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As posted on several blogs, including those by Brian McCann and Jane Lewis , this update resolves issues with XP and WS03 clients when they are within scope of DC management for a site using an WS08 RODC. The MS Support article is interesting (and humorous...
I received quite a bit of feedback on DCIS recently that indicated a few bugs in the activescan.vbs script. I think those are fixed now. At least from what I can verify from my testing. I also decided to outfit activescan.vbs with the ability to accept...
I've been saying for years that computers are just plain ugly. They could be made into almost any shape, form factor or color scheme imaginable. But we end up with gray, silver and black. Dell at least tries to dress the XPS line up a bit, as does...
According to Gartner , those wonderful, benevolent number-crunching folks, worldwide sales for HP and Dell showed some interesting net results . Worldwide, as in: outside the United States, HP was the clear winner for 2007, compared with 2006. However...
I have to wonder what it will be like when Microsoft is no longer the dominant player in the software industry. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing. Certainly business has taught us that well enough. Remember the dynasties of IBM, U.S. Steel, Xerox, and Kodak...
A customer I recently met was having problems with many workstations not ever showing up in their WSUS administration console. After eliminating the usual suspects, I learned they were imaging their XP clients with Symantec Ghost. I don't want to poo...
Here's one that will scour your domain for disabled computer accounts and delete them. It then sends an e-mail report to list which computers were deleted to whomever you choose. Remember to edit the settings near the top to suit your environment. Enjoy...