Windows: Some Small System Administration Scripts

Here are a few scripts that I have cobbled together over the last few years. They are small and useful but nothing earth-shattering. One gets information about a remote system and who is logged in. The other can remotely reset the administrator password. Both obviously require  you have the permissions to do so on the remote machines. Both accept multiple computer names divided by a semi-colon.  Save and change the extension from .txt to .hta

GetAsset

ResetAdminPass

Mouting ISO’s in Windows

I just downloaded the 4 iso images needed to install vista and wanted to use vlite to make the 4 iso’s into one while at the same time removing a bunch of extra crap that gets installed by default. Well I have no desire to burn 4 discs just to have to copy them all back to the hard drive so I looked for an iso mounter to virtually access the files I needed. Continue reading

Moving the PDC Emulator FSMO Role – Time Server Issues

I did not want this to be my first post but it needs to be posted out there somewhere for all to read.

There are plenty of documents out there on how to seize the FSMO roles in a windows 2003 domain controller, so I’ll not discuss how that is done. But many of them do not tell you a few extra steps needed if you are moving the PDC Emulator role and that server is (as it should be by default

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