Monthly Archives: April 2014

Sending OS Alert Message across networked computers

As net send is old and not always supported, msg is a good alternative

msg /SERVER:[PC you want to send a message to] * “[message]”

use of /TIME:[seconds] changes the alert’s lifetime from default 60 seconds

use of /V provides a bit more info, but nothing to write home about, however adding /V /W will let you know the user clicked “OK” with a ” Message to session [] responded to by user”

 

 

Playing WebEx recordings

Not all computers have the proper codec installed to play a WebEx recording.

This was how I stripped their proprietary codec to allow compatible playing.

Required :

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/codec?Portal=www.gotomeeting.com https://citrix.sharefile.com/download.aspx?id=seadcbe4ce7744dab

Pretty straight forward after that, add the file, start and boom.

List Groups An AD User Is In

PowerShell:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
(Get-ADUser userName –Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf

Notepad++:

Three Find and Replace – ,CN=.* ,OU=.* CN= with nothing

It searches for [text] followed by any character (.) any number of times (*), effectively “any sequence of characters”, ending at the line break.