I have a Windows box I would like to manage remotely. When I logged in this morning, the Start menu shows a ! next to the Shutdown button, notifying me there are updates to install. But the only option it gives me to install the updates is to then shutdown. Is there not a way to tell it to "install updates and restart" ?
I would like to execute the SC command against a network target as a different user. I need to be able to specify username and password on the commandline as well, as this is for scripting purposes. However, I see no options on SC for executing a command as another user. I see the 'obj' option which accepts a username, but that appears to be for setting the user account under which the service itself should run under.
If there is no way to change the user-context of the execution, is there another command that will allow me to create/start/stop a windows service in a scriptable manner (calling from TeamCity)
If I understand correctly, a VPN connection will make the whole computer behave like it is on the target network. Is it correct to say that a SOCKS proxy via an SSH tunnel would accomplish the same thing as VPN, except only on an application specific context (the application with the SOCKS proxy enabled)
Specifically I am working with IIS7, in case there are platform specific reasons, but I am curious in general.
I know gzip compression is more CPU intensive for both the server and the client, but it seems like the trade off for lower bandwidth would be overall a positive change since so much web content is highly compressable (thinking of HTML, CSS, and JS).