Cisco switches/routers : automate configuration backup

Hi mates,
a customer asked me how to automate the configuration backup for the internal switches. There are some 2950, 3750 , 3560 and so on.
Unfortunately there are a lot of non-free solutions but searching a little bit deeper I discovered that Cisco provides at least two different ways to do this.
So first of all you have to identify the server that will host the backup files.
Second identify which protocol you want to use to send, over the network, the backup to the selected server.
In my situation I've choose TFTP. There's a free TFTP server solution from Solarwind that is simple and works.
I've explained, briefly, two different solution : Kron and Archive.

With Kron you schedule an action to be done periodically. Kron does accept only EXEC CLI commands and, practically speaking, you will configure two different processes : a policy (that includes commands) and the scheduling (specifying the interval).

Powershell --> Powerquick : get (some) important remote pc info

Hi mates,
here again with a quick Powershell script that could help you during the day by day routine.
Some info to retrieve from a remote pc that could be useful for a massive software installation, to group specific computer with specific software installed, to......it's up to your fantasy.
Obviously you can find thousand of this kind of script on the internet but I feel the need to share, share and share......
Improve it without any limit.....

Powershell --> Powerquick : change Active Directory attributes for a specific group of users

Hi mates,
quick and dirty tips : change Active Directory user account attributes......I needed to do it for and old Exchange 2003 environment.
Only to give you a fast and reliable solution.....nothing more.
Here you are :

Powershell : manipulate Excel files

Hi mates,
I needed to manipulate some Excel files and merge some data with my customer's Active Directory.
The main goals were to :
1. be sure that the files were consistent
2. correct eventual anomalies
3. merge part of its contents with some specific fields of the Active Directory
Theoretically this is something that is usually made in accordance with the HR dept. In particular when they use a system the is totally different or separated from our main directory.
The fact is that for several purposes some fields needs to be populated : for example to assign budget or to split some costs between different sub-companies.

Powershell : share and ACL on servers.......

Hi mates,
I needed to perform some information retrieving for an internal auditing.
I took a chance to review share and permission on all of our servers.
Here below a quick and easy script that exports everything on two separate files easy to import in Excel

Powershell : find and move disabled computer account.....Active Directory cleaning

Hi mates,
I needed to perform some active directory cleaning.
The most important consideration about this activity is that most of the modern software are continuously in touch with AD, querying it, retrieving data and so on.

To have a partial clean situation we putted in production another script that disables the computer accounts that do not logon to the domain from 90 days.
Having a lot of disabled computers we would like to optimize also the vertical software that rely in AD.

Powershell modify active directory user account data

Hi mates,
a customer asked me to do a quick operation on his Active Directory.
Practically the needs were :

1. add into a specific group a list of users retrieved from a TXT file
2. retrieve active directory users members from this group
3. for each user modify the description field for future usage maintaning the old value in case it exists