RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-04 Thread Sam Cayze
I got sick of always doing this during DR Test restores, so I set it at the GPO level on all my systems. Done and done for good. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Neat tip

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
my systems. Done and done for good. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Neat tip of the week Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need for it. Ever have a VM

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: while your setting environment variables, add 'prompt $T$_$P$G' , adds time to the path at the prompt, VERY useful for troubleshooting Why, so when you find the command prompt window sitting at RMDIR /S C:\ you

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
gotta clean my keyboard now, thanks for the laugh ! On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: while your setting environment variables, add 'prompt $T$_$P$G' , adds time to the path at the

RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Almost: rd /s /q c:\ :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Neat tip of the week gotta clean my keyboard now

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Anders Blomgren
Start cmd.exe Type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 Type: devmgmt.msc Same thing without the reboot. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 3 jan 2012, at 07:22, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need for it. Ever have a VM that when

RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Subject: Re: Neat tip of the week Start cmd.exe Type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 Type: devmgmt.msc Same thing without the reboot. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 3 jan 2012, at 07:22, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need

RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread David Lum
I'll be damned, even mo' bettah, thanks! Dave -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Neat tip of the week Just to amplify what you saidyou need to start devmgmt.msc

RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Glen Johnson
Set it using the gui, under System environment variables and my experience is no reboot needed. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Neat tip of the week I'll be damned, even mo

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Erik Goldoff
issue the set command from, so it picks it up. -Original Message- From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Neat tip of the week Start cmd.exe Type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 Type

RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread David Lum
Which is the part my tip had :) Dave From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Neat tip of the week unless you make it global and permanent by entering in the System Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables

RE: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
Nice! -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Neat tip of the week Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need for it. Ever have a VM that when you assigned it an IP

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Leone
On 1/3/2012 10:59 AM, Crawford, Scott wrote: Nice! -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Neat tip of the week Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need for it. Ever

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pushing to have that variable set in our GPOs, so it's always set, just in case ... Yah, it does seem like that stuff should be shown by default. Or at the very least, available as an option in the GUI under View. If

Re: Neat tip of the week

2012-01-03 Thread Steven Peck
AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/3/2012 10:59 AM, Crawford, Scott wrote: Nice! -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Neat tip of the week Ok so this is an ld tip

Neat tip of the week

2012-01-02 Thread David Lum
Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need for it. Ever have a VM that when you assigned it an IP address it complained that (and I am paraphrasing) a hidden network device also has this IP address and if it becomes active there will be a conflict but when you go to device