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Query Active Directory for User Details using Kix Script
I used to maintain another file for user email signatures but that is really daft when you can store and maintain it in AD. This is how to grab the users details from Active Directory using Kixtart Script. $oADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") $strUser =...
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Dansguardian causing Windows Update Error: 8024402F
Just had a problem with a failing Windows Update on a Windows 2008 R2 Server "Windows Update Error: 8024402F" On further investigation found that dansguardian was denying the connection to the cab file because the word "babe" was in the URL: # the following was all on...
Excel 2003 opens workbooks very slow across the network
Just had a situation where a user couldn't open a 9MB excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet had heaps of formulas and links. When opening Excel sat there with (Not Responding) in the Title Bar. Attempted a few things in an attempt to fault find the problem: Tried...
Linux MTU Discovery
I keep having to Google how to discover the correct MTU for a link so I'm going to blog about it to save the effort. The command to test for the MTU in Linux is: ping -M do -s <bytes> <ip address> First a succesful MTU test ping: ping -M do -s 1372...
Installing Google Chromium Browser in Fedora 15
This is what I did (you need to have wget installed first. i.e su -c "yum install wget") # as root do the following cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget -nd http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo yum update yum install chromium
