Like a lot of folks in IT there have been a lot of times where I have to uninstall something from a machine and don’t want to involve the user.  Sometimes the reason that the software has to come off is that the user shouldn’t have put it there in the first place too.  PSExec has always been an option […]

Lets say you are in a position where you need to uninstall something from a remote machine for whatever reason…maybe it’s software that’s no longer needed, maybe the user shouldn’t have installed it, or maybe you just want to mess with someone.  Me personally, I would rather do this remotely than go to the person’s machine and interrupt whatever they […]

I can’t begin to count how many times I have been asked to set an Out Of Office message for someone over the years.  Standard reply has always seemed like a cop out to people I’m sure but generally it has kind of always come back to an HR thing and not accessing someone else’s email.  NO MORE!  While its […]

Recently I had an issue in my environment on a reasonably old and very slow system, one of those machines that does something very specific and always works.  The problem is that I was going to replace the hard drive and I had to clean up a backup folder that it had.  On a very slow hard drive deleting some […]