Command Line to Retrieve Serial Number from Bios

Command Line to Retrieve Serial Number from Bios

There is an easy way to retrieve the serial number from BIOS without having to reboot and go into the BIOS.  The WMIC command line will retrieve the serial number for you with no elevated rights required. Open a command prompt and run: wmic bios get serialnumber...

Shortcut to Windows Startup Folder

There are two startup folders in windows, which are fairly deep in the folder tree. The shortcut to get to them is shell:startup or shell:common startup You can execute this in the run menu, or from the Start Menu on Windows 8.x and Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2....
LDAP Query to Find an OU by Contains

LDAP Query to Find an OU by Contains

Active Directory does not provide “contains” as an option for searching.  If you want to find an OU by its partial name, you can do an advanced search.  For example, if you want to find every OU that contains the letters “grp,” you and find it...

Safari on iPad will not authenticate on IIS with iOS7

There is a bug in iOS 7 and 7.02 that prevents authentication to IIS servers.  If you attempt to browse to a website that requires authentication, it will prompt for authentication, but never bring up the page.  You may see the correct URL in the address bar, but the...