Web based out of office updated

April 30th, 2008 | No Comments

My Web based out of office manager application has now been updated with Exchange 2007 support. The WebDav interface has been de-emphasized in Exchange 2007 so the new version will make use of EWS if you’re lucky enough to be using Exchange 2007. You can find the new version here.

 

Remotely check Windows firewall status

April 30th, 2008 | No Comments

As part of my routine auditing process I wanted to check to ensure that the Windows firewall is enabled and set to use its domain profile on all of our Member servers.

Here’s a script to do just that

' Configuration.
' ====================================================================
Dim strFirewallStatus, strComputer, arrComputers
arrComputers = Split("london,brisbane,perth,chicago", ",")

WScript.Echo "-------------------------------------------------------"
WScript.Echo Left("Computer Name" & Space(47),47) & "Status"
WScript.Echo "-------------------------------------------------------"

' Iterate through computers, showing status.
' ====================================================================
For Each strComputer in arrComputers

  ' Required so we don't die on permission errors.
  On Error Resume Next

  Set objReg = GetObject( "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel" &_
  "=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")

  If err.number = 0 Then
    objReg.GetDWORDValue &H80000002, "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\" &_
    "Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\" &_
    "DomainProfile\", "EnableFirewall",dwValue

    If dwValue <> 0 Then
      strFirewallStatus = “Enabled”
    Else
      strFirewallStatus = “Disabled”
    End If

    WScript.Echo Left(strComputer & Space(47),47) & strFirewallStatus

  Else
    WScript.Echo strComputer & ” - Error” & err.number & ” : ” &_
    err.description
    err.clear
  End if
Next

You’ll need to make sure that you’ve got the relevant permissions on the target computers, otherwise you’ll just get errors.

 

Microsoft break support.microsoft.com for Squid users

April 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments

It seems that Microsoft have managed to break their support site for anyone behind a Squid proxy server. Danny has posted a fix for this on his website, though for newer version of squid a slightly different approach is required.

##
# Fix support.microsoft.com
##
acl fixSupportMicrosoft dstdomain support.microsoft.com
reply_header_access Accept-Encoding deny fixSupportMicrosoft
request_header_access Accept-Encoding deny fixSupportMicrosoft

What you’re doing there is preventing the Microsoft support site from gzip’ing their content.

 
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