Calculate Subnet Mask Function
Most developers don’t have much of a clue about network fundamentals. What may be a simple thing for a network engineer or system administrator may leave a developer simply scratching his or her head.
Changing a Users Password from Code
Changing an Active Directory user password is not really too difficult. You can even build the function into your own application, by leveraging some Windows API functions.
Hello, World in the App Store
Like many of you, I’ve been doing some testing with Windows 8 RTM. It’s been a bit of a learning experience, with new ways of doing familiar tasks. One thing that I enjoy is perusing the App Store, just to see what is new, and what other developer types are up to.
How to find all GCs in a domain
How can you quickly find the global catalog servers in your domain? Two command-line tools can be helpful here.
CSS Template: Pend Oreille
The inspiration for this fully W3C compliant “XHTML 1.1 strict” template was Pend Oreille county in eastern Washington State. The clean, uncluttered look of this design would make an appealing online presence for a business or even a blog.
Giant Windows Registry Hacks List
Looking to change the behavior of your Windows 7 computer? Maybe you need to enable or disable some functionality, make it run faster, lock it down from prying eyes? This post contains a pile of great registry hacks. If you have been around for a bit, you’ve probably seen a lot of these. However, there might be a… Read More »
Managing Portgroups with PowerCLI
If your VMware implementation contains more than a few hosts, managing port groups (or any multi-host settings) can be a real pain. In order to take advantage of cool things like vMotion, your port groups need to match across all hosts in the cluster. If one of them is misspelled, or has a bad VLAN tag, it’s a… Read More »
CSS Template: Yakima
Named for the beautiful Yakima valley in Washington state, this fully W3C compliant “XHTML 4.01 strict” template makes strong use of CSS to stylize basic and extended elements to provide a clean, attractive appearance for your website.
Grabbing System Date in a Batch File
Batch programming can be a powerful thing. Basically, anything you can run at a command prompt can be run in a batch file. Coupled with task scheduler, process automation nirvana can be achieved. However, one thing that is conspicuously is the presence of a date or time variable. For example, if you wanted to date or time encode… Read More »
MMS 2012:Desktop Management with System Center 2012
Supporting desktops in large organizations has become increasingly complex. Support teams that are looking to streamline support through improved, remote troubleshooting while working in the security constraints of ‘least privilege’ access need to look at how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Opalis and System Center Configuration Manager can be configured to work together to provide a single, easy-to-use… Read More »