Windows – Get a List of all Installed Programs (and Updates)
KB ID 0000619 Problem I needed to get a list of installed programs from a server I was having problems with, so I could compare the results with another server. Note: This will work on Windows client OS’s as well. Solution 1. On the machine in question launch a command window. 2. To display all the installed programs execute the following two commands; WMIC product get name,version 3. To export all the installed programs to a...
Windows – Backing up, Transferring, and Restoring Wireless Network Settings
KB ID 0000626 Problem If you have a machine setup and working on your wireless network, sometimes it’s easier to set other machines up by simply migrating the settings. Either because you don’t want your child to try and type in a 64 bit WPA key, or you might simply have forgotten the WEP/WPA key,and don’t want to go through all the hassle of setting it up again. In a small business environment you can give your...
Windows – Export / Recover WEP and WPA Wireless Keys
KB ID 0001015 Problem If you need to connect to your wireless network with a new machine and have forgotten the key, you can view the WEP or WPA key in cleartext using the following procedure on a machine that has connected before. Solution 1. First launch PowerShell, ensure you ‘Run as administrator’. 2. To show all the wireless profiles stored on this machine, issue the following command; netsh wlan show profiles 3....
Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy
KB ID 0000805 Problem I’ve briefly mentioned this before when I wrote about Group Policy Preferences so when I had to do this on-site this week, I jumped straight into the group policy management console, and found that because my ODBC connection was using SQL authentication (with the SQL sa account), this would NOT WORK, (it only works with Windows authentication and even then it needs a tweak). If you are using SQL...
Windows Server – Migrating DHCP Scopes
KB ID 0000447 Problem Normally you can just create a new scope on your new DHCP server, but if you have a lot of reservations that you don’t want to have to recreate (for printers network devices etc), then it’s a better option to migrate/copy the scope to the new server. Solution 1. Copy all the DHCP settings to a text file with the following command; netsh dhcp server export C:\dhcp.txt all 2. Stop and disable the DHCP...