Category Archives: General

General stuff, usually just stuff related to networking and admin.

TIP: List members of a group

Posted on Wed 7th December, 2011 by Lewis

To list all members of a known group in human readable form (without the DN) from Active Directory: dsget group “CN=MyGroup,OU=MyGroupOU,DC=domain,DC=com” -members | dsget user -fn -ln > MyGroup.txt OR to just get their display name: dsget group “CN=MyGroup,OU=MyGroupOU,DC=domain,DC=com” -members … Continue reading →

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Convert GET to POST with jQuery

Posted on Fri 30th September, 2011 by Lewis

A bit of code to convert GET values obtained from a clicked link in to a POST and send it as a post using jQuery. If you generate href values in your code for dynamic effects with jQuery, you need … Continue reading →

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Upgrading a single ESXi 4.1 host to ESXi 5

Posted on Mon 26th September, 2011 by Lewis

Rather than spend 45 minutes digging through the documentation to find the KB article which deals with your rather modest private cloud solution, here’s the link to the VMWare documentation for those of us with private clouds (servers with a … Continue reading →

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Batch scripting is not dead

Posted on Fri 23rd September, 2011 by Lewis

There’s still a little place in my heart for a decent batch script. This morsel prompts the user to enter a new computer name and then, using NETDOM, it renames the computer on the domain securely prompting for the password … Continue reading →

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Use netsh to set a static IP

Posted on Fri 23rd September, 2011 by Lewis

Since I often seem to forget the correct syntax for setting a static IP address using netsh, I’ve decided to blog it then I know where to come to remind myself! netsh interface ipv4 set address “Local Area Connection” static … Continue reading →

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Configuring FTP Firewall Support for dynamic IP in IIS 7.5

Posted on Wed 21st September, 2011 by Lewis

If like me you’re stuck with a dynamic IP address on your Internet connection but still wish to provide FTP services from IIS7.5 on Windows Server 20008R2, you may have noticed that when connecting to the FTPS server with an … Continue reading →

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WDS Client Naming Policy ignored when deploying Windows 7

Posted on Mon 19th September, 2011 by Lewis

If you find that your client naming policy as set on your Windows Deployment Services server is being ignored when you deploy a Windows 7 image, you may find that there’s a little known setting which has not been enabled … Continue reading →

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Use PowerShell to change user roaming profile locations

Posted on Fri 16th September, 2011 by Lewis

Here’s a script I used recently to change users’ roaming profile paths from one server (\\OLDSERVER) to another (\\NEWSERVER). It identifies the old server by comparing strings with a search term and only changes those. It also doesn’t just fire … Continue reading →

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