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Techmentor San Francisco 2008

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks

I finished up my slide decks last week for the first Techmentor conference of the year in San Francisco (March 30 -April 3). If you’ve never been to a Techmentor conference you’re missing a great opportunity to hear and see … Continue reading →

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Conference Samples Available

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Jeffery Hicks

The demos, updated slide decks and other stuff for the Fall Techmentor conference, as well as the 2 day PowerShell pre-conference event before WinConnections last week, are now available for download at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp. I think I spent half of November … Continue reading →

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PWDMan Update

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve updated my Password Manager utility. If you haven’t seen this, I wrote about it in my Mr. Roboto column. This tool will scan computers and report the age of the local administrator password. If you’ve renamed the account you … Continue reading →

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NT Servers and WMI

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Jeffery Hicks

My Mr. Roboto tools and scripts often need WMI. If your servers and desktops are running Windows 2000 or later this is no big deal. However, if you are still running Windows NT4.0 servers, these scripts and tools will fail. … Continue reading →

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Updated Logon Script Generator

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Jeffery Hicks

Last fall I demonstrated an HTA I had developed to rapidly develop a user logon script with practically no scripting. You could map drives and printers based on group membership simply be selecting a group from a pre-populated drop down … Continue reading →

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Password Reset Manager 1.3

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Jeffery Hicks

My first Mr.Roboto column for Redmond Magazine is now online. In the article I talk about my free password reset tool, PWDMan. I demo’ed it at Techmentor last fall and it seemed pretty popular. I’ve made some improvements since then … Continue reading →

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Mr. Roboto is coming

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Jeffery Hicks

I will be taking over the Mr. Roboto column for REDMOND Magazine. If you’ve seen the column, I don’t know if I’ll be wearing the shiny Borg suit that Don Jones used to wear. It chafes a little but nothing … Continue reading →

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