Old version of .Net 4.8

Old version of .Net 4.8.  Might be useful getting it installed on Windows 7?

How Cliff Stoll's Amazon sales were hijacked

Really interesting (and short) read.  Cliff Stoll sold Klein bottles on Amazon until a Chinese outfit managed to use Amazon's own rules to take over his storefront, leaving Cliff with no recourse.  Interesting and spooky.

https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING

Get access to Redirected Folders

Ref: https://blogs.msmvps.com/bradley/2010/02/28/getting-access-to-the-my-documents-redirected-folders/

This post is a copy of the article referenced above.  Just read that if the link is still good.  Otherwise I include it here because it is so useful, and things disappear on the web.

Download pstools (part of the sysinternals package).

I suggest you create c:\sysinternals, unzip it there, and add that to your path.

Copy the below to a script named ChangePermissions.ps1.  

Change the two highlighted lines to suit your environment.

#ChangePermissions.ps1
# CACLS rights are usually
# F = FullControl
# C = Change
# R = Readonly
# W = Write

$StartingDir= "E:\Users\shares"

$Principal="INSERT_DOMAIN_NAME\ADMIN_USERNAME"

$Permission="F"

$Verify=Read-Host `n "You are about to change permissions on all" `
"files starting at"$StartingDir.ToUpper() `n "for security"`
"principal"$Principal.ToUpper() `
"with new right of"$Permission.ToUpper()"."`n `
"Do you want to continue? [Y,N]"

if ($Verify -eq "Y") {

foreach ($file in $(Get-ChildItem $StartingDir -recurse)) {
#display filename and old permissions
write-Host -foregroundcolor Yellow $file.FullName
#uncomment if you want to see old permissions
#CACLS $file.FullName

#ADD new permission with CACLS
CACLS $file.FullName /E /P "${Principal}:${Permission}" >$NULL

#display new permissions
Write-Host -foregroundcolor Green "New Permissions"
CACLS $file.FullName
}
}

 Run the script from an elevated cmd prompt with this command:

    psexec -s -i powershell -noexit "& 'C:\Path\To\ChangePermissions.ps1'"

It will recursively grant you access to everything in that path.

Powershell and Visual Basic logon scripts to map drives

On Error Resume Next 
' Ref: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1945685-gpo-drive-mapping-not-mapped-on-login-but-mapped-on-gpupdate

Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
strUserDN = objSysInfo.UserName
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUserDN)
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Map network share by group
arrGroups = objUser.GetEx("memberOf")
   For Each strGroup in arrGroups
        Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://" & strGroup)
        strGroupName = objGroup.CN

        Select Case strGroupName
 
        Case "N_share"
            objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "Z:", "\\server\Network_share"

        'Case "Teachers"
            'objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "K:", "\\fileserver\teachers$"

        End Select
Next



'Label the Network drives
Set WshNet = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
 Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
 
Set nDrives = WshNet.EnumNetworkDrives
 
For i = 0 To nDrives.Count - 1 step 2
 path = nDrives.Item(i+1)
 drive = ndrives.Item(i)
 if drive <> "" then
 folders = Split(path,"\")
 foldername = folders(ubound(folders))
 oShell.NameSpace(drive & "\").Self.Name = foldername
 end if
 next
 
Set WshNet = Nothing
 Set oDrives = Nothing
 Set oShell = Nothing

Enable RDP, Ping, File sharing, remote registry and allow it through firewall from cmd line

REM
REM ENABLE RDP
REM
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote desktop" new enable=yes

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-TCP" /v UserAuthentication /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f  

REM
REM SET REMOTEREGISTRY SERVICE TO AUTO START AND START IT
REM
sc config remoteregistry start=auto
wmic service where "name = 'remoteregistry'" call startservice

REM install Telnet client
dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient

REM install WMIC (not installed by default on Windows 11)

DISM /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:WMIC

REM

REM set local passwords to not expire.

REM wmic useraccount where name="sysadmin" set passwordexpires=false

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited 

REM
REM ENABLE FIREWALL
REM
netsh Advfirewall set allprofiles state on

REM
REM ENABLE FILE SHARING
REM
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=Yes
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Network Discovery" new enable=Yes

REM
REM ENABLE ICMP PING REPLY
REM
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow

REM Disable 'Fast Boot'
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /v HiberbootEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Install any program or even a script to run as a service

There are a few ways to create your own service processes in Windows.  NSSM does it the best.

Henry's Post Tester

Henry's Post Tester is a service for developers testing clients that POST and GET things over HTTP. 

http://ptsv2.com/