Recently my Exchange server got pounded by spammers that were attacking my NDR (non delivery report) capabilities. Turning off NDRs helped 75% and I explored Exchange quite a bit along the way to figure out that last 25%.

It seems that I had 180 emails stuck in my queue. I was looking at my logs and ethereal and it …

This may only be useful for wscript.exe so it may not have universal appeal but I'll list it anyway. The first script is to be inserted at the top of the wscript file you'd like to monitor. The second file is to be run as a scheduled task. SQL Server is used to keep track of the PIDs. SQL Server Express is free so you …

This is a barebones script that gathers server events across a domain and stores them in SQL Server using asyncronous notifications as seen in this sample of the code:

strWQL = "Select * from __InstanceCreationEvent where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_NTLogEvent'" objWMIService.ExecNotificationQueryAsync …

Windows, like Unix, has an "at" command. It's basically a command-line interface for Task Scheduler. I use it rather often but haven't memorized the syntax so I've decided to put it here in my blog. Here is example syntax for running a VBS script:

at 12:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su %SystemDirectory%\cscript.exe …

This bandaid is mighty handy for pesky OSX disconnects. I don't really know what causes it and unfortunately, I don't have time to fully figure it out. I do know that changing my gateway back to my local gateway helped tremendously. Also, changing my default nameserver to a local nameserver helped too. Now, I get …

This code is part of a bigger project I'm working on. It checks the disk space for each logical drive and, if the space is below one gigabyte, reports it to Event Viewer at a max of once per day.

'**************************************************************************** ' This script created by Chrissy LeMaire ( …

Find IIS Servers on your domain (or with modifications, your subnet) using this script

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ' Author: Chrissy LeMaire ' Copyright 2003 NetNerds Consulting Group ' Script is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and assumes no …

I love parsing through IIS logfiles but I dislike the directory structure that Microsoft creates for IIS logging. Each site has a randomly generated directory name so, for example, "netnerds.net" could store its files in "C:\windows\system32\logfiles\W3SVC720199813." Who wants to track that down? …

I recently sent out a newsletter to everyone who had any communicatoin with RealCajunRecipes.com. I had an Exchange Mailbox that collected all emails sent using the Tell-A-Friend feature of the website as well as the guestbook, ask maw-maw, and general website comments. I'd forgotten to automatically subscribe these …

The code below was written pretty quickly. It backs up the Wordpress directory, the mySQL table, zips it then emails it to the specified gmail account. Mutt must be installed.. change the variables to suit your environment.

#!/bin/sh theDate=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d`

######### backup DB ########## /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -A …