We had to do this last January and this was supposed to be a job that shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete but it took us a few hours due to the lack of documentation (our biggest issue was how to reset the firewall to factory defaults because no one knew the password for it, the person who originally configured the second firewall left a while back). SonicWALL no longer supports this product …
I’m sure you’ve heard or read many stories before about laptops getting stolen containing thousands/hundreds of thousands of records on patients/customers/etc. Those records usually include very sensitive information such as a person’s Social Security Number. And a lot of times the data on those stolen laptops were not encrypted!!! Now those people are at high risk of identity theft. This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if they took an extra step of saving …
Below are some simple PowerShell scripts that I find pretty useful in Windows administration:
Note: For the scripts that connect to a remote machine, you will need to run PowerShell as a user with Administrator privileges to that machine.
Aliases:
Get a list of installed applications for a specified machine (32-bit OS only).
Gwmi Win32_Product -Comp computer_name | Sort name | ft name, …
Here’s a nice PHP framework called P4A (stands for PHP For Applications) for those interested in creating web applications quickly. I’ve built a few web applications for work using this framework and I really like how fast you can build things with it. You don’t even need to know much about PHP to get started (I’ve never worked with PHP before I started playing around with this framework). As long as you know some basic …