- In helping a visitor to troubleshoot running my IIS FTP ban script, I realized that while XP makes it appear as though it doesn't support banning users by IP address, it actually does provide that support; you just have to ban the IPs programatically. …
Read More - The day that Office 2007 came out, I logged in to MSDN and downloaded the ISO. A good seven hours later, I was still attempting to install the suite of apps. I run Windows Server 2003 on my laptop and wondered if that was a problem but the system requirements listing said that Office 2007 was compatible with Win2k3. My …
Read More - I recently created a plugin called currentMusic, which is derived from the WordPress plugins Current Mood and Scrobbler. currentMusic supports something similar to LiveJournal's "Current Music" functinality. The plugin uses Last.FM to see what you were likely listening to at the time that you posted. It works …
Read More - I'm researching Offer Remote Assistance currently and dang, we had about 54 things to fix before we got the process going. First, we had to take all sorts of steps to enable "Offer Remote Assistance" in Group Policy. Then, we had several SID related issues which created the following events in Event Viewer: …
Read More - Recently, I wanted to write a web-based front end to AD User Management for our help desk. The way that I set it up apparently broke some Kerberos delegation rules and even though Microsoft wrote a step-by-step guide on how to get IIS and Kerberos delegation going, the solution didn't work for me. If I turned off …
Read More - 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, …
Read More 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 …
Read More- 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 …
Read More 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 …
Read More- 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 …
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