From the category archives:
This week I received a question from Scott: “Hi Steve, Management at my company wants to block AIM (AOL Messenger) on all computers. Because some of the machines are not joined to the domain I want a way to do this from a script. The port is 4099 TCP btw. Thanks!” I spoke with Scott, […]
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Got a question from Brett this week: “Hi Steve. I have a tough one for you. I want to determine from a VBScript if a program is using too much CPU time. Specifically, I want to know when the spooler service goes over 50% CPU utilization. All the scripts I see don’t seem to work […]
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In another life I worked at a bank. We had a bunch of terminal servers – all of them packed with users. Throughout the day I would get a call like this: “My teller program is stuck, can you help me?” This buggy teller app would freeze up and no matter how much they tried […]
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The emails keep coming in. Keep it up 🙂 This question is from Steve (Awesome name, love it): “Hi Steve. We have a piece of software that does not run as a service. It runs like any other application. You launch it and it performs batch processing. The problem is, well, if this application dies […]
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Trying something new this week – got a video version of this weeks tip: Got a question from Linda this week, “Steve. We have quite a few IIS based web servers and each of them has their own custom configuration. I know how to backup all the files, but is there any way to backup […]
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We just released the latest version of Enterprise Remote Control. What is it? – Let me tell you. Ever have trouble supporting a remote user because it is too hard to get to their machine? You know what I am talking about…finding their public IP, having them open a port or two – if you […]
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A few days ago a friend of mine called me. He said he had a small problem with his laptop, and was wondering if I could help him over the phone. You get the idea. Not an easy problem. He brought the laptop over, and I determined the cause of the blue screen: it was […]
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It is that time again. Microsoft is getting close to releasing IE 9 in its final form. According to my sources, it will be released on Monday, March 14th. This also means it will show up in automatic updates as an “Important Update” If you want to prevent this from happening, you can setup a […]
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I got a question from a customer last week: Hi Steve, I just bought your program on Friday and I love it. I have one question though: Is there any way to use IntelliAdmin Network Administrator to set not only the VNC password but also the VNC view only password? We are using TightVNC 1.3 […]
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We have just put the finishing touches on Beta 4 of our Enterprise product. What is it? It is a remote administration solution that allows you to get to your computers from anywhere. Traditionally if you want to remote into a PC, you need to open ports, and determine its IP address. With Enterprise remote […]
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