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I have been getting tired of the Name+Icon login style of Vista for some time now. I want to force users to press CTRL-ALT-DEL, then type their username and password. There are a few reasons for this. I have account names that I don’t want others to see. If they know that the username exists, […]
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Microsoft has included file compression with windows since Windows 2000. I am not talking about the built-in zip compression either (That actually started with XP). What I am talking about is the silent folder and file compression that works on the fly with the NTFS file system. If you have never used it…you may have […]
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I helped do some IT work at an Insurance company over the weekend. A friend of mine is an IT manager there. I will take any chance I can to poke around a real life corporate network (Instead of playing around with a farm of Virtual Machines)…so it was worth the extra work. One of […]
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Microsoft has quietly released a beta version of Windows XP SP3 to a small group of testers. Microsoft has acknowledged the release, but will not specify what updates will be included in the final version. Microsoft said it is looking at the first half of next year for the final release, but said this is […]
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Once and a while we visit local customers. It is a great way to see our software working in the real world, and find out what we can do to make our products better. Many times I will be asked to solve an issue (That has nothing to do with our software) This week while […]
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I had a question from a reader this week – Steve. I was wondering. Do you know how to add a new domain to an exchange 2003 server without going into each user account? It just happens that I added IntelliAdmin.org to our Exchange server a few weeks ago. The thing that strikes me about […]
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I had a problem for the last few weeks. I can no longer download or upload EXE, ZIP, COM, or VBS files via FTP. Recently the hosting provider has had some serious virus troubles and they have instituted a new policy. All EXE, ZIP, VBS, and COM files are blocked. So now I have a […]
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Like I was saying yesterday I now have a Windows 2003 server as a simple router for friends and family at my cabin up north. The trouble is, I don’t really need to have more than one computer up there. There is no reason why I can’t surf and check my email on this server […]
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I have a machine that runs at a cabin up in northern Michigan. For the longest time it was a Windows 2000 server. It is a simple file server, DHCP, and a NAT device for a few neighbors that use it via wireless. I finally made the plunge and upgraded it to Windows 2003. Before […]
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Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell have released their first major utility since Sysinternals was purchased by Microsoft. The tool named Active Directory Explorer 1.0 allows you to browse through raw Active Directory data. It is the perfect tool to use when writing scripts that access Active Directory via LDAP queries. It allows you to find […]
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