with formatting the output as a csv and later … [Read more...]