The UltraTech Zone

As if we needed another reason... A security researcher has found a way hackers can make PCs of unsuspecting Web surfers do their dirty work, without having to actually commandeer the systems. That's possible with a new security tool called Jikto. The tool is written in JavaScript and can make PCs of unknowing Web surfers hunt for flaws in Web ...

The full scripting repository can be downloaded here, including the instructions for setting up replication. No actual 3rd party utilities are included, to avoid running afoul of licensing terms, the a list of the necessary utilities is available.  

And here's a zip file of the script plus its associated input files and some documentation about setting up your own script archive.  

In an ongoing stream of end-of-year releases from Microsoft, we're finally able to get our hands on the RTM version of Windows PowerShell. See the PowerShell Blog for more details:  For those of you unfamiliar with Windows PowerShell, it is a best of breed next-generation commandline shell designed from the ground up ...

Sort of. Perhaps, within a couple of hours it will really be available, but right now, all I can point you to is a link from Microsoft that says it is available.  It doesn't look like it has been posted (or replicated, as the case might be) as yet. A draft of the release notes can be found on the PowerShell Team Blog site, which shows ...

I just had to write about this, because it is clear that Windows PowerShell is going to be a critical component of any Windows Admin's arsenal going forward. As soon as I can get a handle on String Manipulation, I'll be a really happy camper. Here's a quick script for enumerating shares: $strServerList = get-content -Path ...

Consule output from a tiny PowerShell Script

Windows Live Writer is turning out to be one of those tools that I can't live without, much as I originally suspected. And it has been made even more useful with a collection of Plug-ins posted on CodePlex, and sponsored by Keyvan Nayyeri. I've just started testing the plug-ins, and they are pretty cool. I do wish that the ''Insert ...

When you install the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on your system, you gain some nifty command-line tools for managing group policies. Still, some things have to be scripted if you're going to be efficient.  Even though scripting with VBS would be more powerful, sometimes it's just easier to jump into Windows Shell scripting to get ...

Okay, it looks like I was able to get everything working on the site in terms of Community Server modules. I even got the Community-Credit add-on to work, although I'm not sure why the behavior was different with my home system and my publicly hosted one.  (A couple of thoughts come to mind, but I'll test them out later.) By mid-September, ...

Windows 2000 or later required (some commands are native to XP/2003 only) Non-Native Utilities Required: Blat PSTOOLS Unix Ports Resource Kit This script requires the NT Resource Kit as well as quite a few other utilities such as BLAT, various PSTOOLS from SysInternals, and ports of Unix utils (e.g. HEAD, TAIL). You ...