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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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Configure Cluster on VMWare Workstation / Virtual PC using iSCSI

Configure Cluster on VMWare Workstation / Virtual PC using iSCSI

Requirments : iSCSI Target iSCSI Initiator VMWare Workstation / Virtual PC iSCSI Target : For iSCSI Target I used StarWind and install it on my Host PC. There are another tools available for the same, you may use that also, ie iSCSI Cake. iSCSI Initiator : There are two fine iSCSI Initiator available, I used both of them to connect iSCSI Device on Guest OS StarPort from StartWind Microsoft iSCSI…

Saugata Datta3 min read37.5K
Help user to know their IP Address – VIA Web Hosting (Plain and Simple).

Help user to know their IP Address – VIA Web Hosting (Plain and Simple).

How it looks like? Requirement: Web Server    : IIS 6 / Apache. Other : PHP 5 Installed on Web server. PHP Download Link: http://in.php.net/downloads.php Deployment Steps: >Install IIS on server. >Download PHP installer from above location. >Install PHP Installation steps Run php-5.2.6-win32-installer.msi and click Next. Accept Terms and click Next again. Click Next again Now select IIS CGI and click Next. On next screen just click Next button. Now click Install.…

Saugata Datta2 min read6K
Free Mail Service for your own Domain from Microsoft

Free Mail Service for your own Domain from Microsoft

Microsoft now offering mail service for any of your domain for free using Windows Live Admin Center Details: You can use Windows Live Admin Center to create personalized e-mail addresses for your domain name for free, so you don’t have to pay anything for this. Really cool service from Microsoft. With Windows Live Admin Center, you can: Use your own custom domain name to send and receive e-mails and instant messages. Receive…

Saugata Datta3 min read9.1K
Use Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for Live Mail Access from Outlook 2003 or 2007

Use Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for Live Mail Access from Outlook 2003 or 2007

With Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 or Outlook® 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Mail or Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts. Download Now A new beta 2 of the Outlook Connector offering free calendar synchronization Download Beta How to Configure: First download from above location, then install it. Now Open Outlook 2007, on the configure screen, tick…

Saugata Datta1 min read15K
Disable Print Screen Function Via VBS Script (By using GPO Startup/Shutdown Script)

Disable Print Screen Function Via VBS Script (By using GPO Startup/Shutdown Script)

Another requirement, now customer need to disable default windows Print Screen function on all of their user desktop, So, we started our searching again, and easily we able to find out how to disable print screen on windows by importing following registry. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,37,e0,00,00,54,00, 00,00,00,00 So, again we start working to create a custom adm file. As because this is a HKLM key, so we need Privilege to…

Saugata Datta2 min read63K
Custom Group Policy(GPO) for Changing Desktop Background Colour

Custom Group Policy(GPO) for Changing Desktop Background Colour

As per requirement, we need to change all client windows (XP, and 2003) desktop BG color, but it's impossible to change BG colour manually over 1000 desktop. So, we have to do it with an automatic process. First we have to find out what happened on registry, while we changing Desktop BG color, and to do so, we need a tools which take a Windows Registry Snap after and before…

Saugata Datta2 min read33.5K
Tiny USB Pendrive/HDD Blocker UBlock v0.3

Tiny USB Pendrive/HDD Blocker UBlock v0.3

Disable USB Pendrive/HDD in ur Computer for security, it's more effective if you have cybercafe, u can easily able to block USB access, and prevent file copy, and protect your computer from virus. Actually one of my friend have a cybercafe, he request me to make something which can disable USB Pen drive access from all of his client PC, so, i did make this.. Hope this might helpful to…

Saugata Datta1 min read6.4K
OS Dependent Logoff/Logon Script run via GPO

OS Dependent Logoff/Logon Script run via GPO

Use following VBS script Startup or Shutdown script. Option Explicit Dim objItem, colItems, objWMIService, strComputer, objShell strComputer = "." Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\" & strComputer & "rootcimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem",,48) For Each objItem in colItems If InStr(objItem.Caption,"2000") Then 'Add your line here for 2000 objShell.Run "regedit", 1, True End If If InStr(LCase(objItem.Caption),Lcase("XP")) Then 'Add your command line here for 2000 objShell.Run "calc",…

Saugata Datta1 min read7.1K
Hello world!

Hello world!

Welcome to Technochat.in, a place for all of us... Have fun.. :)

Saugata Datta1 min read5.4K
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