BB Archive for Wisdom

This is where you will find all the interesting and spooky building blocks for Wisdom which people around here have created and shared.  If you have something to share, please post it in the forums. A word of warning though. As it is common knowledge, quality of engineering vary. Inherently so will quality of buildingblocks. By downloading you promise to:

In  other words, for those few legal sticklers out there, RES User Group nor RESguru.com will assume any liability what so ever. That was the serious bit, now on to the fun stuff. Below you’ll find all the Wisdom buildingblocks available on this site. Click on the RAR icons below to download the files. Newest downloads are at the top.

RAR icons below to download the files. Newest downloads are at the top.

Set Citrix ICA idle time

(Added Jan 16th 2010) This BB was shared by Niels over at the RESug Forum. Niels writes: “Did you ever have the need to change the idle time on your Citrix sessions, so a certain user could run a job, which takes more time then the “default” time out session time? Every month end we had to change the session time-out, we used to do this manually by changing the GPO settings. But now we have created two Wisdom jobs for this task, one to set the time out to 16 hours and one to set it back to 8 hours.

Setup Full Memory Dump on all Windows OS types

(Added Jan 16th 2010) This BB was shared by DepthStrike over at the RESug Forum. The purpose of this is to roll out the registry keys for setting a full memorydump if a BSOD occurs. The module utilizes conditions so that it sets the right keys for the found OS.  It works universally for W2000, WinXP, Vista, Win7, Win2003, Win2008.  It is usefull if you need to set this on a large amount of machines That’s why I’ve made this module “universal” for Windows Operating Systems. Thanks for sharing!

Remove First-time Setup stuff

(Added Jan 4th 2010) This module will help you remove the StubPath entries in the HKLM which new users get hit by when they log in to a machine for the first time. Application specific settings can be applied nicely through PowerFuse anyway, so getting rid of this can help save you login time. See this article for further info

AD User/Group creation

(Added June 14th 2009) Over in the RESug forum, Eddie posted this buildingblock for Wisdom, which will help you create groups in AD using RES Wisdom. Be sure to read the full posting here. Also, remember to configure a AD connector in Wisdom before you can use this functionality.

Employee Provisioning

(Added May 14th 2009) This buildingblock contains an example Wisdom Run Book for creation of users, exchange mailboxes and home directories. When scheduled the runbook will either accept manual input of employee data or obtain it through a CSV file.

PowerTrace Purifier

(Added March 26th 2009) The purpose of this module is to help you get rid of specific unwanted records in PowerTrace and Webtrace logs. When running the module against the SQL server where you have your PowerFuse datastore, it will ask you for a searchstring. If you enter, say “somesite.com”, all records of visits to this site will be removed permanently.

PowerFuse Tracing/Debugging Configuration

This module will configure the Trace feature (debugging) on the PowerFuse enabled target machine(s). You can chose via module parameters where the log file should be placed, if you want verbose loggging. This module will in addition bounce the service and grab a copy of the current logfile.

PowerTrace Cleanup modules

This is a collection of 4 Wisdom modules which all are related to cleaning up the PowerTrace tables. There are modules for: Check data base size, Refresh PowerFuse sessions, Drop the PowerTrace tables, and finally a module to Shrink a database. It is heavily recommended that you, read through the article here.

Super Security Audit (21MB).

With this module you will quickly get an overview of any outstanding security issues, related to missing updates, vunerabilities etc. This module does WGA checking and MBSA analysis on both 32 and 64 bit machines. Read more about the module in this posting.

Add a computer to the domain

(Added  Feb 20th 2009) This module simply enters a computer into a domain, but also modifies the DefaultDomain registry key, so the user logging on afterwards does not have to change the domain dropdown. The module should need no editing at all. Read more about it here.

Configure Mandatory Profile Path

(Added  Feb 13th 2009) This buildingblock will help you configure an environment variable which will point to the correct local path of a mandatory profile for the users. See this posting about the buildingblock before downloading it.

NTFRS Repair

(Added  Feb 13th 2009) This BuildingBlock will help you fix problems with NTFRS (NT File Replication Service), by allowing you automatically to perform a [non]authoriative restore on this subsystem according to MS KB Article 290762

PowerFuse Log Groomer

(Added  Feb 1st 2009) This BuildingBlock will allow you to delete specific logs in the PowerFuse database. Warning! Buildingblock messes with your PowerFuse datastore. Do NOT use in production environment. For demonstration purposes only. Read the associated technote here before you download.

Best Practices for Servers and Workstations

(Added  Jan 15th 2009) This file contains two buildingblocks which contains some nice registry fixes picked up along the way, which can make things somewhat easier for you.  The Reghacks in these buildingblocks is just collections of relevant stuff that’s been googled over time. Slice and dice the modules as you like. See the included PDF for details.