"net view" has stopped working. There's a script the helpdesk admin runs every day that involves net view cmd. It worked yesterday.
It doesn't work for her, me or on the servers. nslookup works. No firewalls have mysteriously turned themselves on.
it's all very strange!
As more of us are deploying Windows 7 in School like me you will find something annoying about the Navigation pane. There is a "Network" icon shown are there is no built in group policy to remove this. I have found a custom ADM template that will allow us to remove it. I have attached it on this post.
Hope you will find it useful!
Steps on how to add an ADM template can be found here:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Using-Custom-ADM-Templates-Windows-Server-200
Welcome to Part 4a of my System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) series! So - here is probably the most anticipated post - how to get started with OS Imaging! Im going to show you how to get SCCM ready for building your first Windows 7 image - and then in 4b, how to deploy that (with a load of extra options and fancy stuff!) to your estate. In the mean time, if there is something specific you need, or that you think Ive missed, please comment or send me a PM. Alternatively, you can find me on
Why
At present the school i work haven't spent a penny in equipment/software since 2008/9, my predecessor had been using a unlicensed version of ghost, witch means either buy ghost or reinstall everything by hand.
Believe it or not ghost was to expensive, installing everything by hand was the only way, for some time until i fell over the below YouTube clips;
Introduction to Windows PE v2 0 Part 1 by AppDeploy - YouTube
AppDeploy are amazing, after loads of googleing it soon became ap
From time to time you may wish to find out who is logged into a machine. I find this batch file handy for doing this. Its quick, simple and easy.
Just copy and paste the below code into notepad and save the file as who.bat
@echo off
:CHECK
echo Checking Connection ...
ping %1 -n 1 | findstr "TTL=" >nul && GOTO MAIN || GOTO ERROR
GOTO END
:ERROR
echo Device Unreachable
GOTO END
:MAIN
wmic /node: "%1" computersystem get username
GOTO END
:END
echo.
Now open the comman
Welcome to Part 3 of my System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) series! I know its taken me a bit longer to get this lot sorted, and I hope that Im covering the mailbag of questions Ive had - but if there is something specific you need, please comment or send me a PM. Alternatively, you can find me on Twitter @TheScarfedOne.
Part 3 is going to deal with your initial configuration. Im going to take you on a whistle-stop tour to get your basic SCCM system ready to do a Build and Capture in P
From time to time we need to rename computers on the domain. The computers can sometimes be in a locked room, in a remote site or you simply cant be bothered visiting them.
This code below will allow you to rename computers on the domain form the comfort of your own desk. Once you have entered you old name and your new name the computer concerned will automatically reboot and your all done! All you have to do is make sure nobody is using the machine and that the new computer name is available
Well that sucks.
I've had to convert the head-node into a CC3 desktop because one has died [power supply failure] and I've also had to rip the power button from one of the nodes.
That brings it down to 3 computers I can use. While it's stil possible, I think, the fact they're RM F-series and weak beyond belief[/opinion] would render any added power from the clustering moot.
Sorry to anyone who was actually interested.
The project is dead. Long live the project.
Welcome to Part 2 of my System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) series – desigined to show you how to get a basic setup up and running in a day not a week!
So, Im guessing you’ve gone through Part 1 – and are now ready to get on with the actual install.
You will be needing those two AD accounts - SCCMAdmin and SCCMClient – so make sure you have them ready.
Starting the Install
STOP – SCCM needs to extend the AD Schema. If you have not installed SCCM before, you will need to do t
Monday was the big day for us this week; we've switched over on Friday afternoon to our new fully IP based system consisting of a Splicecom Maximiser 5100 Call Server supporting 118 phones. So far, so good with it all appearing to be working well and recieved well by all staff.
It has however been a long time in planning; with support from the community on here as a whole I felt it only right to detail my experience over the last few months.
I've been fortunate that a couple of years ago
Hey look. A blog post that isn't Project Borg related.
It's pony related. [Among other things] [[censored] ponies... how do they work?]
I'm sitting around herping, derping and generally searching things on the interweb when our Head of Math asks me about my desktop wallpaper.
So far, it's been described as bambi, "that white guy with blue hair and the dog in the collar"[?]... no-one had actually asked what it was.
So I told him. It's 'My little pony.' And it's awesome.
I told him
Hello again! This is the continuing travel log of my attempts to build a new virtual infrastructure, so if you've not read part one, this might seem very specific and strange. I'm not claiming to write The Guide here, I'm just jotting down my experiences as I go in the hopes it helps someone (and possibly future me if I go through this again. Hello future me! How're the flying cars?)
I'm still optimistically cross-posting this to my actual blog as well in the hopes that I actually stick at th
It seems the project will have to be on hold for a bit while I sort out documentation.
Everything I have references software that doesn't work. [and things like chkconfig... which I can't use.]
I'm going to find alternatives and start again from scratch.
This time using Ubuntu 11.10 [server]. If it works... Which it didn't an hour ago.
Hopefully, it will have all the necessary software installed.
I originally posted this in the forums, but i think it fits here better.
I have had a few people ask how to deploy VNC via group policy. If you have a large network where you want to install VNC on a large amount of computers this would be an ideal solution.
For this guide i used TightVNC - the website is here: tightvnc.com
I decide to go for TightVNC becuase
Easy to use
Free
Ability to hide the icon in the system tray
Built in access control options
Very lightweight
Abili
Ok... so a departure from my normal belongings - but a bit of idle (well maybe not) fun and games...
Read, and enjoy the underbelly of society!
The DARWIN Awards!
It's with great pleasure that I announce...it's that time again. The Darwin Awards are out! These Annual Honors are given to the persons who did the human gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
You may recall that last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke
...it's a BLARGH post.
All I have to say is "SCREW YOU, DEBIAN 6.0.3!!"
I spent this morning setting up/configuring the cluster controller [or the "head node" as my documentation calls it].
I wired it up, without any network connection as I'm not at that stage yet.
Stuck in the Debian disk, boots fine.
Using it as a live disk, works fine.
Install OS... Nope.
For some reason it doesn't want to install. I have no idea why, it says the HDD is "unclean."
Well, it isn't. I checke
This post is going to seem very odd - as it is Part 4 of a series, where Ive only published Part 1 so far! Bear with me, there is a reason...
A lot of my blogs recently have covered areas I get asked about a lot - and this one came up today!
Take the scenario, you are sending out your OS Builds to Machines, and also you are letting staff choose from your catalog of software to install themselves.
Problem - your OS install also shows in the list, so technically - they could bork the mac
It may seem a little strange to write a summary without having written the other posts … but best to keep things short and sweet.
There will be more posts, but rather than the initial splurge of activity post-BETT I thought I would share ideas, opinions, what I saw, conversations I had, etc … but over a longer period … and it also means that I have the benefit of looking at blog posts from others too … and this year there are a plethora of posts!
I am pretty sure I can summarise the event
