Windows 7 brought lot of features for users and easy options for administrators. If you ever want to copy a file/folder patch in windows 7, just hold SHIFT button and right click on that file/folder. It will give an option called “Copy as Path”, select that and it takes the file path into windows clip board and paste it where ever you want. It pretty pretty easy than conventional method of copying from address bar(or from file/folder properties)

Do you know a tip/trik in Windows 7 and want to share that? Put it here it in comments with a link to your blog.

I have seen system administrators who feels bending the CPU box or rebooting the system are only ways to find out serial number of a machine. In situations where a remote systems serial is required, they do nothing but reaching that machine physically.

Enough doing hard work and be smart, guys; here is a small powershell code which helps you to get serial number of local or remote machine without moving your feet.

PS C:> (Get-WmiObject -computer COMP-A -cl win32_BIOS).SerialNumber
ABCDEFG

Replace COMP-A with the computer name you want to query and needless to say that you need admin rights to execute this command.

Post in comments section here if you have any questions.

Happy Learning,
Sitaram Pamarthi

Back in the late 1990s, some large Internet association conducted a survey in order to bestow awards in categories like Best Web server and Best Web browser, and one of the categories was Best Web authoring tool.

We didn’t find out about this until the organization contacted the Windows team and said, “Hi, we would like to present Microsoft with the award for Best Web authoring tool. Please let us know who the author of Notepad is, so that we can invite them to the award ceremony.”

Yup, Notepad won the award for Best Web authoring tool.

The mail went out to the team. “Hey, does anybody remember who wrote Notepad?”

Even a decade ago, the original authorship of Notepad was lost to the mists of time. I think the person who ended up going was the original author of the multi-line edit control, since that’s where the guts of Notepad lie.

[souce : msdn blogs]

Today, while playing with PowerShell, I came across a interesting COM object “SAPI.SpVoice”. Using this object you can convert given text stream to voice.

Sample script:

[PS] C:>(new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice).speak(“Sitaram Pamarthi”)

Usage:

Copy this sample script into powershell window and switch ON your speakers/head phones. You can listen to the voice conversion of text you entered. You can explore more options of this by going through it’s properties and methods, (new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice) | get-member.

Happy Learning…,
Sitaram Pamarthi

The first Exchange 2010 ebook I have seen.! I had glimpse at the book and it has topics a general Exchange admin look for and a good stage to start the journey with Exchange 2010.

This was written by a member (Jaap Wesselius) in http://draft.blogger.com/www.sysadmin-network.com and published through redgate.

Here is the TOC if you want to take a look and download the complete book from reg-gate site

Happy Learning…,
Sitaram Pamarthi