This function can be found on Microsoft.com somewhere. I remember once finding some nslookup function where the author wrote the output of nslookup to a file on the hard drive, parsed it then forgot to delete it. I used that script and after a few years, I found that directory full of thousands of text files. Anyway, …

I made a decently big change tonight to Quickcode so if you use the plugin, you may want to download the updated version. The change, adding "overflow-x:scroll;" to the CSS file (in two places), stopped IE from hiding the last line of anything that was placed within the quickcode tag. I don't use IE so I …

I setup a WSUS server in a test lab and the results of client machines registering themselves with the WSUS server were flaky; especially if they weren't on the same domain as the WSUS server. One of my cloned machines was having trouble until I changed the SID with NewSID from Microsoft. The others didn't appear to …

Windows XP and 2003 (SP1) users can now download the RDP client that comes with Vista @ microsoft.com. If you don't like it and need to go back to the original version, you can possibly uninstall it or reinstall RDP 5.2. The new version supports widescreen/huge resolutions as well as auto-logins. There are a few other …

Below is a list of applications I use on a regular basis. I was actually inspired to write this post because I wanted a way to share my excitement for the free tools Virtual CloneDrive and visionapp Remote Desktop. After starting the post, however, I realized that there's actually a lot of really cool applications that …

Recently, two of the network administrators at my firm ran into an issue with the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in. ADUC often loaded slowly. Sometimes rebooting would fix the issue, sometimes it wouldn't. I never had an issue but I didn't use ADUC as often on my workstation (I use it primarily on the …

SQLPrompt, also known as SQL Intellisense, is a great add-on to SQL Workbench and Query Analyser available from red-gate software. SQLPrompt is described on their website as * Code completion for fast, accurate script building * Discoverability in SQL Server query creation * Keyword formatting, code snippet integration …

I'm working on a few Active Directory scripts that require knowing the full path or "distinguished name" of the user object. All I know initially is the username and domain name and I found a script at Hey, Scripting Guy! that is really useful -- it searches AD for the user's OU information. The only problem …

Wow, it was over a year ago that I met my friend, PowerShell developer Lee Holmes at PDC 05. As a fan of scripting and Unix, I was excited after attending a session on Microsoft's new shell, codenamed "Monad." After the session, I went to the Microsoft's lab to play around and there was Lee.. my dream nerd. …

I'm terrible with traversing alphabetic directories; when I was in high school and I took the series of military aptitude tests, that was the only one I didn't do well on. I excelled at the rest and the military did their best to court me. All I can say is that I'm one of the many potential recruits that they lost …