You can pull this information from wmi. This method is useful when you are on the other side of the world to the machine you are working on. All you need is a local or remote shell via psexec or powershell, and type the following: wmic csproduct get name Here are some sample results: Name HP Z420 Workstation Name PRIMERGY BX924 S4 Name ProLiant DL380 G7

The quickest way of converting image formats is to use ImageMagick. There are binary releases for most popular operating systems, however in my case I’m using it on OS X. So to install using brew from a terminal use: brew install imagemagick Once that is installed then just move to the folder you are interested in and use the following: mogrify -format png *.jpg Once that is completed the folder of jpegs should now have some png friends to play with.

I always have to look this up, I’m not sure what is going on with my memory: dsquery user forestroot -name search When you are working on large Active Directories this is somewhat handy. Just replace search with the name you are after, helpfully it supports wildcard.

Use the following powershell command to return the mail pickup folder location from all your Edge and Hub Transport servers. Get-TransportServer | Fl name, PickupDirectoryPath If you are interested in a single server add -Identity: Get-TransportServer -Identity "Server Name" | Fl name, PickupDirectoryPath Where “Server Name” is the Exchange box you are interested in.

I needed to do some packet capturing in windows, so I added a USB network interface to an ultra-book. Upon running wireshark the USB network adapter was conspicuous by its absence from the interface list. After a bit of mulling over I wondered if WinPCap was not aware of the adapter; as these days WinPCap runs as a service. The service is called NPF (NetGroup Packet Filter). So: net stop npf and

There are numerous ways to do this. However using the WMI from a command prompt does the job: wmic diskdrive list brief It is quick and easy to remember, having the benefit that it can be run remotely using a remote shell like Powershell or psexec. Sample output: C:\windows\system32>wmic diskdrive list brief Caption DeviceID Model Partitions Size LITEONIT LMT-128M3M \.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 LITEONIT LMT-128M3M 2 128034708480 Even though it is easy to remember, I’m putting it here as I’ll forget.

I needed to do this recently and had a few issues. I guess it is not often required to have multiple connections but every now and then it crops up. Historically drivers sometimes caused issues and usually down to power options, understandability to reduce load on batteries. However this time it turned out to be windows that is effecting things. Cutting a long story short, to find the culprit setting run:

From an administrative command prompt type: fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo d: The output will include: Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 In this case Bytes Per Cluster is 4096.

You can use this wireshark filter to restrict results to the network you are interested in: ip.addr == 10.10.0.0/16 Since we are not specifying a source or destination (i.e. ip.src or ip.dst), the filter will match both. If you want to reverse it then: !(ip.addr == 10.10.0.0/16) I’ll often use the same method to filter the results on a specific IP address, preserving both ends of the conversation: ip.addr == 10.

Nslookup under osx is tricky to use interactively as it doesn’t support readline. When you try to use the command history you get the following: > ^[[A Argh! This means more typing. As far as I can remember it has always returned ^[[A or ^[[B depending on the arrow key used. After a bit of research it seems you can fix it with rlwrap which you can install via mac ports.