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Saugata Datta

I’m an IT/DevOps professional with many years of hands-on experience across Windows, Linux, Automation, Backup and Cloud. I love building real-world automations to make infrastructure reliable, secure, and self-healing. Through this blog, I share practical learnings from enterprise projects and my home-lab experiments on Cloudflare, Self-Hosting and everything in between. Always tinkering, always improving.

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Scripts and Coding

How to stop extracting/viewing users details from AD

There are several tools/script available for extracting all user information from AD. Any domain users can access this information by default. For an example, using following attached .vbs script, we can dump entire AD users base to a excel file with following fields. SamAccountName CN FirstName LastName Initials Descrip Office Telephone Email WebPage Addr1 City State ZipCode Title Department Company Manager Profile LoginScript HomeDirectory HomeDrive Adspath LastLogin Primary SMTP I…

Saugata DattaNov 19, 20111 min read7K

Microsoft

WINDOWS 2008 R2 FAILOVER CLUSTER on VMWARE

For windows 2003 cluster, check my old tutorial on following link. https://technochat.in/2008/11/configure-cluster-on-vmware-using-iscsi/ Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Requirements: 1. Two Systems with Same Hardware Configuration. 2. Two Network Card 3. Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition on both systems with same patch level. 4. Active Directory 5. Shared Storage( SAN or iSCSI) 6. Both servers should be the member of same domain. 7. We need a normal domain user id which will…

Saugata DattaNov 19, 20113 min read11.7K

Microsoft

Domain Tools v1.2 Final – For Delegating Users ID related Calls – Update

Previous Version: https://technochat.in/2010/08/domain-tools-v1-0-for-delegating-users-id-related-calls/ Main Window Configuration Window Features: Easy Delegation of ID related calls. No need to share Users ID and password. No need to delegate jobs in AD Level. Configuration user ID & Password will be stored in Config.ini file as encrypted format, so end user will not able to know which user id is using for doing id and password relate task Ability to detect Admin users and…

Saugata DattaJul 5, 20111 min read6.5K

Tutorials

Three DropBox client for Symbian^3 (N8, C7, C6-01, E7, X7)

Currently Symbian^3 having three different native DorpBox client, and all of them written in QT. So, you have to install QT runtime on your device before installing DorpBox client. And good news is, all of them using Nokia Smart Installer, so, before installing DorpBox client, it will check the required runtime environment, and if QT not installed on your device, It will automatically download and install it for you. So,…

Saugata DattaMay 20, 20111 min read14K

Microsoft

How to configure Home Folder with extra security

If you are having a domain controller, and decided to give a personal drive for all users, then home folder configuration is the best way to do it. But if you want to make it secure for every users, then you have to configure something extra with ntfs security and share security. Our current requirement as follows: Deploy home folder for 500+ users Make it secure, so that one user…

Saugata DattaMar 23, 20113 min read16.4K

Data Breach

HOW to HACK into Broadband ADSL Modem (Router) and get the BroadBand User ID and Password!!

NOTE: Purpose of this article is to help people to protect their own ADSL Router, and how to made them more secure, to avoid such indecent in future. First connect to your broadband, and goto http://whatismyip.com to know your public IP Address. Now you need Port Scanner software, here I used a free one from RadMIN. Open Port Scanner after install and type your IP Range like following figure and…

Saugata DattaNov 5, 20102 min read244.7K

Microsoft

Domain Tools v1.0 – For Delegating Users ID related Calls

As being a Windows Administrator, I found that almost every day we spend ¼ of our working time for resetting password and unlocking user ids. I decided to delegate this job to someone else (Yes, I know that it can be done via OU Delegation, but in some complex environment, it's not a good idea), hence I start coding a tiny tool which will do the job for you. This…

Saugata DattaAug 27, 20101 min read7.9K

Microsoft

Using JAF on Windows 7 – Tutorial

Following things you need... Nokia PC Suite 7.1. **Don't use OVI Suite. http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/global/phones/software/Nokia_PC_Suite_eng_web.exe JAF v1.98.6 PKEY Emulator v5 Following steps you have to follow… Install Nokia PC Suite 7.1 & Connect your Phone to finish installing all drivers and restart your system Install JAF v1.98.62 after restart (But don't install Nokia Cable Driver comes with JAF Installer). Now close Nokia PC Suite from Task Manager before you connect your phone…

Saugata DattaMay 24, 20101 min read73.1K

Microsoft

Sync TIME in Solaris 10 Server with Local Windows(Active Directory) NTP Server

There are certain steps to configure NTP on Solaris, and it's really easy and simple. Just follow the following steps For Starting NTP on Solaris: Logon to the server using root. Now go to /etc/inet/ Rename ntp.client to ntp.conf Now edit ntp.conf and replace multicastclient 224.0.1.1 with server ip-of-your-winntp-server # ident "@(#)ntp.client 1.3 00/07/17 SMI" # # /etc/inet/ntp.client # # An example file that could be copied over to /etc/inet/ntp.conf;…

Saugata DattaMay 5, 20101 min read10.1K

Linux

Install UnRAR on Solaris 10 (Sparc)

Download UnRAR from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm Extract .gz file on your system. Transfer unrar file to Solaris 10 server via FTP/SFTP, Destination path will be "/usr/bin" [ad#av_post] Change Permission of the unrar file to 555 Installation complete, now you can use UnRAR on Solaris. [ad#av_post]

Saugata DattaDec 11, 20091 min read10.5K

Scripts and Coding

BAT/CMD Script Log Generator

BAT/CMD scripts are very much helpful to do a monotonous job automatically and sometimes the outputs of the batch script file are very much required. We can generate log file from batch file, but we can't get the 100% log within batch file, so I was looking for a tool which generate log files from a batch script. After a few search, finally I found a tiny utility called wtee.exe…

Saugata DattaNov 10, 20093 min read13.1K

Server and Virtualisation

WinRAR v3.90 MSI Deployment

NOTE: We didn't modify any internal files, just created an installation with demo version. We just changed few default registry settings as per our requirement. Again as per requirement, we have to deploy WinRAR on almost 1200+ system. So we decided to build a MSI for WinRAR deployment, will be painless and easy to deploy over all system with single shot. For this we used WinRAR v3.90 from RAR Labs.…

Saugata DattaSep 2, 20091 min read39.5K

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