When adding a trusted domain or migrating computers to a new domain, the login prompt often defaults to the old domain or the name of the workstation. This can cause confusion for users who are often confused about computers by default ;)

In order to make their lives easier, you can set their default login domain by …

In order for Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) to install its Agent on a newly migrated computer, the user running the ADMT tool must have local Administrator access. Otherwise, the error log shows something similar to the following:

WRN1:7290 Processor architecture for machine \NT4MACHINE is unknown, Error …

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Function fSortArray(aSortThisArray) Set oArrayList = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList" ) For iElement = 0 To UBound(aSortThisArray) oArrayList.Add aSortThisArray(iElement) Next oArrayList.Sort set fSortArray = …

Dang, Gina! My black Macbook has been a pain this past week. I'm having unexpected shutdowns galore. Called Apple about 5 times and they offered to replace it as it is a DOA.

I've read around the Internet that others are experiencing this problem... Many have concluded that it is a faulty logic board. Here are a few of …

This snippet has come in handy quite a few times for me...

Call ListFolderContents("C:\Windows\System32\Drivers")

Sub ListFolderContents(path) set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set folder = fs.GetFolder(path) Msgbox folder.path

For each item in folder.SubFolders …

I'm using Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool to migrate users from an NT 4.0 Domain to a Win2k3 Domain. The process seems mostly flawless so far except that the password settings (not the password itself) are lost after migrating the users and their passwords. Suddenly, all migrated users on the new domain …

UPDATE 12/18/06: The startup script has been modified slightly (cscript.exe was changed to wscript.exe). Now, console users will no longer encounter a blank black box upon login. UPDATE 11/21/06: Now that banning at the IP level has been added to the script, offending users are completely banned before they can even …

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I recently used "tar" improperly and inadvertently created a file which seemed near impossible to delete. The file started with two dashes; it was named --exclude.tgz. I issued each of the following commands with no luck: boudreaux:~ # rm --exclude.tgz rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for …

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I.like(bigButts) && I.canLie(false); otherBrothers.canDeny(false); when (girl.walksIn()) { if (girl.hasIttyBittyWaist() && roundThing.getLocation()==your.FACE) { you.getSprung(); } }