Category Archives: IT Stuff

Exchange E-mail Address Policy – Force lowercase email address and change current

Since the policy grabs data from AD in whatever case it is in, you need to apply this custom prefix, which basically says Replace A for a, B for b etc %rAa%rBb%rCc%rDd%rEe%rFf%rGg%rHh%rIi%rJj%rKk%rLl%rMm%rNn%rOo%rPp%rQq%rRr%rSs%rTt%rUu%rVv%rWw%rXx%rYy%rZz You can use this with firstname.Surname@yourdomain.com thusly: %rAa%rBb%rCc%rDd%rEe%rFf%rGg%rHh%rIi%rJj%rKk%rLl%rMm%rNn%rOo%rPp%rQq%rRr%rSs%rTt%rUu%rVv%rWw%rXx%rYy%rZz%g.%s@yourdomain.com … Continue reading

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Server 2012 Windows 8 R2 Won’t boot black screen cursor BIOS update

What a crock of UEFI Shit eh ?  New fangled stuff is right n good when it works. and the info is clear to find. The shiny new BIOS will allow you to add a boot option.  The BIOS will … Continue reading

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Webdav Server 2008 r2 – System error 67 has occurred. The network name cannot be found.

Bastard. Bastard. Bastard. Round and round in circles. But at last I fixed it. In my case the fix was to change the path to the physical path from using the variable %systemroot%\ to  using simply C:\   – I guess the webdav … Continue reading

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Deleting printers with interactive Script

This is a useful VB Script you run this as admin, or better yet, let your users run it with RunAsSPC. Msgbox “Parsing Local Printers” strComputer = “.” Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2”) Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery … Continue reading

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RunasSPC – Run a single application as another user with an encrypted password

Available from: http://robotronic.de/runasspcEn.html and free for home use, this little utility is awsome. It allows you to run programs as another user, without having to type in their credentials and, most importantly, without their credentials being in plain site. It does this by creating … Continue reading

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Pure Text – paste without formatting

I use Pure Text so much I forget I even have it.  It’s wonderful.  It’s simple and it’s free. All it does is allow you to paste clipboard data as plain text.  I do this an awful lot, from, for … Continue reading

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New Install of SBS 2011 Exchange 2010 Server 2008 Users Cannot Change Their Password via OWA

In order for users on OWA or non Windows clients to change their password, Minimum Password age MUST be set to zero. Otherwise they get a not complex enough warning. This is because it is actually IIS changing the password, … Continue reading

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Script to populate AD computer object with username, PC type and time

I place the VBS in the netlogon folder and call it from within the main login script in the case of legacy systems. If using GPO based scripting, you can call it from a standalone script, or whatever you choose. … Continue reading

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Determine Session ID of current Terminal Server user via batch file

I just rattled this together for a friend, could be useful. the FOR statement MUST be on a single line to work. The first one is a bit rubbish, it determines your session ID and if Zero tells you. However, … Continue reading

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Event ID 5807 – NETLOGON (And FFMPEG, Gallery 3 & Centos)

Or why at 22:00 on a Friday night I am fucked off. I have spent all evening trying to get FFMPEG working on a Centos Server VPS, when it turned out it was there all along. (YUM: nothing to do. … Continue reading

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Trend Micro – Submitting a Phishing E-Mail, Web Site & Sample

A few days ago a few clients reported some phishing emails.  Although we all get these quite regularly, this one surprised me as the email managed to get through both Trend Hosted email and also Messagelabs. I regularly send phishing emails and similar … Continue reading

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