Quick Bytes IT Stuff

One of the task of a Windows Admin is to know what OSes are running on his or her environment. Aside from checking what type of OSes are running, making sure also that CPU and Memory on users computers are suitable enough, so users can be productive. If the user doesn't have enough resources to run any software to do users tasks won't be  productive at all since and may end up consuming a lot of coffee than doing their work. :) So, as an IT Admin checking all these things will help to have a smooth operations. IP Address is the communication link of the device to the router, and the IP Address also links to the hostname or computer name and will be ultimately linked also to the logged in user. Example, deploying a specific software to a single user. IP Address must be known  in advanced or else the software being deployed might end up in someone else computer and can be disastrous if the license will be tied automatically to the hostname or IP Address.  WMIC command below...

WSUS or Windows Server Update Services is patching system for Windows OSes and other Microsoft products. In Windows 2016 or another version of Windows server it’s quite straight forward to install or config ure WSUS. Make sure the server has enough memory and has sufficient space to download and store updates. Plan accordingly the computer groups in WSUS, like 1 group for Testing updates and 1 group for production or other methods or strategy that is right for the environment. Configuring WSUS should be straight forward but in some instances, it may not work right after installing the WSUS server role. First, install and configure WSUS server role. Second, configure GPO to point to WSUS server. If the clients will not know where to find or report to a WSUS server then WSUS sever will be empty. WSUS server will not be able to detect client or server devices. In GPO you need to set the settings of how you are going to carry out the updates, like the time to ins...

Fuji scanning results to an error with a job status of Completed with error Data read failure from SMB server and the error code is 027-529. There are various reasons why an error or a failure occurs. And for that reason, there are also quite a lot of ways how to resolve the issue. The description or the message of the error, sometimes will give you a hint on how to solve the error and sometimes it is just a general error message that is not completely related to the actual problem. Therefore, you must be creative and resourceful on how to solve problems. Of course, if you can keep track of recent changes done on the system. Then there’s a bigger chance that the issue surfaces because of the changes implemented on the system or in your network environment. 027-529 error on a Fuji Xerox machine and with a Windows 10 client, the error message will give you a hint already. The error stated that there’s a data read failure on the SMB server. When it comes to a...

Searching files with regex will come in handy provided you know the pattern you want to look for. Searching for files that you don't have any clue or idea which one to find is such a dreadful situation. Regex will help to filter files base on the pattern set from a fragmented memory due to multi-tasking world. For example, you are quite sure that the file you're looking for starts with s and followed by letter k. So files like skype_password.txt, skew animation.mp4, skbanner.logo, skin.css, skilled-listing.docx or any files that begins with "sk" will be filtered. Here's the PowerShell code to do it: #=================== $regx_filters = get-childitem "c:\all_files_n_rumble\" -recurse | where-object {$_.name -match '^s[k]' } Write-Output $regx_filters   #=================== To get folder or directory names with regex: #=================== $regexPattern ="^l[i]" Get-ChildItem -Path "...

Powershell script below will sort files base on its last write time, it will select the files and move the selected files to another folder. This script will remove the first 3 old files base on the lastwritetime property, quite useful to archive files or grouping large files into multiple folders. #=====Code Snippet Start $xfiles= Get-ChildItem d:\the_log_folder |  Sort-Object -Property @{Expression={$_.LaswriteTime}; Ascending = $true} | Select-Object -first 3 | select fullname | ft -HideTableHeaders write $xfiles >  d:\move_files_listing.txt ForEach ($movefiles in (Get-Content "d:\move_files_listing.txt")) {        If ($movefiles[1].Length –gt 0) {       move-item $movefiles d:\the_archive_folder       write $movefiles      } } #=====Code Snippet Ends Code explanation: --# Sort-Object -Property @{Expression={$_.LaswriteT...

Login process should be quick and fast, so every user will be happy and start the day smoothly. But not every day is a new year’s day and there are times that things will just go south and some issues will surface. Enabling verbose login in local group policy will definitely help to troubleshoot which part of the login process the system halts and takes a long time to process. Folder redirection for some reason will cause an issue that will take time to load the desktop or causes a login issue. There are quite a lot of reasons why a GPO takes time to process, and causes login issue. But if a computer or workstation has been working fine and all of a sudden gives a logon issue; no changes has been made on the server or GPO. Then an issue could occur at the workstation or client side. One solution that might work on this kind of scenario is to open an elevated command prompt and issue this command on the problematic user computer: Netsh winsock reset ...