I had to remove an application from a server the other day. After the uninstall the application left some of the services behind. The script below will remove the service from the services.msc console.
Of recent, Windows Update has been crashing the svchost.exe causing my network drives to show up as disconnected in windows explorer. This is causing many of my applications to fail. The error I was receiving was:
Faulting application svchost.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module msi.dll, version 3.1.4000.2435, fault address 0x00012780.
I have created a simple batch file to fix this error as opposed to doing this manually.
The new Time Zone patch from Microsoft breaks an application of mine called SalesLogix. After encountering this problem and finding no answers from SalesLogix, I started doing research myself. Even after uninstalling the update, SalesLogix still failed to run. I later found this is from registry entries which the uninstaller left behind. Below is my fix for this problem as there are currently no fixes from SalesLogix
UPDATE: SalesLogix has released a fix for this. As far as I know right now, it is only in Service Pack 6. I dont know of any other way to get this fix without upgrading to the latest service pack.
UPDATE: A new Windows update has the same effect. KB931836 will have the same effect asKB928388. Luckily the fix below will fix it also.
Recently, a friend of mine (who am I kidding I don't have friends) who works for a large tier 1 automotive Axel supplier told me of an issue with over 2000 laptops. He stated that their "NT" and "Desktop" groups could not fix an issue with their Broadcom wireless drivers.The problem was that the Broadcom utility used to change the built-in wireless devices from Ad-Hoc mode to Infrastructure mode was set to Ad-Hoc by default. Now users being what they are would not be able to do this for themselves, so the wireless division asked the aformentioned groups to try to solve the issue, but was told "sorry". They the wireless guys would have to fix all of the laptops by hand (using remote access). Well,first off this is crazy! I told my buddy I could write a script to fix the issue.
The script below is for the following WLAN NICs and laptops:
I needed a script that could search thru log files and fing an email address. This script can do just that! I used some code I found on the Internet and modified if for my purposes! I hope you like this script.
I was assigned one point to manage power profiles for the entire network. After doing much searching I did end up finding something. It is a Group Policy Administrative Template which allows you to configure the power profiles. This came in real handy and saved me a lot of time so I wanted to mirror the information here. Credit for this goes to the original author at http://www.terranovum.com/projects/energystar/ez_gpo.php
