Saturday, July 29, 2006

AD / Server / XP Commands to remember

netdom [query fsmo - displays fsmo roles & their holders]
replmon (GUI)
repadmin
dcdiag [/fix]
netdiag [/fix]- can use /fix to reregister AD dns srv records
dsastat - compares 2 DCs to verify convergence (specify directory partition)
dsquery / dsmod / dsadd...
ntdsutil
adprep

sigverif.exe - Display a list of installed unsigned drivers
sfc.exe - system file checker- verifies all wfp (windows file protection) files are intact and in correct place.

fixboot.exe (recovery console) - rewrites boot.ini
ftonline - recovers data from fault tolerant disk configurations created in earlier versions of windows (eg NT4).

Convert c:/fs : ntfs (CLI ntfs conversion)

Very simple vb script to copy a file

Dim objFSOSet
objFSO = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "C:\test.txt", "D:\"

Also works for UNC paths:

Dim objFSOSet
objFSO = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "C:\test.txt", _ "\\AnotherPC\share$\Folder\test.txt"