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Turn on or off your wireless LAN card from a command line or batch file
My trusty Dell C640 laptop with Windows XP doesn’t have a built-in function key sequence for disabling the wireless LAN card.
On a Intel support forum, I ran across this thread and I followed the suggestions for installing the Microsoft DevCon utility and launching an on or off batch file. I’m now using an on and off batch file in conjunction with the free version of the Keybreeze utility
Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA)
The GPDBPA tool is a stand-alone program that an administrator can run
from a Windows Server 2003-based system or from a Windows XP-based
system. You can use the tool to do the following:
| • | Perform a proactive health check on the Group Policy environment to detect common configuration errors that frequently generate support incidents. |
| • | Collect diagnostic information and initial data from an environment, and then automate some analysis of that data. |
| • | Obtain a snapshot of the Group Policy configuration for archiving. This data may be a useful reference if a future problem occurs. |
What Microsoft Uses For Vista Anti-Virus
Meaningless technical tidbit, but if Computer Associates (CA) is good enough for Microsoft’s coders, why not the rest of us? Mark Russinovich in a recent blog posting.
Citrix PS 4.5 Enterprise — Error 10001
It turns out my encounter with this error was due to a “bad” install of .NET 2.0. I could not perform a security update of .NET 2.0. I ignored the security update error and proceeded to perform the Citrix PS 4.5 install. Near the end of the Citrix server component installation, the installer began uninstalling all of the PS 4.5 server software components. The Citrix error returned after the uninstall was 10001.
In my earlier blog post I described how I uninstalled and reinstalled .NET 2.0 (a requirement for PS 4.5). After I reinstalled and patched .NET 2.0 I was able to perform a satisfactory PS 4.5 server installation.
Removing .NET Framework With 3rd Party Utility
Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2. When patching the server’s .NET 2.0 for security update – encountered an error message. Rebooted and attempted to patch once again – same error. Tried to uninstall .NET 2.0 from the Add/remove control panel applet. Could not uninstall – another error message.
Found this link (read Daniel’s reply) and then downloaded the utility from this link. The utility performed the “cleanup” after I selected .Net 2.0 from the pull down list. Other .NET versions listed in the utility were 1.1, 2.0. 3.0 and 3.5.
After the cleanup, reboot the server, launch Windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download and reinstall the .NET 2.0 framework. After the install, reboot. Don’t forget to obtain the .NET 2.0 security update after the reboot and then reboot once again for good measure.
Obtaining Previous Versions Of Acrobat Reader
Looking for older versions of the free Acrobat Reader (7.x and 8.0)? Begin here and walk the directory tree to find the version you want:
Recovering Missing Volumes After Restoring A Ghost Disk Image
Experienced this problem with HP DL360 servers w/ 2-72GB disks, RAID 1.
After restoring a Windows 2003 DISK image (GHOST image) to the server, able to boot and work with drive C:. Unable to see and access drives E: and F: also thought to have been restored in the DISK image.
Solved by using DiskPart this way:
- At a command prompt, type Diskpart <enter>
- Type List Volumes <enter>
- Missing volumes are seen, but they don’t show labels or drive letter assignment
- Type Select Volume 2 <enter>
- Type Assign <enter>
- You’ll see an affirmative message.
- Type List Volumes <enter>
- Does the drive letter appear along with a volume label? Good.
- Type Select Volume 3 <enter>
- Type Assign <enter>
- You’ll see an affirmative message.
- Type List Volumes <enter>
- All drive letters appear with their volume labels?
- Type exit <enter> and close the command prompt.
- Reboot the server to verify drive letters appear normally.
Extract Individual Files From An .MSI Installer File
Works from a command prompt. It extracts files and maintains their target directory structure just like a new install.
Active Directory Group Policy (GPO) Backup, Restore, Copy and Import
Backing up a GPO copies the data in the GPO to the file system. The backup function also serves as the export capability for GPOs. A GPO backup can be used to restore the GPO to the backed-up state, or to import the settings in the backup to another GPO.
