I was wondering if anyone can recommend a software(preferably free) that has a server/client setup where I can push a file change from the server to the clients on the network PC's? Its just one particular file that changes daily and I would like to just push it out to the clients instead of keeping users permissions as administrator to copy it down from a shared drive as its currently setup to do via application startup script.
Add those users to a group, give that group read access to the file, they won't need admin privileges anymore.
As soon as you make a change to the file, they will pick up the changes.
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I want to migrate my multiple sites from one server to another. The source server where all the files are now residing is non WHM/Cpanel based. The target server is WHM/Cpanel based. Previously i used to do transfers using cpanel to cpanel transfers from WHM dashboard but now I am don't know what is the proper way to migrate the files.
Can someone please let me know of any effective way to properly migrate all the files.
If the source server has some panel like DirectAdmin then you may find a script to do so else wise you would need to proceed manual way i.e
create cPanel accounts of all the websites or add as addon domain in a same cPanel account (whatever setup you wish to do).
rsync files into respective home dir of the domain mapped with
dump all the database on the source server and copy on your whm server, further importing in whm database name style. Import one by one.
Make sure you make changes to website config file as per new database name.
I want to be able to push a new group policy out with a powershell script (or scripts most likely) that will make all computers on our active domain update to the windows OS that we want. Currently there are hundreds of users and we don't have a way to update their computers other than doing it via remote desktop for each computer individually. But every computer has the .exe file required to update, just hasn't been run yet. Something like
wuauclt.exe /updatenow
I am also open to other suggestion on how to do this. I was thinking of sending all the users a batch file and having them run that and they could do it themselves. Any help would be appreciated and if this post wasn't specific enough I can answer questions or take it down. Thanks!
Never and I mean NEVER let user deploy updates on his/her computer themselves by clicking on some batch or exe file. Two reasons:
It will just not work and big part of machines will not be updated.
You are teaching users that they can run various and unknown batch files / powershell scripts / exe files, because it's safe.
Since you said "hundreds of users" I believe that you have some domain there.
What you might be looking for are the Group Policies (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-wufb-group-policy) or WSUS (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-manage-updates-wsus).
I need to create a backup of my emails which sometime in the future I can restore by uploading them to a new server. Not synchronize, but create a backup.
Also, at the moment there's only one server which I access via IMAP, meaning, there's no other server I can synchronize my emails with. When I need to restore them from a backup, there'll be also only one server -- a new one. This also implies that I can't use synchronization.
If this goal requires building a custom application and knowledge of IMAP protocol -- that's ok.
How can I do that?
I'm not sure if I am asking this in the right spot or not, sorry if I am wrong.
I would like to know please, SCCM is currently operational in our school, and we use it to install software across our network.
I have a piece of software that requires a different channel for each room or staff laptop that it is installed in.
I have managed to set up a powershell script that polls a csv for the channel that should be assigned to each room, and when the script it run, it pulls that channel and installs the software with that channel assigned.
What I am having trouble with now, is that SCCM installs the software using the local system account, and the csv is located on a network share.
When the System account goes to poll the csv file it gets an access denied error, even though System has full control of the csv and directory that the csv is located in.
Is it just me not understanding the permissions that System has, or can System not interact with other devices over the network, I assumed that being system on both devices, it would be able to cross to another device and impersonate system on that device.
Is there a way around this?
Thanks for any feedback.
The system account uses the machine account when accessing the network e.g. COMPNAME$, if you're on AD you can add a grant to that computer account to the file share ACL. If you don't have a domain you can create a local account with matching username and password on both machines and configure the service to run as that account.
By simply adding Domain Computers to the files permissions list and assigning it Read/Write permissions, I am able to let any computer in this group (all computers on the domain) access the specific files.
This is also what Andy Arismendi was saying, however just an already setup group.
I have a batch file where I copy file from a different server. I have no issues running it on the server. But when I try to run it from a web application, the file does not copy. I keep getting access denied error. I have used xcopy, copy and robocopy.
I have provided full access to source and destination folder for all users.
No luck. Keep getting the same error :
copy /y \N01APW280\d$\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\diagnostics\logs\essbase\essbase_0\app\PLPLAN\PLPLAN.LOG D:\Hyperion\ERPI_Actuals_Load\Logs\
It is rather awkward to try and use a command-line utility, such as copy, from a web app; you should rather be using the programmatic abilities within your web application instead.
Aside from that, you main issue is that web apps are typically executed with very limited privileges, using local machine accounts that have no way of accessing administrative level shares on remote machines such as \N01APW280\d$. Another possible issue is that the local account that is being used by the web app cannot write to D:\Hyperion\ERPI_Actuals_Load\Logs\ folder. And finally, your app may have enough privileges to instantiate an external process such as copy.exe.