by skufel | Mar 14, 2015 | Infrastructure, Network, Security, SysAdmin
When you install TMG 2010 on Windows Server with IE9 you might find that TMG console will not work. That is caused by IE 9. In order to fix it follow steps: Open “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Threat Management...
by skufel | Mar 14, 2015 | Infrastructure, Linux, SysAdmin
If you want to install some packages on Debian and don’t know names of packages you can search in packages cache. For example if you want to see all packages related to MySQL: root@hostname:~# apt-cache search mysql akonadi-backend-mysql - MySQL storage backend...
by skufel | Mar 14, 2015 | Automation, Infrastructure, Linux, SysAdmin
I use SecureCRT quite often to access Linux systems as well as network devices. When going through one of the presentations on SecureCRT web page I found handy tip how to configure session logs to have it divided by date, time and session. Screenshot below...
by skufel | Nov 23, 2014 | Hardware, Infrastructure, Linux, Network
Here is how to turn Raspberry PI with Linksys WUSB100 v2.0 adapter and Raspbian into wireless access point. This might be handy for conference rooms where you have wired connection, but wireless signal is too low. Just quick setup on Raspberry, plugin the cable and...
by skufel | Oct 30, 2014 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
If there is a need to pass specific credentials to Get-WmiObject in order to gather information from remote machine, here is how you can do it: $LAdmin = "DOMAIN\Administrator" $LPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password!" -AsPlainText -Force...
by skufel | Oct 21, 2014 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, System Center
During mass reainstallation/redeployment/migration of large number of PCs, always question about applications is raised. How to deploy/deliver applications once all machines are resintalled? If you have SCCM in the infrastructure, this might help a lot with...
by skufel | Oct 19, 2014 | Infrastructure, Network, Security, SysAdmin
Just released small app for Windows platform. This app allows to decrypt type 7 password from Cisco devices as well as passwords from Cisco VPN profiles (PCF files). Password which can be recovered using this app: wireless keys fro Cisco access points, RADIUS/TACACS...
by skufel | Sep 30, 2014 | Databases, Scripting, Windows
When you try to connect to SQL Server from PowerShell script and you get following message: Unable to find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server] then you have to download and install following components: Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2008...
by skufel | Sep 30, 2014 | Infrastructure, SysAdmin, System Center
Handy information during pre-deployment checks/validations. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Beta 2 5.00.7561.0000 System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC1 5.00.7678.0000 System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC2 5.00.7703.0000 System Center 2012...
by skufel | Aug 25, 2014 | Office, Security, SysAdmin
When you get a message “Your organization’s policies are preventing us from completing this action for you. For more info, please contact your help desk.” it means that you might want to apply this fix to be able to open links in emails:...
