Most GUI issue have been resolved in firmware 1.4 but if you find that you are locked out of the web GUI and you have SSH enabled you can restart the service to sort the issue. Obviously contact Netgear Support before doing this. Use Tera Term or similar to connect to the 5200 on port… Read More »
If your suffering problems with the replicate between 2 NAS and you’ve already ruled out networking issues then you can access SSH and restart the following services and it generally solves the problem. Obviously contact Netgear support first Enable SSH via the web GUI, I suggest you leave this enabled just in case you lose… Read More »
Recently I had an issue where a user moved a spreadsheet that contained hundreds of hyperlinks to files stored on the server. Obviously once moved none of the links worked and I was tasked with trying to change all these links without spending weeks doing it manually. The only real option is to create a… Read More »
If you need to set the out of office for multiple users you can use a powershell script Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration ALIAS -AutoReplyState scheduled -StartTime “07/12/2013 14:05:00” -EndTime “08/05/2013 08:00:00” -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage $oof -ExternalMessage $oof where the variable $oof is a predefined message. $oof = “I’m not in the office currently” Here I’ll give a more… Read More »
Signature Setup Source Files Many companies provide software to add signatures to emails you send out and even Exchange has the ability to text to the bottom of users emails. With the help of several forums I’ve made the following script. What it does is creates a Outlook signature file and sets it as default… Read More »
I give this script to remote users so they can remove the Proxy settings when off site. set WshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 strComputer = “.” Set objRegistry = GetObject(“winmgmts:\” & strComputer & “rootdefault:StdRegProv”) strKeyPath = “SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings” wshshell.run “tskill iexplore /a” strValueName = “ProxyEnable” dwValue = 0 objRegistry.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, strValueName, dwValue… Read More »
A simple script that will map printers for users based on either the computer name or OU the computer is in, very handy if users roam between computers. Create the following script, save it in an accessible share such as netlogon and set it to run as a user startup script via GPO. ‘================================================== ‘PrinterMapping.vbs… Read More »
This is something that seems to effect a lot of companies, clients well out of date and staying powered on all night. In order to shutdown machines we can use simple startup scripts via GPO to create schedule tasks. We can use the same technique to run a VBS script that will check for Updates… Read More »
Forcing shutdown can be done easily by creating a scheduled task on clients issuing the shutdown command. I create these tasks with a simple computer startup script run via a GPO. BasicScheduleTaskCreator.bat REM Delete existing tasks schtasks.exe /delete /TN Shutdown /f schtasks.exe /delete /TN Log_Off /f REM Create new tasks schtasks.exe /create /SC WEEKLY /D MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI,SAT /ST 21:00:00 /TN… Read More »
Having problems when users try to open a office document that is already open by another user but it doesn’t show the username. The problem usually resides around a missing registry key at HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeCommonUserInfo run the following VBS script as a logon script to set the registry key correctly. on error Resume Next const HKEY_CURRENT_USER… Read More »