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08 May 2022 Using RSAT Tools with Custom Taskpads
On-premises Active Directory is certainly going away. Soon it will be rare to find RSAT tools installed on any IT person’s laptop [or… maybe not?]. Looking back, I will miss a feature of the Users and Computers MMC snap-in that always seemed relatively obscure: the “taskpad”. The premise is simple….
08 May 2022 Finding WSD Printers with Powershell
WSD, or Web Services for Devices, is a printer port monitor that was developed by Microsoft around the time Vista was released. It doesn’t have a good reputation with system administrators - I’ve heard some try to disable it in the firmware of every printer that gets purchased in their…
22 Jan 2022 Simple PXE Server with CentOS and PartedMagic
PXE PartedMagic is a utility for wiping drives and recovering data. Until now, I have been using it on USB drives. However, it does support PXE booting functionality. I have CentOS 8 Stream running on a simple OptiPlex 9020. I am going to provision a VM so I don’t have…
11 Jan 2022 Cobbler for Bare Metal Provisioning
Before you begin: This should really be behind some kind of router. I am going to use an EdgeRouter X with no ports forwarded. The EdgeRouter will provide DHCP and DNS to its internal network of 10.0.0.0/24. First, create a new CentOS VM. I created mine on a CentOS host…