Category: Sys Admin

Rehome FCS

When I was building our SCCM environment I decided it would be a good time to clean up WSUS & FCS and bring them under the new system.

The problem I ran into was \”How do I repoint FCS?\” without having to uninstall and reinstall it on every machine.

The solution, a bit of VB script based on the information here: http://blogs.technet.com/fcsnerds/archive/2008/11/12/changing-the-management-group-to-which-an-fcs-client-reports.aspx

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Cisco Wireless AP – VLANs and Multiple SSIDs Part 3

Introduction

Hello again, welcome to the third and final part of this tutorial.  Hopefully you have enjoyed reading Part 1 & Part 2 and have understood it all, so without further adue lets get started.

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Normalise video file names

Updated: 2013-03-04 – Fixed bug that prevented names containing 720p/1080p from being parsed properly.

This is a perl script to normalize video file names for TV series, it will run under windows or linux.

Note: I have tested this and do use it however I may have missed something or there may be a bug I have not encountered, I would advise backing up the files to be renamed before running the script and then verify that it has worked as expected. If so delete the backups if not please leave a comment detailing what has happened and I\’ll try to fix it asap.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible if this causes WWIII or nukes your computer, use at your own risk.

Supported naming schemes

Name

  • Single
  • Double.1
  • Double 2
  • Double-3
  • Double_4

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CPUInfo

Small shell script that returns the details in /proc/cpuinfo in a more human readable and relevant way.

Sample output

Processor seems to be quite old guessing number.
#######################################
#           CPU Information           #
#######################################

CPU Architecture is: x86_64
CPU Manufacturer is: AMD
CPU Model is:  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252
CPU Speed is:  1800 1800MHz
Number of physical CPUs: 2
Number of cores per CPU: 1
Number of logical CPUs (cores & hyperthreading): 2
Hyperthreading enabled (Intel only): N/A

#######################################

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Cisco Wireless AP – VLANs and Multiple SSIDs Part 2

Introduction

UPDATED 2010-11-23: There were a couple of typos in the code & a few lines in the wrong order. Thanks to Vic for letting me know about them.

Hopefully after reading Part 1 you have a general idea of what is going on. In this part we will do the configuation needed on CS1 and start to configure wlan1. I strongly recommend connecting via the console for this but it should be possible (if you are careful in which order you enter the commands that you could do this over ssh/telnet). During this period wlan1 will be unavailable to the users but wlan2 will be running fine so they shouldn’t notice any down time.

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Cisco Wireless AP – VLANs and Multiple SSIDs Part 1

Introduction

The purpose of this document is to explain how to setup and Cisco Aironet 1130ag with two SSIDs one for internal users which will authenticate via a radius server and the other for visitors that will use a wpa pass-phrase and will restrict users to Internet access only. This has (hopefully) been written in such a way that even someone with virtually no knowledge of Cisco should be able to read it and deploy a system successfully.

I should add at this point that I am not a Cisco guru in any way shape or form (though I am intending to get a CCNA & CCNP). So (I got my CCNA on the 20th August 2010) If you are and are reading this and happen to notice any bits that could be done better or are just plain wrong please leave a comment.

This is all based on some work that I have done recently, so I’ll give an example infrastructure and match the config to that example.

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VBS: Get old computer accounts from AD

UPDATED 2011-02-10: Added support for 33000+ records. Thanks to Mike for finding the limitation and testing the solution. (Note for 33000 records script takes about 1.5hrs to run)

The VBScript loops through the AD and lists all of the computer accounts in a csv file.

The Excel Code does the same except places the data in a formated table in excel, note it is only tested with excel 2007.

The following properties are returned:

  • Hostname,
  • Password Last Set,
  • Day Count (since password was last set),
  • Recent (was this done within the days specified in the script),
  • Disabled?,
  • Top Level OU,
  • OU,
  • Distinguished Name

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