For quite some time we have had a product called USB Disabler Pro. Its main function is to block or allow access to USB based flash drives. Up until recently this covered just about anything you could plug into a USB port that mapped to a drive. Due to some changes in current versions of […]
This week I came across an e-book from Microsoft Press. It is called “Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2” Microsoft is giving it away right now, so get it while you can. It goes over some of the new features of 2012 R2. Including: -Active Directory -Hyper-V -Storage -Failover Clustering -Networking -IIS -Remote Desktop Services -Windows […]
A few weeks back I wrote a script that could go through all user profiles, and cleanup any temp files laying around. A long time customer Mark asked, “Could you add this to Network Admin?” Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this one Mark, but we got it. We added […]
Last weekend I pulled out an old utility that I have used for years. I wanted to check on my Raspberry PI that I used in this project: Sprinkler system controlled by a Raspberry PI What did I need to check? I forgot the IP address 🙁 Just wanted to see if the thing was […]
Yesterday we released a new version of Enterprise Remote Control. This build fixes some long standing issues that were very tough to isolate: Issue: Agents would take a long time to reconnect if the DNS server settings were changed, or the DNS server was down. Resolution: A complete change was made to how the agent […]
I got a great question from Brian this week: “Is there a quick way to delete the temp files for all user profiles? We have some PC’s that many users logon to and over a period of time there can be many thousands of temp files in each users profile.” A simple way to do […]
This week Tim asked: “How do I run Defrag remotely using Network Administrator?” This is a good question. Normally you can execute any batch file, or script you want just using the remote execute plugin. Defrag.exe, and other tools built into Windows are different. Since the file is located under c:\windows\system32, Windows will try to […]
Got a question from Mark this week: “Does the latest version of Network Administrator allow me to run just the update cleanup portion of disk cleanup?” Mark showed me a new command that was backported from Windows 8 to Windows 7. It allows you to delete service pack, and patch uninstall files. These can add […]
If you are a command line junkie like me – you might want to check out this free utility I found. It is called ConEmu, a free command line replacement for Windows. The feature that got me interested is the tabbed interface: The tabs can be renamed, for quick identification: You can also start a […]
A while back I wrote an article about a VB script that could pull your serial number / product key. The problem with that is VB script has an issue with registry redirection on x64 versions of Windows. Under many installs of Windows 7/8/2012 (x64) that script will just get you a bunch of zeros. […]