Category: Development

WSUS_Get_Status by Shaun Vermaak is an utility to get the UpdatesNeedingFilesCount value from a remote WSUS server…
Remember to have “Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.dll” in path

Added last sync status

Usage: WSUS_Get_Status.exe SERVERNAME USESECURECONNECTION PORT

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CommandThreader by Shaun Vermaak is a command line tool that makes it possible to execute any list of commands threaded into as many threads as needed.

03/05/2009 – Fixed thread IDs
24/11/2008 – Added line numbers
03/11/2008 – Minor bug fixes

Usage: CommandThreader.exe NUMBER_OF_THREADS INPUT_FILE.TXT
Lines in INPUT_FILE.TXT must be in format COMMAND|ARGUMENT|WORKING_DIRECTORY|HIDDEN|TIMEOUT

Example: PSEXEC.exe|\192.168.0.1 -c -d -f Program.exe||True|1000

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GenStr by Shaun Vermaak generates random strings for passwords and pre-share keywords

Usage: GenStr.exe Aag1! LENGTH COUNT
A = Generate string with only A,B,C,D,E,F (UPPERCASE affects whole string)
a = Generate string with only a,b,c,d,e,f (lowercase affects whole string)
g/G = Include alphabetical in generated string
1 = Include numerics in generated string
Exclamation = Include special characters
LENGTH = Length of generated string
COUNT = Number of strings to generate

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WSUS_Get_Status by Shaun Vermaak is an utility to get the UpdatesNeedingFilesCount value from a remote WSUS server…
Remember to have “Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.dll” in path

Usage: WSUS_Get_Status.exe SERVERNAME USESECURECONNECTION PORT

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CircularLogArchiver by Shaun Vermaak automates the archiving of logs with the help of 7Zip.
It’s particularly useful on large log directories were space is an issue.

Usage: CircularLogArchiver.exe GO /LP:LogPath /LE:LogExtention /AI:Interval /AOT:ArchiveOlderThan /DAOT:DontArchiveOlderThan /DOT:DeleteOlderThan
Example: CircularLogArchiver.exe GO /LP:”C:Logs” /LE:”*.log” /AI:”M” /AOT:”1″ /DAOT:”3″ /DOT:”3″
Example above will archive all files in “C:Logs” with *.log extention that are between one and three months old and delete files older than three months

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Pingable by Shaun Vermaak is my implementation of IFPING. It’s a Windows based commandline utility that checks if a specified host is reachable and then returns the ERRORLEVEL value back to the CMD

Usage: Pingable.exe HOSTNAMEORIPADDRESS TIMEOUT PASSCOUNT

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WSUS_Cancel_Unapproved_Downloads by Shaun Vermaak cancels all unapproved downloads on WSUS server…
Remember to have “Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.dll” in path

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Tiler by Shaun Vermaak tile windows on specified intervals

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CopyDHCPClients by Shaun Vermaak copies Microsoft DHCP reservations from one server/scope to another server/scope.

Usage: CopyDHCPClients.exe SOURCESERVER SOURCESCOPE TARGETSERVER TARGETSCOPE

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WSUS_Cleanup by Shaun Vermaak can performs a WSUS Server Cleanup from the command line…
Remember to have “Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.dll” in path

CleanupObsoleteComputers = COC
CleanupObsoleteUpdates = COU
CleanupUnneededContentFiles = CUCF
CompressUpdates = CU
DeclineExpiredUpdates = DEU
DeclineSupersededUpdates = DSU

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