March 3rd, 2010 | Blog | No Comments »
here is a script to rename the local administrator password using powershell… it renames the administrator account to the “!computerName”…
Remember to run powershell as administrator.
$Bang = “!”
$NewComputerName = gc env:computername
$NewAdminAccount = $Bang+$NewComputerName $admin = [ADSI]“WinNT://./Administrator,user” $admin.psbase.Rename(“$NewAdminAccount”)
March 3rd, 2010 | Blog | No Comments »
A way to test to see if the server is pingable
PS > # Using .NET method to ping test the servers
PS > $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
PS > $ping.send($strComputer)
Status : Success
Address : 192.168.1.1
RoundtripTime : 0
Options : System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingOptions
Buffer : {97, 98, 99, 100…}
# Using .NET method to ping test the servers
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$Reply = $ping.send($strComputer)
if($Reply.status -eq “success”)
{
#Do something here …
}