Geoff's Knowledgebase

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VMware ESX

• Kill a running machine on ESX

Windows System Administration

• Cannot Eject USB or Firewire Disk Drive
• Determine Which Process Opened Which Port
• Require SSL for a Website (including Exchange 2000 Webmail)
• Associating all files with Notepad
• Hide Desktop Items and Disable the Desktop in Windows XP
• Use VMWare and SYSPREP to Create a Master Workstation Image
• Reset the Offline Files database
• Reinstall Internet Explorer
• Turn off viewing remote scheduled tasks (speed up Explorer)
• Disable Inactive User Accounts
• Windows Services
• Correct IP Stack after Spyware Removal
• Configure Windows to run a program as a service
• Configure Windows to retrieve time from an external NTP server
• Add "Copy To" and "Move To" to all files in Windows Explorer
• Reinstall the Microsoft MDAC on a Windows XP computer with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• DrWatson Error log
• WIDCOMM Bluetooth Driver Issue with XP SP2
• Use OpenSSH to connect to a remote machine (for remote control using VNC, Terminal Services, Remote Desktop)
• Clone a Vista installation using Ghost
• Move a window that is displayed off-screen to the current monitor
• Outlook is unable to connect to Exchange Server over a wireless network
• Error message when using DiskPart within BartPE
• Delete the windows filesystem journal to defrag hard disk
• Modify Windows services timeout value
• Configure Exchange to not deliver NDR reports

VBScript 

• Use VBScript to change an Active Directory user password
• Use VBScript and WMI to shutdown the system

Protocol Hints

• POP3
• HTTP
• SMTP

Exchange

• Creating Resource mailboxes in Exchange
• Mail-enable a public folder
• Grant Send As permission to another user
• Search Active Directory for an email address 

Command Line, Batch, Scripting

• Affect files in batch using FOR command
• Working With Arrays
• Excel: Use VBA Script to Hide Empty Rows
• Use VBScript to Customize the Windows Login Script
• Use VBScript and WMI to query the installed software
• Use VBScript and WMI to modify the registry

Database

• Working with Microsoft Access
• Microsoft SQL

Linux

• Working with Linux