From the category archives:
I have an Active Directory Domain that has lots of user accounts, under many organizational units. I wanted to find an easy way to see all of the user accounts within the domain. My friend Matt told me about this free tool called DumpSec from SystemTools.com When you first launch the app it defaults to […]
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Last weekend I fixed up an old machine of mine. I was about to give it to the local Salvation Army. They will take your old computers, clean em up, and then sell them at one of their outlet stores. They then take the money and put it to good use. Before I brought it […]
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I have been avoiding it for a long time. I know batch files, and VB script so well that I am not in the mood to learn a totally different scripting language. As each day passes Microsoft is slowly phasing out their support for VB Script. Eventually Power Shell will be the only way to […]
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I got a question from Jonathan: Hi! I have a feature request (For Network Administrator). Is it possible to add classic search when windows desktop search is installed by default? I prefer classic search, as do my users, though the desktop search is more useful for email, the majority of my users search for files […]
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Last week I wrote how to FTP the contents of a folder by just using a batch file. We had a few good suggestions on how to improve that script. Listening to those suggestions, I have come up with this updated version: @echo off rem =============================== rem = FTP Script Made by = rem = […]
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I have a group of log files that I need to upload every day to an archival server. For a long time I have been doing this by hand. I wanted a way to do this without using any extra software – just the default tools available in windows. I found a clean solution that […]
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I got a question this week from a reader: Steve, we have a locked down environment and I have just about everything set the way I want it, but I still need to find a way of keeping users from deleting their Internet Explorer history. Sometimes we need to do a review of their computer […]
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Last week I wrote about a free tool from Microsoft for synchronizing files. I asked you if you had any tools that made your life easier – my inbox was filled with suggestions. One of the free tools that really caught my eye was Microsoft Network Monitor. I have been using Ethereal for a long […]
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I had lunch last week with my good friend Brett. We were talking about synchronizing, and backing up files. I went on a long rant about how much I liked robocopy. After I finished talking about robocopy, he told me about SyncToy from Microsoft. SyncToy? I had never heard of it. The one drawback with […]
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I have been playing with Windows 7 again. While reading through a few Windows 7 blogs, I came across an article that described how to change the Logon background in Windows 7. If you have not had a chance to see Windows 7, this is what the default logon background looks like: Very similar to […]
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