by skufel | Sep 1, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Security, SysAdmin, Windows
As a part of preparation for monitoring our WIndows Server 2008 R2 using SNMP and Nagios we had to add SNMP Services to few systems which didn’t have it yet. So, based on that fact I thought it might be nice to capture all steps involved in adding SNMP to...
by skufel | Aug 8, 2012 | Automation, Scripting, Windows
Again one of those things which I forget when is needed. Autologon in Windows XP. Funny enough is the fact that each time I’m looking for this information is when I want to prevent Windows XP from auto logon and trying to disable that in registry using remote...
by skufel | Jun 27, 2012 | Directory Services, Network, Windows
Many times I came across one issue… how to grant access to CLI (Command Line Interface) on Cisco devices without creating separate username and password for each user on each device? In order to resolve that I did use AAA features of Cisco IOS and built-in...
by skufel | May 18, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Windows
Recently was migrating RADIUS server on Windows from one machien to another. Once new serer was ready had to reconfigure Cisco router to authenticate remote users against new RADIUS. After pointing Cisco to new RADIUS machine made a quick test to check if router can...
by skufel | May 15, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I was wondering how to list all available drives in Windows 7 PE Command Prompt. That happened to me when stuck in PXE boot command prompt window trying to find out what letter is assigned to USB stick I just plugged in. It looks like it’s not quite...
by skufel | Jan 23, 2012 | Directory Services, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
By default ADLDS does not allow to reset password on users created in ADLDS repository over connection without SSL. As sometimes there is a need to build test environment with ADLDS quick, SSL is the last thing which anyone would care about, especially if main thing...
