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Listing firewall exceptions with PowerShell - yes we can
On an internal PowerShell scripting DL the question was posed as to how one would get a list of applications with firewall exceptions. Here was the answer that I sent: function getfwexceptions { $fwmgr = ( new - object -com hnetcfg.fwmgr).localpolicy.currentprofile Read More...
Sysinternals tools from the web? You betcha
Did you know that you can access and even run Sysinternals tools right from the Internet? http://live.sysinternals.com/ I tend to use them like this... C:\utils>pushd \\live.sysinternals.com Z:\>strings /accepteula c:\utils\stringtest.txt Strings Read More...
Quick 'n Dirty Patch Validation
Since patching is currently on the brain I thought that I'd also include this little VBScript that I wrote a while back to do a quick 'n dirty patch validation. The script takes two arguments 1) a file with the servers to target (one per line) and 2) Read More...
Doc, do you think you can patch 'em up?
To some of you the second Tuesday of each month is just another day, but to the rest of us this day is known as "patch Tuesday". The second Tuesday of each month is when Microsoft releases security updates for it's products to the world. Our group previously Read More...
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