Author: Eswar Koneti

Web Slices When you spot the green Web Slices icon on a site, click it. If something changes on that site, the Web Slices icon in your Favorites bar lights up. Point to the glowing icon to see what’s changed on a particular Website. Instant search Instant search in IE8  displays a list of relevant suggestions the moment you start typing. Accelerators Just highlight some text, then click the blue Accelerator icon that appears to see information on different sites without navigating to other websites. Compatibility View If a webpage doesn’t look right, just click the new Compatibility View button on…

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new security feature that provides better data protection for your computer, by encrypting all data stored on the Windows operating system volume. In Windows 7, a volume consists of one or more partitions on one or more hard disks. BitLocker works with simple volumes, where one volume is one partition. A volume usually has a drive letter assigned, such as "C:" A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a microchip that is built into a computer. It is used to store cryptographic information, such as encryption keys. Information stored on the TPM can be more…

Wake-on-LAN is an Ethernet computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or woken up by a network message. The message is usually sent by a simple program executed on another computer on the local area network. Equivalent terms include Wake-on-LAN or Wake on LAN (WOL or WoL), and Remote Wake-Up (RWU). In case the computer being woken is communicating via Wi-Fi, the wake-up-packet can be sent via Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WMM). [1] This may also be called Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN). [2] Wakeup over Wi-Fi networks was not possible in previous implementations of Wake-on-LAN. Wake-on-LAN is…

This is quite simple to create a bootable ISO image to capture winXP or Win7.On the technician computer ,install WAIK tool Downlaod it from here . 1.On technician system launch ‘Windows PE Tools Command Prompt’ from ‘Microsoft Windows AIK’ on the Programs Menu. The entire CD build process is performed in this CMD window. 2.To begin building a Windows PE CD type: copype.cmd amd64 c:\winpe_x64 3.Now mount the Windows PE boot image as a folder on your machine so that it may be edited by typing the following: imagex /mountrw c:\Winpe_x64\winpe.wim 1 c:\Winpe_x64\mount 4.To copy servicing tools into the mounted PE image, type: xcopy "C:\Program…

Hi all ,Another report to find out the servers where IIS is installed with the version of it.this assumes that ,you have enabled the inventory agent and set the properties for .exe to not exclude windows folder.If you select exclude files from windows directory,you will not see any results in the report because inetmgr.exe will be located in windows folder. select distinct a.Name0,c.FileVersion from v_R_System a inner join v_GS_SERVICE b on b.ResourceID = a. ResourceID inner join v_GS_SoftwareFile c on c.ResourceID=a.ResourceID where b.DisplayName0 like 'World Wide Web%' and a.Operating_System_Name_and0 like '%Server%'  and c.FileName ='inetmgr.exe' Order by a.Name0,c.FileVersion 

Are you looking to identify the machines which are having lessthan 512 MB running with Office 2007 or OFfice 2003 with the operating System Installed.If so you can use the below simple SQL query into your reports. Create a New Report and name it as ' Machines with Lessthan 512 MB RAM' as you like.In the SQL statement,click on Edit SQL statement and paste the below query.Click ok and run the report. SELECT     dbo.v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Name0 AS [Computer Name],            dbo.v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM.Caption0 AS [Operating System],            dbo.v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM.CSDVersion0 AS [Service Pack],            dbo.v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Model0, dbo.v_GS_PC_BIOS.Manufacturer0,            MAX(dbo.v_GS_X86_PC_MEMORY.TotalPhysicalMemory0) AS [Physical Memory (KBytes)],            a.DisplayName0 ,a.version0 FROM dbo.v_GS_LOGICAL_DISK INNER…

There might be some scenarios where in you would like to fetch computers with IE Versions, how many of them have IE8, IE9 ,how many of them do not have IE8 etc. Through this post,i wanted to give some useful SQL quires and collections which would help you to create to meet your requirement . The below is query that can be used to get all IE 7 machines.This assumes that , you have enabled software inventory client agent and by default, *.exe is listed. Create a new report and paste the following the query.This can be customized as per…

This VB script might help you in initiating the communication between WindowsUpdateAgent(Client) and WindowsUpdateServer(Server) for windows updates. ' ---------------START CODE--------------- strComputer = inputbox("Enter a computer name to run WUA detectnow","Invoke detectnow") if strComputer = "" then wscript.quit on error goto 0 Set autoUpdateClient = CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.AutoUpdate",strComputer) AutoUpdateClient.detectnow() wscript.echo "Client Communication initiated with WSUS Server." ' ----------------END CODE-----------------