First of all, download psexec from the Microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx     From and elevated/admin command prompt (cmd.exe, "run as administrator"), run psexec –s cmd.exe

C:\>whoami peter

C:\>psexec -s cmd.exe

PsExec v1.83 – Execute processes remotely Read more

Easy, don’t you think ?  Right click explorer(.exe), choose "run as administrator" and you’re set ?

Nope – doesn’t work !  And this is why

The UAC (User Account Control) feature in Vista provides a user with Read more

By default, Vista has the Windows Firewall is turned on. This means that all incoming connections are being blocked. This may be a good thing in certain cases, but not restrictive enough in most cases, because all outgoing traffic Read more

Windows XP Method 1

1. In Folder Options, on the Offline Files tab, press CTRL+SHIFT, and then click Delete Files. The following message appears:

The Offline Files cache on the local computer will be re-initialized. Any changes that have Read more

After migrating this blog from my old 2008 RC1 server to a new 2008 RTM server, I noticed that my Sharepoint alerts stopped working. I was still getting an email message when I created a new alert definition, but Read more

In this post, I will explain one of the techniques to monitor the age of a given file, using vbscript and Operations Manager 2007

This is what the script looks like :

Option Explicit ‘ ‘ Script that returns Read more

I have decided to make some of my old (and new) tools and scripts available to the community. 

The first (6 years old but still useful) tool is my SMTP Open Relay Tester.  This small standalone Windows console application Read more

In this short post, I’ll explain one of the techniques to monitor whether a modem is listening for incoming calls on a machine, using Operations Manager 2007. Assuming that you may have some modems that get turned on when Read more

One of the reasons why the company I work at has taken the decision to implement Operations Manager is because the daily task to go through a pile of interfacing and backup log files became too time consuming and Read more

As far as I know, there are no free Management Packs available for monitoring Juniper/Netscreen firewalls with Operations Manager 2007. Catching snmp traps and syslog events seems to be the only "easy"/free way to monitor what is going on Read more