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Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) is a new Windows Vista command-line tool that you can use offline to install, remove, or update Windows packages. You can add a package, provided as a .cab file, to an offline Windows image. Package Manager can also enable or disable a Windows feature, either offline or on a running Windows installation. …
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Sometimes it is useful to be able to search for objects in Active Directory based on when they were created or changed, or both. The two attributes that hold this information are whenCreated and whenChanged, and they are present on all AD objects. You use these two attributes like any other in you LDAP queries, …
Introduction There has been a lot of talk in various forums about how to get Outlook Anywhere to work with NTLM authentication through ISA Server 2006. This has also been a high priority for me since single-sign on is a great feature. Users, when logging on from domain joined computers, should not have to enter …
I recently was given a couple of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition special Not For Resale evaluation packs. These were given out at the Heroes Happen Here event here in Norway. Since my main Windows Server 2008 machine, running Standard Edition, was unlicensed at the moment I thought I would upgrade it to the NFR …
Introduction A computer’s affiliation can change in many ways: From workgroup to domain. From domain to workgroup. From one domain to another domain. Common to these scenarios is that the user or users using the computer loose access to their locally stored user profiles. When a computer joins a domain it usually means the persons …
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Windows Vista comes with a huge collection of printer drivers in the box. If you need to install one or more of these drivers on a print server go to the Sharing tab of you printer and hit the Additional Drivers: Check the driver you want to install and hit OK. Windows will ask you …
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While using the Office Live Meeting 2007 client and trying to upload a Microsoft Word document (.doc) I received this error: You’ve attempted to upload a document, but the feature required to upload the document was not included in the installation of Live Meeting. You can share the document using application sharing or reinstall Live …
The Active Directory GUID converter is now available as a stand-alone HTML Application (HTA) from the download page. http://www.simonsen.bz/Download/guid.hta
A long time ago I created an HTML based application to calculate the numeric values required to hide specific combinations of drive letters through Group Policy. I also made a custom template file where you could enter the numeric value directly instead of editing the templates that came with Windows. I used to host these …
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For some reason I frequently encounter these DCOM errors on servers running SharePoint Services: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM Date: 25.05.2008 15:50:23 Event ID: 10016 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: NETWORK SERVICE Computer: server.domain.com Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID …