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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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Automation

AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

It is always a good idea to reduce hardware dependencies by moving your data to the cloud. Cloud is much more flexible than traditional hardware infrastructure including VMWare. But you still have to consider the ability of recovering data as and when required. This always helps you to keep your business running with minimal interruption. In AWS, there are several possibilities for implementing an effective backup strategy. EBS snapshots are…

Saugata DattaFeb 13, 20143 min read22.8K

Microsoft

First official Windows 8.1 tablet in India lunched by Acer

Acer announced the Iconia W4, successor of the Iconia W3 back in October. Today, the company launched the tablet in India. The Iconia W4 has a 8-inch (800 x 1280 pixels) multi-touch IPS display, powered by a 1.8 GHz quad-core Intel Atom Bay Trail T processor with integrated Intel HD Graphics and runs on the latest Windows 8.1. It comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 and packs…

Saugata DattaDec 25, 20132 min read8.2K

Microsoft

Restrict Creator/Owner from altering NTFS permission

Target: Restrict creator / owner from altering any NTFS permission on newly created files & folders. Scenarios: Regardless of NTFS permissions, the owner, which is by default the person who creates the folder/files, can always alter the permissions. This actually causing a lot's of problem, with this special privilege users can also block inherited permission and alter current permission. This might cause additional pain for administrators. Solution: Initially to test…

Saugata DattaNov 20, 20131 min read17.1K

Microsoft

NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS

Most of us using TAKEOWN or ICACLS for taking ownership from command prompt, and both of them are simple to use. We generally use TAKEOWN or ICACLS with following switches to taking the ownership. takeown /F "PATH" /R /D Y /A icacls "PATH" /T /setowner Administrators But unfortunately, TAKEOWN & ICACLS both might failed on certain scenario, as there are some undocumented limitation. We had incident where we tried to…

Saugata DattaNov 19, 20132 min read49K

Microsoft

SkyDrive Updated with Modern UI

Microsoft has announced a massive update to SkyDrive, bringing the user interface of the Windows 8 app to the website. The new SkyDrive features the new, modern design for desktop and tablet browsers with instant search, contextual toolbar, thumbnail multi-select, drag-and-drop organization, and HTML5 sorting. Pictures are now finally sorted from newest to oldest and users can specify the sort order for any folder. Microsoft also sped up synching…

Saugata DattaAug 14, 20122 min read6.8K

Tutorials

Nokia Lumia 800 can capture good picture in low light

Yes, with Lumia 800 you can capture good picture on low light condition, just check the following picture I took on my weekend trip, which also own the 2nd prize on Mobilicity Nokia Lumia 710 Photo Contest @ WPCentral For details check the following link for details about the competition : http://bit.ly/JytJXe

Saugata DattaMay 29, 20121 min read6.5K

Microsoft

Nokia Lumia 800 Review – Amazing Everyday

I was N8 user for last 1 year, and till now technically its the best phone out there on the market. I was happy with my N8. Amazing Day 1: After announcement of Lumia 800 from Nokia, I decided to take my chance with new Lumia 800, so I pre-ordered my Lumia with 3000/- from Nokia Store, and I was really surprised with their pre-order gift . Amazing Day 2:…

Saugata DattaJan 2, 20125 min read19.5K

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 read7.2K

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 read11.9K

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 read6.7K

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 read14.2K

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 read16.6K

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