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Mananging Exchange users and attributes from your XP desktop

Posted on January 6, 2010

So you are lazy and don't want to waste valuable seconds of your life connecting to an Exchange server to manage a recipient. Easy, add the Exchange attributes to your local copy of Active Directory Management Tools.

Works for Exchange 2000 and 2003 and Windows XP, probably works for the rest as well.

Snows

Posted on January 6, 2010
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Responding to a Schema Master Failure

Posted on December 30, 2009

There is a little known FSMO role in Active Directory called Schema Master, quite simply it manages changes to your Active Directory Schema. Whilst this is down, no schema changes can be made. Chances are, you'll forget to move this role as it isn't listed in the usual Operations Masters tab.

Does anyone know why?! Anyway, if you've ever lost or moved a Domain Controller, chances are you didn't move this role.

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What is the difference between ‘learnt’ and ‘learned’?

Posted on December 28, 2009

Apparently, not much. These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English. It's an irregular verb, and this is a part of its irregularity.

British people - 'Learnt' please.

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Dixons – The last place you want to go

Posted on December 21, 2009

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Installing and Configuring SNMP on Windows

Posted on December 11, 2009

Do you want to monitor Windows servers or clients from Cacti or something?

load_average_graph firewall_graph

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FreeTDS installation directory is not a FreeTDS installation directory

Posted on December 3, 2009

I recently discovered an error whilst trying to (re)install an older PHP version on a client's server. My client required PHP recompiling with MS SQL support. This in turn requires FreeTDS. Installing FreeTDS is very simple, but PHP wasn't.

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Ultralite D1s, not so light.

Posted on December 3, 2009

It's the width, apparently.

ultralite-wheel oem-wheel
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Porsche GT3 RS Door Handle Project

Posted on December 2, 2009

I hope to replace my standard Integra door cards with a carbon skin and Porsche GT3 RS style handles.
Window motors will be moved to the central dash area.

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SEO Friendly URLs for CubeCart in Windows

Posted on November 27, 2009

I have a client hosting CubeCart on a Windows server. Unfortunately the built in Apache 2 mod_rewrite rules that come bundled with CubeCart don't work in IIS/Helicon.

Simple fix...