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Use full DNS Names and OS tags in GINA's Dropdown Dialog box
Someone on the Activedir newsgroup wanted DNS names in the logon dialog box users see rather than the NetBIOS name. I didn't initially think this was possible but the poster insisted they had seen it done before. well, 2 solutions were proffered:...
Posted 08 November 2007 06:19 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Microsoft's Awesome Stats
Anyone who's been to a conference where someone from MSFT's been talking about "How Microsoft Does IT" has probably heard this or something similar but these stats are just awesome I think (Source Bink.nu ): Microsoft internal IT: 600k...
Posted 06 November 2007 11:53 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Burn CD's and DVDs with Powershell
Included with Microsoft Vista is a new API for scripting against optical drives; the Image Mastering API version 2 or IMAPI2. This makes it possible to retrieve information from optical storage media like CDs and DVDs and write to them. The story around...
Posted 02 November 2007 05:47 PM by Austin | with no comments
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PoSH is here to stay!
I'm sure a lot of my crew are almost getting to their wits end with my persistent harping about the capabilities of Powershell and the need for anyone involved in Windows management to get on the act now. I ain't stopping though. This is probably...
Posted 02 November 2007 03:42 PM by Austin | with no comments
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TechEd IT Forum In Barcelona
Anyone visiting my blog who's going to be at TechEd in Barcelona from the 12th - 16th of November, do let me know. I'll be there and looking forward to another exciting week learning stuff and trading "war stories" with my kinda geeks...
Posted 26 October 2007 03:42 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test AD users with Powershell- Improved!
Remember the PoSH add users to AD script? Well, it got picked up by “The Man” himself, Dmitry Sotnikov of PowerGUI fame and he rolled it into a one-liner: 1..500 | ForEach-Object { New-QADUser -ParentContainer ps64.local/test -Name “testuser$_“ -SamAccountName...
Posted 25 October 2007 04:53 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Group Policy meets Powershell in a big way!
Today I attended an invitational-only product demo given by Thorbjörn Sjövold the CTO of Special Operation Software of their up coming product Specops Command . This product, in it's pre Beta version, tries to resolve the "last mile" problem...
Posted 23 October 2007 07:36 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test Users in AD - Another way...
My good friend and AD Mentor, Jorge de Almeida Pinto pointed me at a much simpler way to do this. Not with PoSH, admittedly, so not as exciting to me right now but it gets the job done and uses Joe Richard 's ADMOD tool: For groups: (replace # with...
Posted 22 October 2007 11:36 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test AD users with Powershell
Sometime last week on the Microsoft AD newsgroup, someone asked for a script to populate test users in Active Directory using a source text file with he user names and passwords. Of course, several people suggested VB scripts to do the task and Richard...
Posted 22 October 2007 09:42 AM by Austin | 1 comment(s)
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Powershell: Real Glue!
Last Friday Quest software made GA the RC of the ActiveRoles ADcmdlets. This, to me, is another significant milestone in the evolution of Microsoft's new Command line language, Powershell. The versatility continues to amaze me and there is true community...
Posted 16 October 2007 08:08 AM by Austin | with no comments
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More on Euro DEC Part Deux..
One of my favorite sessions was given by Jorge de Almeida Pinto, a well known DS MVP, whose blog is one of the most interesting reads on AD on the web. His talk was on Read Only Domain Controllers (RODCs); what they are and the challenges in managing...
Posted 08 October 2007 07:22 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Forest Functional Level upgrade notes
Make sure forest is healthy wrt replication and all DC event logs are clean. Review the following Articles: How to raise Domain and Forest functional levels in Windows Server 2003 Domain and Forest functionality Enabling Advanced Windows Server 2003 Active...
Posted 16 September 2007 06:03 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Group Policy Diagnostics Best Practice Analyzer
Ran the GPDBPA last night in my test env and it looks a useful tool even though I think you might have to be a GPO guru to get the best out of it today. Some of errors raised leave you wondering what to do next whilst others refer to KB articles. Text...
Posted 29 August 2007 10:55 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Windows System State Analyzer Tool
A real cool tool I stumbled on this holiday weekend is the Windows System State Analyzer tool used to validate system configurations and verify server application/driver compliance for the Windows Server 2008 logo and certification program . The tool...
Posted 27 August 2007 11:07 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Vista Compatibility and reliability Updates
For those running Vista, Microsoft has released some performance related updates which might fix some startup and hibernation issues you might be experiencing: An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista http...
Posted 09 August 2007 10:21 AM by Austin | 1 comment(s)
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