Tips & Tricks for IT
GPO Central Store Update for Windows 7 (External)
My Colleague Alex Verboon has a great article on updating your Group Policy Central Store with your Windows 7 ADMX templates, a must for any GPO Administrator.
Michael
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GPO Search Tool
about 4 months ago - No comments
My colleague Alex Verboon posted up a link to a great tool the other day for GPO. Take a look: http://gps.cloudapp.net/ Share and Enjoy:
How do i: Rejoin computer to the same account?
about 5 months ago - No comments
Pet hate of mine is creation of new computer accounts (ahhh) for machines that have been reimaged, rejoining the same account is actually really simple! Open up AD Users & Computers Find your computer account Right click an hit “Reset” Join the computer to the domain with the old account. Bam, computers back on the
Forgotten Tools: Altiris DS
about 5 months ago - No comments
As consultants we always have the challenge of migrating from one Desktop OS to a Newer Version and normally we stick to the same products: USMT, SCCM and Radia CAE; Its rare that we deviate from this because we know that USMT + SCCM or Radia is bullet proof, millions of desktops have been migrated
Windows + BootCamp (Mac)
about 5 months ago - No comments
Mitch Garvis has a great article on running Windows 7 with BootCamp on Intel Based Macs. See here: Click Here Share and Enjoy:
The tools of the trade, AD Management
about 9 months ago - 2 comments
As Active Directory administrators we are accustomed to our AD Users & Computer’s, Sites and Services and Domains and trusts snapin. And on their own they are great tools and can get some really good information or do some really smart tasks but in general it takes a long time to get tangible information out
Way cool feature in Windows 7 with Bing
about 10 months ago - No comments
Thanks to one of my colleagues for showing me this, its really cool! Daily Bing search engine images consist of awesome collection of photos from amazing nature photos to holiday sensitive events. If you really don’t have time to change desktop wallpaper then you can use this great feature in Windows 7 to grab images
Windows 98, Where it all started for me
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
With all the stuff in our modern operating systems its easy to take the small things for granted. Booting your Windows 7 install off your USB Key, watching videos on youtube, RSS’ing up your Favourite news / comic feeds, listening to your favourite music over Spotify or finishing your Engineering Diagrams for college on your
8 Things To Think About For Windows 7
about 10 months ago - No comments
Great article on some things to think about with Windows 7 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301670&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Security Share and Enjoy:
Finding when a user last logged on
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
In this case ADSIEdit.msc is our friend (this is found on the Windows 2003 support pack or from the Administrative tools on your 2008 DC / in the RSAT pack on Windows Vista / 7. So open up adsiedit.msc Connect to your Domain Naming context, navigate to the users account and right click and go
Windows 7 Skype Bug
about 1 year ago - No comments
So you’ve got Windows 7 and Skype installed; Your browsing your sites and suddenly you get a “Internet Explorer has stopped responding” message… Odd It hasn’t crashed ? All my tabs are the same…. Good news, its just the Skype ActivX addins, for some reason crashing or terminating abnormally. To fix simply disable them by
