May 26, 2009 2:49 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
iis,
iis 6,
IIS6,
Microsoft Windows,
System Administration,
web tools,
webmasterIn re-doing my laptop after a hard drive failure recently I’ve had to setup a bunch of stuff I had previously installed, one thing that several people have asked about (or didn't know about) is the IIS6 MMC snap in. It allows you to Administer IIS6 from your desktop. It will give you the...
May 2, 2009 6:19 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Disk space,
disk utilities,
file access,
file modified,
modification date,
System Administration,
VBScipt,
VBScript FunctionsI recently needed a way to tell if a file had been accessed or modified recently, something that has always been a question when you're out of space on a server and can't just add more space to it. What do you delete??? The Old files are the obvious answer... except if people are using...
April 23, 2009 11:28 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
performance tips,
System Administration,
Systems Administration,
tips and tricksI read an interesting article recently that gave some excellent tips at making your computer run faster-- without an upgrade! I thought I'd pass some of these tips along and add a few of my own.
First, You can make your computer run faster (and free up space by uninstalling software that you no...
April 20, 2009 1:44 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Eventlogs,
System Administration,
systems management,
VBScript,
Win32_NTLogEventIf you've ever tried to find a specific event log entry in a system you know what a chore it can be to find them. Sure, you can filter on the event ID and get closer but, some applications (and system components) log every event that's from the same source as the same event ID.
IIS is terribly...
April 13, 2009 3:18 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Administration tools,
Functions,
System Administration,
Systems Administration,
VBScript,
VBScript Functions,
win32_process,
Windows Management Interface,
WMI Recently I had an issue where I needed to find the user running a series of processes on a large number of servers. Initially, it was a long process of logging onto each server then opening task manager and sorting by process name. After about 5 servers, I realized it was going to take hours to...
February 26, 2009 8:00 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
iis,
System Administration,
Systems Administration,
systems management,
VBScript,
VBScript Functions,
web sites,
web tools,
working with objectsI recently posted a script that retrieved the anonymous user password for a server in IIS. This script I posted, Using the IIS ADSI object to retrieve the anonymous user password for a server...
February 20, 2009 3:53 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
iis,
System Administration,
Systems Administration,
Toolkit,
VBScipt,
VBScript,
VBScript Functions,
working with objectsI recently had to change the anonymous user account for a change request for a site in IIS, but unfortunately the change did not work and we had to roll it back. However, I didn’t have and wouldn’t have known the account’s password since IIS and windows changes it periodically.
So, out...
January 28, 2009 11:40 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
CRM,
Microsoft CRM,
Microsoft Dynamics CRM,
System Administration,
systems managementI've been doing a good deal of work with Microsoft CRM lately. Heck, I'll say it... I've been doing ALL my work with Microsoft CRM lately. It's a beast that no one here at "the office" knows about and I've become "The Guy". You know what that means, scramble to stay ahead of the...
January 8, 2009 2:18 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
essential tools,
free software,
free tools,
System Administration,
Web applications,
web sites,
webmasterYou may have been thinking I had forgotten about this series of articles since I haven't posted to it in a while. Nope! Just haven't run across anything that was truely aazing enough to be an "Essential Tool". Well, I recently found just that web I had to troubleshoot a application that was making...
