Archive for the ‘ technology ’ Category
I realized today that most of our printers at work did not have DNS entries. This isn’t a big problem for users because they’re on our print server and they get their printers through Group Policy. The Print server has each printer set up to the IPs. We just implemented a management system today, and [ READ MORE ]
Let’s get this out of the way first…I think that IE6 is a horrible browser. Now that that’s done, the sad truth is that many of us have to deal with IE6 on a daily basis. The school district I work for still has one quarter of the computers running Windows 2000. They have been [ READ MORE ]
In a continuing process of cleaning up horrible decisions by our predecessors, we just moved a website off one of our domain controllers. The website was moving from IIS6 to 7 (or 7.5, whatever comes with Server 2008 R2), and it required some tweaking to start working again. One of the parts that didn’t work [ READ MORE ]
Found a quick workaround for my complaint that you can’t pin items that are on network shares to the Windows 7 taskbar. All you have to do is create a folder for shortcuts to all the items, create a new toolbar on the taskbar using that folder. It shows up like the old Quicklaunch toolbar, [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a quick one-line script I’ve been using to clean up some old computer accounts in active directory. It requires the dsquery and dsrm tools from the Server 2003 Admin Pack or the Remote Server Administration Toolkit. @for /f %%a in ('DSQUERY COMPUTER -NAME *%1') do (dsrm %%a) Save that in as a batch file and it’ll [ READ MORE ]