Random Notes from the field - Stuff to remember

Here's a bunch of random notes of Windows stuff that I wanted to remember

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Get User who's logged on remotely

WMIC /NODE: "hostname"  COMPUTERSYSTEM GET USERNAME

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Sysprep

'A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine.' 

This error shows that sysprep was run multiple times on the machine, please open a command prompt, type: slmgr /dlv to view how many times of remaining Windows Activation count. Generally speaking, to sysprep the image on a single computer for multiple times, you need to configure the Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP | SkipRearm to 1 in the unattend.xml file. I am assuming whether you configure the Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC | SkipRearm to 1 instead of SPP, the SLC setting is deprecated and should not be used.  

As a work around of this problem, please type: regedit in the Start Search box to open Registry Editor, set the value of GeneralizationState under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\SysprepStatus to 7, then run sysprep again.

If the same issue still persists, please unistall the MSDTC and Reinstall it, then try the sysprep.

To uninstall MSDTC :- msdtc -uninstall

To reinstall  MSDTC :- msdtc –install

EVENT ID 1074 = Shutdown

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Open Network Connections

ncpa.cpl network connections 

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ReSync Time

w32tm /resync

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Extending Partition with DELL extpart 

DELL extpart c: 10240 

if this fails to see C: drive stop the indexing service and the windows search service and try again. Or the COMMVAULT services

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Check User account details

net user username /domain

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Check VSS

vssadmin list writers

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Powershell Eqiv TOP command

while (1) { ps | sort -desc cpu | select -first 30; sleep -seconds 2; cls }

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Turn Firewall Off

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

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Install Dot Net 3.5 on WinServer2012  (R: is DVD Drive)

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:R:\sources\sxs

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Get DEV Group Members

get-adgroupmember -identity DEV -Recursive | GET-ADUSER | SORT NAME | FORMAT-TABLE Name, Enabled -autosize

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extend the grace period on Win2008

 slmgr.vbs -dli

slmgr.vbs –rearm

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Clean up WINSXS

Windows 2008 Server

DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded

Windows 2012 R2

dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

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See with processor you have 32 or 64

echo %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%

AMD64 = 64Bit

x86 = 32Bit

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SNMP Tabs not showing 

From and elevated PowerShell prompt Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-SNMP 

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