2019 and a brand new post. Things have moved on so it is time to move to something new. In this case out with Jekyll and in with Hugo! So this calls for a brand new page. I guess I’m going to have to workout markup~~…~~

Configuration files can be long and complex and it is hard to see which values have been set. There are numerous ways to do this however, grep with -v (–invert-match) is a quick way to achieve this. The following example removes all the comments from an elasticsearch configuration file: ed@es01:~$ sudo grep -v ‘#’ /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml Which returns: cluster.name: es node.name: es01 network.host: 10.1.10.187 discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["10.1.10.187", "10.1.10.124"] discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 2 Five lines where it is easy to see what has been configured.

Update Note, if you are looking to search for DHCP information across all or multiple DHCP servers in the forest then this is a quicker method. The below is still valid if you are searching a single server. Sometimes in a large infrastructure it can be hard to find new devices added to the network. Being able to search on MAC address across all DHCP scopes comes in handy. With powershell and Windows DHCP server this is easy to do.

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 use the wired connection at the same time as the wireless connection recently and was unable to. 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 due to power options, understandability to reduce load on batteries. However this time it turned out to be windows that is causing this. TLDR, to find the culprit setting run: