Extract Office Install Key (2000/XP/2003/2007/2010)
Here is a little script to get the office keys. Should work for office 2000/XP/2003/2007/2010 Dim ScriptHelper Set ScriptHelper = New ScriptHelperClass ScriptHelper.RunMeWithCScript() strComputer = ScriptHelper.Network.ComputerName CONST HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000 CONST HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 CONST HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 CONST HKEY_USERS = &H80000003 CONST KEY_QUERY_VALUE = 1 CONST KEY_SET_VALUE = 2 CONST SEARCH_KEY = “DigitalProductID” Dim arrSubKeys(10,1) Dim foundKeys Dim iValues, arrDPID […]
Determine Office Edition Script
By request, here is a script to detect the installed edition of Office. Currently only supports 2007 and 2010 but can be adapted easily enough. This site was used as a reference – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2186281 Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”) Select Case objWord.Version Case ”12.0″ strYear = ”2007″ Case ”14.0″ strYear = ”2010″ Case Else strYear = ”Unsupported Version” End Select intRelease = Right(Left(objWord.ProductCode(),2), 1) Select Case intRelease Case ”0″ strRelease = ”Pre Release” Case ”1″ strRelease = ”Beta 1″ Case ”2″ strRelease = ”Beta 2″ Case ”3″ strRelease = ”RC 0″ Case ”4″ […]
Prevention is better than cure
Do you monitor server health at the moment? Your server is one of your most important assets, so it makes sense to check its pulse regularly to ensure its heart is beating strong. Remember what the doctors are fond of saying: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. With that in mind […]
DNS.exe High Memory Usage
Q. I did a fresh install of Windows 2008 R2 and my DNS memory consumption is going through the roof. If I reboot, it’s ok briefly, but then it goes up again. How can I stop it? A. There are a lot of discussions about DNS high memory utilization on Windows 2008 R2 floating around. […]
Majority of small businesses not confident in network security
More than half of IT administrators at small businesses would not bet their own money that all of the computers their business owns and employees use are free of malware (51%) or that all are operating at peak efficiency and will not fail (59%), according to GFI Software. Survey results also reveal that 51% of […]
Simple safe web browsing tips
The most important thing to remember about cyber security is that people using their touchpad or mouse are the last line of defense. Technologies such as anti-virus, safe browsers, firewalls, or anything else cannot help if an Internet user clicks on the wrong link or visits the wrong web site. The following tips from Wombat […]
Where did all my space go on Linux?
It happens your systems are working away happily one min and the next they stop. On Linux most of the time it seems that the hard drive or partition fills up and then everything stops. If you open up a SSH and type [root@SLnetTest1 ~]# du -h –max-depth=1 / 399M /opt 16K /lost+found 28M /sbin 13M /boot 412K […]
Exchange 2010 Missing Server configuration in EMC?
I was using outlook locally on a Exchange server. (i know not a good idea) Anyway if you are going to use it to access a mail box DON’T click the remember password. If not next time you log in to the Exchange Management Console it will log on with those credentials and you wont be able to manage […]
Microsoft Exchange PST Capture is used to discover and import .pst files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online
While doing a mass mailbox move from one exchange provider to us i found this handy tool. It allows you to bulk import PST files directly to exchange with no outlook installed. PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment – all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will […]
Outlook still autodiscovering BPOS after moving off it.
We moved a customer from BPOS (Telstra Hosted Exchange) to our own managed exchange. After hours of backing up mail boxes and restoring (due to the bpos platform being slow) and reseting up the profiles on the local pc i found the autodiscover kept prompting for a username and password for the bpos servers. (red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com) […]
