Sweet computer stuff I have found
So one day I left a Voyo A1 mini tablet charging for a little too long, I thought, oh well – I will replace the battery at a later time and just leave it in a box for now.
Leaving an over charged Li-ion battery in a box for 7 months isn’t the best things to do ….
Sorting some things out some time later I found the unit and wondered why the box wouldn’t shut completely, a peak in side and I see the below! luckily the box wasn’t kept next to a heat source as i guess things could of been worse.
As you can see this blog is now being hosted from Blog.AdieNicholls.co.uk (or AdieNicholls.co.uk/blog).
In the past I have moved WordPress installs from development to live and also live migrations without any issues until I came to move this site.
I had carried out all the normal steps to moving a WP install;
The below script will remotely query MS Windows 7+ for what version of Internet Explore a PC has installed.
Ensure you have PSEXEC installed and ready for use, more info here
Save the below to a ‘.bat’ file of whatever name you like. On running the batch file you will be asked for a hostname, enter the hostname and press the enter key.
Once the Enter key is selected the system will return what version of IE is installed on the remote PC.
@echo off REM ********************************************* REM A.Nicholls REM http://www.adienicholls.co.uk/blogs REM 25/05/2016 REM ********************************************* :start REM Get remote PCs hostname set /p id=Enter Hostname: psexec \\%id% -h cmd /c reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" /v "svcVersion" Goto Start :end
Use this script to run a program remotely. In this scenario the script is used to install IE9 onto a remote MS Windows 7 machine.
PSTools Download Link
Save the below script as a ‘.bat’ file.
Update the script to reflect the network share where the IE9 (or other) install / upgrade package is stored.
On running the script you will be shown a CMD box asking for an asset tag (also known as hostname). Enter the PC asset tag, select Enter… The Script will connect to the remote computer, copy the installation file over to a C:\temp folder, run the installer using the switches provided and the delete the file once completed.
The script should return an ‘error’ code of 0, this means the installation completed with no issues.
@echo off REM ********************************************* REM A.Nicholls REM http://www.adienicholls.co.uk/blogs REM 25/05/2016 REM ********************************************* REM Get remote PCs hostname set /p id=Enter Hostname: REM Copy the install file from source to destination PC robocopy \\Server\shared\ms\ie9 \\%id%\c$\temp\ *.exe /r:0 /w:0 REM executes the copied file through CMD psexec \\%id% cmd.exe /c "c:\temp\IE9-Windows7-x86-enu.exe" /quiet /closeprograms /update-no /norestart REM verifying return codes ECHO ________________________________________________________________ ECHO (1) Error, opps something went wrong ECHO (0) Installation Succeeded ECHO ________________________________________________________________ REM Cleanup - Delete the previously copied file psexec \\%id% cmd.exe /c DEL "c:\temp\IE9-Windows7-x86-enu.exe" /q REM providing a cleaner exit code for the file deletion if ERRORLEVEL 1 echo *****OOPS, couldnt remove the file***** if ERRORLEVEL 0 echo cleanup completed pause
Use the below script to run a profile cleanup on a remote computer running MS Widows Vista or newer
You will need to download DelProf2 and save it to your PC or a shared network location. Download from here
Save the below script as a ‘.bat’ file, Update the robocopy path of where your delprof2 application is being stored.
Running the batch file will present a CMD window asking for the asset tag (also known as hostname) of the PC this task is to be run on.
On entering an asset tag the script will start the remoteregistry service of the remote PC, copy the DelProf2 application across to the local PC and then run the program using the defined criteria
To customize the DelProf2 criteria see the above link for syntax and examples.
@echo off REM ********************************************* REM A.Nicholls REM http://www.adienicholls.co.uk/blogs REM 25/05/2016 REM ********************************************* REM Get remote PCs hostname set /p id=Enter Hostname: REM this line starts the remote registry service psexec \\%id% cmd.exe /c "net start remoteregistry" REM Copies the DelProf application to your local PC robocopy \\Servername\Shared\DelProf c:\ DelProf2.exe /r:0 /w:0 REM Executes DelProf with a config C:\DelProf2.exe -c:%id% /u /ed:admin* /d:90 pause
