Windows Tip: Lookup Remote MAC Addresses

If you ever find yourself needing to lookup the MAC address on a remote Windows computer (maybe your configuring a Cisco IP softphone), try getmac.

In the Windows command prompt type:

getmac /s computername

Replace computername with the name of the PC on your domain.

Below is the output you will receive:

Physical Address    Transport Name

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00-21-9B-2F-E8-6F   \Device\Tcpip_{1527037D-056C-4BB5-91CC-6E93BC0E85C2}

Adam's Edge: Mounting a Windows User Hive in Regedit

Ever need information from a user registry hive but could not successfully boot up the computer?  Here is a quick tip that you may not know about.  You can mount a single users registry hive (commonly seen as HKEY_CURRENT_USER when they're logged in and you launch regedit) outside of that users profile.

A few things you will need before you can mount the hive:

-Access to the NTUSER.dat file in question

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