Assorted Active Directory things
DalePowershell Getting a list of users in a particular AD Group Getting a list of users in your AD domain via Powershell Getting a list of printers published in an…
Your journey is your journey …
“You cannot see what I see, because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know, because you know what you know. Everything you see, or hear, or…
Piper Alpha–the men
I’m currently studying the Piper Alpha Disaster for a Work Health Safety Diploma. The following is an incomplete list of who was on the Piper Alpha at the time of…
CD/DVD (Recording) Session Left Open
and surprisingly enough, Windows 7 couldn’t read it. We suggested that the customer “finalize” their recording session if they plan on distributing their CDs to others. The screenshot (right) is…
Of course “voicewarmupx” makes perfect sense
as the value to enable Windows Installer logging. Windows includes a registry-activated logging service to help diagnose Windows Installer issues. This article describes how to enable this logging service. ……
Microsoft Cortana in the enterprise
A work in progress … Well our first issue is "Cortana is disabled by company policy". We MAY need to update our group policy files to the latest Windows 10…
Updating McAfee VirusScan Enterprise DAT files manually.
In short, go to http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security-updates/security-updates.aspx and download the DAT file. The install switches are as follows: Which seems much easier than following McAfee's instructions here: How to manually update the…
So what does the Group Policy Preferences Drive Mapping log file contain?
Once you enable the logging via Group Policy, you’ll end up with a log file which contains: Environment variable dump Group Policy settings Drive mapping lists (but not the actual…
The fun of buying Melbourne International Comedy Festival tickets
I see a lot of comedy during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). *LOTS* As in 40+ shows this year. This means dealing with multiple ticketing agents, including 2 variants…
Using Samba for good
Knowing how much I love Samba, Adrian sent though a link on how to use Samba to block file encrypting viruses. The basic idea is to use fail2ban to block…