Iordanis Kazanas – Virtual Systems Administrator
if you’re an admin on the domain and all your computers are up and running you could try PSGETSID.EXE from what used to be Sysinternals (now part of Microsoft). Command would be something like: PSGETSID \\* > sid.txt http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s…s/default.aspx http://live.sysinternals.com/
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage clonehd image_to_convert.vmdk converted.vdi –format VDI –variant standard
MySQL Workbench provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for: Database Design & Modeling SQL Development (replacing MySQL Query Browser) Database Administration (replacing MySQL Administrator) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/
If you cannot see the names in the AD you need to do this : http://blog.schertz.name/2010/09/updating-the-lync-2010-address-book/ Update Clients Just as Office Communicator has done since a later R2 hotfix, Lync also will not immediately download changes to the Address Book files when first launched, but instead wait for a random interval of time between 1 and … Read more
When booting Windows 2008 R2 you see this screen : _________________________ Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert the Windows 2008 R2 DVD and reboot. 2. Press a key when you see “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD…” 3. … Read more
You can do it by starting Print Management (printmanagement.msc) and go to Print servers > <COMPUTERNAME> > Ports and delete the ports there. Or you can execute printui /s /t2 as an Administrator “Unable to remove driver X, Type 3 – User Mode driver. The specified printer driver is currently in use.” You have to … Read more
In Active Directory Module for Windows Powershell run this command : Search-ADAccount -AccountDisabled -UsersOnly | Format-Table name, sid -AutoSize
Save the code below to a ps1 file and execute. $User = read-host -Prompt “Enter Username” “User ” + $User + ” is a member of the following groups:” ForEach ($Group in Get-DistributionGroup) { ForEach ($Member in Get-DistributionGroupMember -identity $Group | Where { $_.Name –eq $User }) { $Group.name } } Saved the file as … Read more
Unable to install certain windows updates? Look here : http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update Try this too : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058 If that does not work then put Windows XP into Clean boot and try updating again.. Step 1: Start the System Configuration Utility Click Start, click Run, type msconfig, and then click OK. The System Configuration Utility dialog box is … Read more
From the Lync management shell : get-csuser | Select-Object DisplayName, SAMAccountname, SIPAddress >c:\lync_enabled_users.log