Dec 14, 2012
How To Install clusterssh on Cygwin
ClusterSSH is just one of those handy tools for making changes to many servers at once. A very nice tool for a systems administrator to have. If you are in an enterprise situation where your system is a Windows system and you maintain Linux / Unix systems you ave a few options to manage your systems like VirtualBox, Cygwin, puTTy and many more. Of the ones I mentioned only VirtualBox and Cygwin are ones... read more
Nov 25, 2012
How to Scan multiple Documents into a Single PDF with Scan2PDF
As administrators we always needs to have many ways to handle many situations. One of them involves scanning documents or some special requests for one offs, like to say a PDF file or let’s say multiple docs to a single PDF. Well there is such a tool that exists that’s easy to use and free. It is called Scan2PDF and it runs on Win 98/2000/XP/Vista/7. It can be downloaded from... read more
Nov 12, 2012
How To Change Passwords on Remote Windows Systems Using SyInternals PsPasswd
We all know that a good Administrator will find a way to automate or make boring tasks easy. Changing passwords on Windows systems, usually Administrator accounts, is one of those we least like to do but have to for audit purposes and also when other administrators leave. Well, here is another tool that can help with changing passwords. The free utility PsPasswd is part of Microsoft’s... read more
Nov 9, 2012
Spanning Volumes on Windows 2008 R2 Using Dynamic Disks
We have all been there, you setup a new server and allocate space to the server and think all is well, but next thing you know space is running out and you have a disk you need to add space to but you can’t. Well with Linux you can add the disk and extend the volume, this is possible with Windows 2008 R2 and Dynamic Disks. Dynamic disks can contain a large number of dynamic volumes (approximately... read more
Nov 8, 2012
How To Get Members of a Local Group with PowerShell
Every admin dreads audit and requests for members with privileged access. Some want screen shots, others use scripts and then there are those of us who like to tinker and use PowerShell for Windows. What the result is a script that gets the members of the local Administrators group and export it to a file. # Get members of local administrator group # getlocaladmins.ps1 $node = hostname # Set the... read more
