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I sometimes use this way, too. It works great. In our logon scripts, we write the user name,full name,date, time, etc. to a file called 'machinename' and the log off scripts removes this file. We use grep, findstr, etc to search these files for a user's logon name. psloggedon.exe is also easy to use. -John

I am glad I read this post. Allen2, thanks for the link. I have always wondered about this, but I wish this article went into a little more detail. -John

I just bought 3 copies of PD8 and one copy of PD8 for Exchange. I recently evaluated PD7 and DK. PD did a much better job at defragging drives. Our data use is in the 200 - 300 GB range on each of our servers. Exchange data is much smaller. I am running it on our test server now. -John

How much memory do you have? Have you run a memory tester, like the one from http://www.memtest86.com/ ? I would run this over night to see if any of your chips are bad. I would also run a program that looks at the SMART stats of your hard drive. I don't know of one off the top of my head, goolgle for something like "smart hard drive". -John

For those people who claim that defragging is either overrated or unnecessary, I beg to differ. Look at this picture. This is where our SQL database lives. Our performance sucks. We will be purcashing PD 8 real soon and then I will repost a new picture and about performance gains. http://www.fcs.uga.edu/~john/VolumeD.jpg -John

If you have to specify a proxy (even through a GPO) in the IE settings, then the proxy is not considered transparent. -John

I do not have Vista but was curious if anyone knows if it will support transparent proxing? I don't believe XP nor 2003 support this. Linux, BSD, etc. do support this and I think it is a really neet feature and hope that Vista is capable of this. Does anyone know? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_p...sparent_proxies Thanks, -John

I thought I tried %%R as well and still got 'R's. Maybe I was doing something else wrong, too. Anyway, it is all working now. Thanks for your help. -John

findstr "[0-9]" total.txt > c:\temp\results.txt set /p total=<c:\temp\results.txt @echo %total% -John

ROFL M$ actually wrote a KB on how to ask a question? Good find! Agreed. This is hilarious. -John

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for all of your help. My batch file is running great now. -John

allen2, Thanks, I got it working with this: for /f "usebackq delims=;" %%i in (`mawk -F\t "$7 ~ /agin/ {print NR}" v.tsv`) do mawk -f record.awk -v rec=%%i v.tsv In this context what does delims=; do? I assume it tells the for loop that there are no delimiters? If this is the case, I still don't understand why this makes it work. Can you explain this? Thanks, -John

This command: mawk -F\t "$7 ~ /agin/ {print NR}" v.tsv has this 3 line output: 6 8 24 I want to run these three commands: mawk -f record.awk -v rec=6 v.tsv mawk -f record.awk -v rec=8 v.tsv mawk -f record.awk -v rec=24 v.tsv How do I do this in a for loop? This is what I have tried: for /F "usebackq" %%R in (`mawk -F\t "$7 ~ /agin/ {print NR}" v.tsv`) do mawk -f record.awk -v rec=%R v.tsv to debug, I am using: for /F "usebackq" %%R in (`mawk -F\t "$7 ~ /agin/ {print NR}" v.tsv`) do @echo %R which has the output of: R R R I have also tried this: for %%R in ('mawk -F\t "$7 ~ /agin/ {print NR}" v.tsv') do @echo %R which outputs: R R R R R R I have also tried single-quotes & back quotes to no avail and also fiddled around with the for command, but can not get this working. How can I make a for loop to run this command 3 times with # being replaced with 6, 8, and 24... mawk -f record.awk -v rec=# v.tsv I hope this makes sense, -John

Cool. I, too, have been looking for an app to downsample mp3's. I want to do this so that my portable media players can fit more songs on them. -John

By "movie", I mean any format...mpg, asf, wmv, qt, avi, swf, etc. -John

We are taking a picture every 5 - 10 minutes throughout the work day. So for each day we could have 40 - 50 jpgs. Is there anyway to convert these 50 jpgs into a movie? We would want each jpg to show up for a second or 2 and then move on to the next image. Is there software to do this? I would prefer something that could be automated. Thanks, -John

findstr /b "[0-9].*</TD>" lobby.txt /b start at the beginning of the line. [0-9].* looks for a digit which can be repeated until </TD> is reached -John

You can also use psloggedon.exe from: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html psloggedon.exe \\PcName -John

Ctrl-X, Very nice script! I like the way you do this and will start using your idea from now on. This is what I did before: reg query ... | sed ... > c:\temp\data.txt set /p VERSION=<c:\temp\data.txt del c:\temp\data.txt Also this command: c:\sed.exe -e "s/.*REG_SZ//g" | C:\sed.exe -e "s/^\t//" can be shortened to just: C:\sed.exe -e "s/.*REG_SZ//g" -e "s/^\t//" -John

I replaced 2 old Dell servers (out of warrenty) with 2 VMWare Server guest instances. It works great. Both guests run Win 2003 EE and one of them even runs SQL 2005. -John

Thanks for all of the info! -John

Mr Snrub, nice post! Very informative. Have you ever attempted this? -John

What's the deal with these types of patches. Does Microsoft Product Support Services charge for them? Why don't they just make them available like other patches? -John

Log into the system, click start -> run -> type in: eventvwr.msc This opens up the Event viewer. On the left side click on System. On the right side look for red Error messages with Service Control Manager as the source. -John

How do I migrate FSMO roles? IIRC, there are 5 of them, right? Should they all reside on the same box or should they be spread out across different servers? -John