Recently, two of the network administrators at my firm ran into an issue with 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 …

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 …

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 …

NetFx3.com, a Microsoft community site for .Net 3.0 has announced that the 3.0 framework is now available. While there are no changes to VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET etc like there was with 1.1 to 2.0, .NET 3.0 adds a few new frameworks, namely Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, WIndows Workflow …

Microsoft offers both current and past issues of TechNet Magazine in CHM format as free downloads. You can even get also receive free subscription via mail if you qualify (I believe you have to have some sort of buying influence in the company) here so be sure to mention your influence, even if you're stretching the …

If you are on Active Directory and your VPN Software does not set the DNS servers to your local Domain Controllers, you may encounter the following error:

The system has detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure you can contact the server that authenticated you.

This appears to be some sort of …

Spencer Ruport of netortech.com modified my FTP ban script into one that stops dictionary attacks. And he chooses not to ban via the problematic IIS way but instead creating a bad route for the offending IP address. Pretty darn ingenius.

Set objFTPSVC = GetObject("IIS://localhost/MSFTPSVC") Set objFSO = …

Near as I can figure, AD automatically sets each DC to sync time with the master DC. In order to make sure the master DC has the proper time and is set to be an available & reliable time source, run the following commands:NET TIME /SETSNTP:time.windows.com NET STOP W32TIME NET START W32TIME W32TM /config …