Sysprep Windows Windows 8.1

Keeping drivers after running sysprep

When building an image that is to be used on multiple machines of the same type, it’s useful to keep the drivers after running SYSPREP. To do this run the following prior to SYSPREP Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Settings\sppnp Select Edit – New DWORD value Name the new value PersistAllDeviceInstalls Set to a value of 1 and […]

Anti Virus Clamav Server 2012 Windows

Installing ClamAV on Windows Server 2012

This documents how I got ClamAV (clamd) working on Windows Server 2012 I downloaded the 64 bit package <clamav-0.99-x64.msi> from sourceforge UPDATE: 01/2020 – The download location has moved to: https://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions I then created folders, as I wanted everything in the root of c:\ I have: c:\ClamAV-Conf\ c:\ClamAV-x64 |-\db |-\log Created config files: clamd.conf TCPAddr […]

Linux VMWare Windows

HP Smart array CLI commands

HP Smart array CLI commands (these should apply to any system with the CLI installed) Show configuration /opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli ctrl all show config Controller status /opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli ctrl all show status Show detailed controller information for all controllers /opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli ctrl all show detail Show detailed controller information for controller in slot 0 /opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli ctrl slot=0 show detail […]

Windows

Windows 7 Environment variables

Windows 7 Environment variables The variables most likely apply to later versions of Windows too. Variable name Value %ALLUSERSPROFILE% (%PROGRAMDATA%) C:\ProgramData %APPDATA% C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming %COMPUTERNAME% {computername} %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% C:\Program Files\Common Files %COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)% C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files %COMSPEC% C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe %HOMEDRIVE% C: %HOMEPATH% \Users\{username} %LOCALAPPDATA% C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local %LOGONSERVER% \\{domain_logon_server} %PATH% C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;{plus program paths} %PATHEXT% .com;.exe;.bat;.cmd;.vbs;.vbe;.js;.jse;.wsf;.wsh;.msc %PROGRAMFILES% C:\Program Files %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% C:\Program […]

Windows

Get Windows server uptime

To find server uptime: (this works on server 2008 / Vista / Windows 7 & 8 / server 2012) systeminfo | findstr “Boot” Output: System Boot Time: 13/01/2016, 10:59:27 Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume1 The command net statistics server will also provide the server up time, as well as many other related statistics.

Windows

Windows command line for various control panel options

Control panel tool Command —————————————————————– Accessibility Options control access.cpl Add New Hardware control sysdm.cpladd new hardware Add/Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl Date/Time Properties control timedate.cpl Display Properties control desk.cpl FindFast control findfast.cpl Fonts Folder control fonts Internet Properties control inetcpl.cpl Joystick Properties control joy.cpl Keyboard Properties control main.cpl keyboard Microsoft Exchange control mlcfg32.cpl (or Windows Messaging) […]