Migrated this blog to Amazon LightSail from GoDaddy

Migrated this blog to Amazon LightSail from GoDaddy

Finally, I managed to migrate my blog from GoDaddy to Amazon Lightsail, and everything looks good so far. Thanks to Amazon Lightsail for providing a static public IP (34.198.110.82). It’s really simple to migrate your blogs from any other hosting Amazon Lightsail, details information can be found here. They have very attractive pricing, which is one of the reason I

New Feature : EC2 Instance Console Screenshot for Boot Troubleshooting

New Feature : EC2 Instance Console Screenshot for Boot Troubleshooting

Finally a great feature add to AWS EC2 instances (HVM virtualization only), which was requested by almost everyone. Now we can take a console screenshot of any EC2 Instances. This is now available publicly. Earlier we had to log a case with AWS Support to get the AWS Console screenshot. This is a similar feature like Boot Diagnostics for Azure

Set File System Auditing via PowerShell

Set File System Auditing via PowerShell

For last few days, I was trying to figure out how to set file system auditing via command line. I was looking for this as I had to apply some specific audit policy on multiple file servers. From GUI, we could do this, but it will take hours of manual activity. As requirement, I had to set Success Audit policy

NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS

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

OS Dependent Logoff/Logon Script run via GPO

OS Dependent Logoff/Logon Script run via GPO

Use following VBS script Startup or Shutdown script.

with above script, on Windows 2000 it will execute regedit.exe, on Windows XP it will execute calc.exe, and on Windows 2003 it will execute notepad.exe. You can change the file as you wish..