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Quickie: List encrypted files

August 7th, 2012 No comments

If you want to list all encrypted files by EFS you can use command:

cipher [PATH]

This command will list all files in PATH. Encrypted files will have “E” character in front of it:

 

List encrypted files

List encrypted files

 

This command is great to handle encrypted files. Look at cipher /? command output.

 

Problem Steps Recorder

August 7th, 2012 No comments

I found great utility builtin Windows Vista and higher. It’s called Problem Steps Recorder. It’s mentioned to use it by users to record their problems and then send recorded screens to Helpdesk/Administrator.

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Quickie: Display detailed activation and license status

August 6th, 2012 No comments

Sometimes you need to find out if your windows is activated and quickes way to do so is to run command:

slmgr /dli

This command can also do

  • /ipk <Product Key> – Install product key (replaces existing one)
  • /ato [Activation ID] – Activate Windows
  • /dli – Display license information
  • /dlv – Display detailed license information
  • /xpr – Expiration date for current license state
  • …AND MANY MORE

For full help use slmgr /?.

 

Problem with enterprise certificate distribution

July 2nd, 2012 1 comment

Once upon the time I played with enterprise certification authority at one of our customers. I’ve created new certificate for certification authority. And then problem begun.

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Certification Authority – decrease key lenght

June 27th, 2012 No comments

One my colleague wanted to make one of our customer’s environment very secure so he decided to install Enterprise Certification Authority environment with 4kB keys. He created one offline root CA with 4kB key (Windows 2003). This computer is offline all the time. Another CA is Issuing CA which key is signed by root CA. This issuing CA also had 4kB key (Windows 2008 R2). Certificates issued by issuing CA were from 2kB-16kB.

Problem raised when customer wanted to create certificate for Cisco devices to secure Wifi. To make those devices use and trust certificates from issuing CA customer needed to import Root and Issuing CA public certificates into those Cisco devices. And this was a problem. Those Cisco devices didn’t want to work with more than 2kB certificates.

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HP-UX problem with disks from SAN

June 14th, 2012 No comments

We had project replacing SAN switches. Customer has one old HP-UX (HP Unix) system. This system is very sensible about SAN changes.

Normal situation

You can see all hardware using command (http://www.bga.org/~lessem/psyc5112/usail/man/hpux/ioscan.1.html):

ioscan -fnC

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Windows Server 2012 on VMWare

June 6th, 2012 No comments

Today we tried to run Windows Server 2012 RC on VMWare. Our version of OS on VM was set to Microsoft Windows Server 8.

After first reboot after installation we got black screen with little circles going around forever:

 

Never ending cycling

Never ending cycling

 

We couldn’t make it work. But we found solution. Just change OS Version of VM to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit).

For Windows 8 it is required to change OS Version to Windows 7. Thanks to Róbert Švec.

We hope VMWare will fix this soon 🙂

 

 

Exchange 2003 Out of office assistant subject language

May 31st, 2012 No comments

Today I was asked to find out why some users gets Out of office message subject in Slovak language and some in English. Company has two Exchange 2003 servers. One is for Front-end and second is to host mailbox databases.

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Exchange Distribution Group restriction

May 29th, 2012 No comments

Today one of our customers called me and asked how they can prevent from receiving e-mails from Internet for particular distribution group. They have Exchange 2010 SP2. I instructed him to check field on properties of distribution group called Require that all senders are authentificated.

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Add Unix commands into Windows

May 29th, 2012 No comments

When I want to feel like guru or I just need to use some Unix based utilities in Windows, I used to install http://www.cygwin.com/. It’s cool. But I recently found out that Windows has native support for Unix based applications.

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