FileHash v5.0 has just been released, and it comes with a focus on making it easier to automate the following two things: Obtain the checksums of a set of files in a directory (and subdirectory), and then use that checksum list to compare the same directory structure...
This past month, I put together a new utility, SyslogTally, because I needed to easily and quickly answer a question pertaining to how frequently various scripts were being used in my environment. Original Need This question about script usage frequency first arose...
Once upon a time, I needed to get a quick and dirty file integrity checking process in place for Windows systems so that we could meet a customer compliance requirement that was growing more and more popular. FIM – File Integrity Monitoring At the time, we were...
Of all the console utilities that I have written to support my systems automation endeavors, my first, favorite, and most extensively used utility is: DATEINFO.EXE. Over the years (decades), I have developed many Windows Shell scripts which needed to be able track...
It has been said that technology in general, and automation in particular, simply make it easier for humans to propagate errors much faster than they could otherwise do so. This morning, I awoke to find that none of my scripts – on any of my machines – had...
