Saturday Link Roundup
DaleGroup Policy Search – powered by Windows Azure. How to bring harmony to your mixed wired and wireless networks The article discusses several different ways to cause your WiFi enabled…
Getting a list of users in an AD Group. using Vbscript.
I much prefer using Quest to do this (see this post), but I needed to use Vbscript as I had to output the results into an Excel spreadsheet. If you…
Configuring DNS Suffix Search List via Group Policy
It seemed like a good idea at the time, configure the DNS Suffix Search List centrally so everyone gets the same thing. The wheels fell off when I went to…
Bypassing Internet Explorer Group Policy lockdowns.
We lock down Internet Explorer, to prevent our non IT-savvy staff from changing settings which will break their internet access. We apply those same settings to ourselves, which isn’t as…
What happens if my Windows Domain time clock is fast …
… and I want to change it back? It depends on the operating system. The latest documentation from Microsoft states MaxAllowedPhaseOffset Registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config Version Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows…
Slow startup and/or logon times with Windows 7?
Our users were complaining of slow startup and logon performance with our Windows 7 fleet. We got Microsoft in. One of the things they recommended was deploying two hotfixes: An…
400 Bad Request and Internet Explorer.
The customer reported that they were unable to access our company intranet site. They were getting an "400 Bad Request" error from Internet Explorer. So what did I do? I…
Group Policy and WMI filtering slowness.
Having spent time investigating slow network logons, I dislike using WMI for Group Policy filtering. It just adds a layer of slowness to logons. WMI filtering does has it’s place,…
Getting a list of users in an Active Directory group.
Like the write up I did on how to get a list of users in your domain, there are several ways to do this, but the method I prefer to…
How to determine what OU your PC is in.
dsquery computer -name PCNAME - where PCNAME is the name of your computer. Or, go visit Joeware and grab the AdFind tool.