A request from one of our support technicians said "Please exclude www.acompany.com:6969 from the proxy server.". Note that it's the :6969 which is important here. It tells the web browser…
I have lots of USB memory sticks. I have plenty of lanyards as well. Who doesn’t? Go to a conference, get a lanyard, get a USB memory stick. Identifying what’s…
Google, by itself, only gets you so far when you’re hunting down a Microsoft problem. Sometimes you need to do some advance searching to find your answer. Here are some…
Some program installations use InstallShield, and the program files are compressed into Data .cab files. But InstallShield decided to be cute, and use their own propriety format with older versions…
You take all your computer accounts in Active Directory, filter out the old records (I use a cut-off of 30 days), and then compare it to your SMS or SCCM…
Use the LastLogonTimeStamp or the LastLogin Active Directory attribute. If you are on a Windows 2003 Functional Domain or later, use LastLogonTimeStamp. If you are on a Windows 2000 Functional…
Use the WP Super Cache plugin. In the case of Wisefaq.com, pages load three times quicker with it. JErm asked in the comments for the “Make it go faster –…
Want to get around “we only ship to USA addresses” problem with some online vendors? Well there are a couple of vendors who can help you for a price. Disclaimer:…
I first read about MaxPatchCacheSize, and how to use it to save space in Virtual Machines, over at Jeremy Jameson's blog. From the Microsoft MSDN Library entry for MaxPatchCacheSize: "The…
I’d like to say it was a backup problem, but see if you can spot the flaw in the customer’s “I make backups” argument, which I’ve condensed down to the…
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