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Author:R TeachoutCreated:6/15/1999 6:20 AM
Ramblings, SQL Scriptlets, VBS Scriptlets, Linux Stuff, and more!

Just run on source, then run the output on destination.  Voila!

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  1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
  2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
  3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
  4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.
  5. Type exit, and then press ENTER.

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Be able to Right Click on any directory, and make a "filelist.txt" file for that directory.  So simple, I do not know why this hasn't always been around!

Get a directory listing of all files in a directory and automatically output it to a txt file.

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Quick down and Dirty script to clone hard Drives in the free version of ESXi (assuming you have ssh access)

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Just a snippit I needed to run to resolve an issue - it is a dos script that re-takes ownership of a roaming profile, then re-sets up the user security, so it still runs

BE CAREFUL

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A bunch of notes I found online about terminal services roaming profiles

(targeted at a 2008 TS, at least that is what the article is referencing)

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Is This Possible?  NO, but you CAN ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL YOU WANT ANYWAY...Sorta, but it works !!!!

Getting queries to use multiple clustered indexes.

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Determine the MTU Size Limits of the full path of an internet route

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Can't figure out how to Activate Windows 2008 Server - If you installed from a Volume License CD, it never prompted you for the license key, so it will not activate.  Here is how to change the Product Key & then Activate the server.. easy!
(I've also included a number of other common activation stages you can "jump" to - and a shortcut on how to activate a windows 2008 core installation)

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how to use gdb to debug something in asterisk (I used this to help the chan_sccp_b developers to find a bug in the module unloading/loading process

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Force Windows to recheck and fix any "Windows File Protection" files - just a reminder of sfc commands

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Find Windows netstat port usage by Process id/name

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Just a "hack" way to fix this issue, without restarting the entire machine.

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Here is the quick how-to on easily installing NLB (which is no longer installed by default in 2008)

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I needed to disable AJAX on the profile pages in DNN due to a 4.8 bug, but I was using ajax in lots of other places, and didn't want to turn it off everywhere, so heres the fix.

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A must have list for sysadmins that are (or will) be managing IIS7.. a blog entry from the IIS7 Team

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I regularly have to look this up, so it was time to blog it!

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Web Deployment Team released the Beta 1 version of the deployment tool! If you're not familiar with the tool already, it is here to help you keep sites or servers in sync with IIS6 or IIS7, as well as migrate from IIS6 to IIS7

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Hate the vbs scripts that output results, and when you run them from wscript, you have to click 'OK' a few hundred times?  Ensure it is running from cscript with this little bit of code.

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Just a quick way to find the number of rows in all of your tables.

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Recommended steps to migrate a database from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005

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SELECT DAY(DATEADD(d, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,GETDATE())),DATEADD(m,1,GETDATE())))

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Ever wonder how to put a mssql table into RAM after it has been read?

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For years I have used a script that I had to manually add the ADO user to, and then run it on a database, take the results, and then execute them.  I finally got fed up with this, so I wrote a script I could use to automatically just run after I added a Stored Procedure, Function or User to a database, and have it just fix everything.  
SLICK!

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How to Find Orphaned Users on a database use database; exec sp_change_users_login 'Report'

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