A customer reported that their computer had become unstable and has been crashing. Firing up BlueScreenView revealed that the driver fltsrv.sys was the culprit. After checking out the file it was clear that this driver belonged to Acronis. Installed Program Files showed the customer had True Image 2013 installed. As the client was now using our Managed…
DetailsI had a customer today that couldn’t log into their WordPress Admin account and asked if I could assist. Through the users cPanel I was able to reset the password using the steps below. Log into your cPanel and locate Softaclous under the Software Section. In the Top Right click on the All Installations…
DetailsIn the past I’ve had to recover passwords from certain applications that customers don’t have or have simply forgotten. Here is a simple class I’ve written to generate key combinations used in brute force password cracking. Public Class cComboGenerator Dim Positions() As Byte Dim MaxLength As Integer = 10 Dim bCharSet() As Byte Dim bCombo() As Byte Public Sub…
DetailsWHM has a great backup feature which lets you offload all your backups to Amazon S3. Its simple to setup and frees up your server space. Although setting up is easy, restoring from S3 is not quite as easy. The backups do not show up for users to restore themselves and nor do they show…
DetailsA while ago I wrote a service monitor to watch for service crashes, it wasn’t the greatest as it just checked the service status at a defined interval and restarted it if it wasn’t running. This was not the best method ans since I lost the source, I decided to find a better way. Basically…
DetailsHave you ever wanted to monitor a backup software that wasn’t supported yet? Sure, you could write a normal check for it and have it pass or fail. But when the reporting comes out it says its just a normal script check, when in reality you want it to show as a backup check. So here…
DetailsHere is a repost of an old script of mine. This helps prevent the uninstall of certain software through Control Panel User the /Software switch to specify the software name. /Remove:True will remove the block so you can uninstall it again. const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000 const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002…
DetailsAfter being told the same thing again and again, Turn patch management off. Turn it back on again. I decided to dig deeper into what the actual problem with Patch Management was. (Well, at least what problems I was having) After some testing I was able to trace the problem back to the Contend Delivery…
DetailsLooks like this is still needed unfortunately. This script just puts in a simple service that checks every 5min if the agent service is running. If not, it will fire it back up again. 5min should me more than enough for agent updates to take place without causing any problems. But like all scripts posted…
DetailsHere is another little script that checks the S.M.A.R.T Parameters for a HDD and checks the status. Also Returns the output so can analyse further. As always, if you would like to buy me a beer you can do so using this link. <# .NOTES =========================================================================== Created on: 21/02/2016 12:24 AM Created by: Jake Paterrnoster…
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