Month: August 2009

Available on myITforum.com, of course.

Its available for download from the Scripting downloads page:

http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/default.asp?w=3&se=Scripting

Or, grab it with this direct download link:

KiXtart 2010 4.61 RC2

As promised last week, here is the interview I had with Tim Mintner at TechEd North America in Los Angeles.

Interview with Tim Mintner « The Realm of the Verbal Processor

We are happy to announce a small bug-fix release of BlogJet. It fixes connection issues with some Blogger blogs, and includes an updated extension for Firefox 3.x.

BlogJet 2.0.1.4 Released

Just placing this as a placeholder for myself, but I’m sure others need this information on the fly sometimes.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>shutdown /?
Usage: shutdown [/i | /l | /s | /r | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f]
    [/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]

    No args    Display help. This is the same as typing /?
    /?         Display help. This is the same as not typing any options
    /i         Display the graphical user interface (GUI).
               This must be the first option
    /l         Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d option
    /s         Shutdown the computer
    /r         Shutdown and restart the computer
    /a         Abort a system shutdown.
               This can only be used during the time-out period
    /p         Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning.
               This can only be used with /d option
    /h         Hibernate the local computer.
               This can only be used with the /f option
    /e         Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a computer
    /m \\computer Specify the target computer
    /t xxx     Set time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
               The valid range is 0-600, with a default of 30
    /c "comment" Comment on the reason for the restart or shutdown.
               Maximum of 127 characters allowed
    /f         Force running applications to close without forewarning users
    /d [p:]xx:yy  Provide the reason for the restart or shutdown
               p indicates that the restart or shutdown is planned
               xx is the major reason number (positive integer less than 256)
               yy is the minor reason number (positive integer less than 65536)

Available on myITforum.com, of course.

Its available for download from the Scripting downloads page:

http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/default.asp?w=3&se=Scripting

Or, grab it with this direct download link:

KiXtart 2010 4.61 RC1

This update contains the following fixes & enhancements:

• Fixed issue with handling of EXIT codes

• Fixed issue with COPYing files to a directory (without specifying a backslash)

• Fixed issue with writing large DWORD values to the registry

• Updated @PRODUCTTYPE to correctly report Server 2008(R2) & Windows 7

• Added REPLACE function

• Fixed @LOGONMODE (yes, finally!)

• Fixed BREAK “0”

Check out KIX2010.TXT for more detail on the enhancements.

The latest and greatest versions of KiXtart (2.33/3.63/4.60) can be found on: http://kixtart.org

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When running System Center Operations Manager 2007 you may notice the following event:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: OpsMgr Config Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 29106
Date:
Time:
User:
Computer:
Description:
The request to synchronize state for OpsMgr Health Service identified by
"5209bd53-3cf6-dd12-af0d-7f872b995f76" failed due to the following exception
"System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Failed to connect to an IPC Port:
Access is denied.

The Operations Manager Support Team Blog : OpsMgr 2007: Event ID: 29106 "Failed to connect to an IPC Port: Access is denied"

Description of Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2