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This is quick and easy with AdFind and AdMod… You just have to find the users, pipe their DN and sAMAccountName to AdMod and tell it to do a rename… Like so adfind –b ou=someou,dc=domain,dc=com -f "&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(name=*,*)" samaccountname –adcsv | admod –rename {{samaccountname}} –upto 1000 That command self limits itself to only modifying up to […]

Who would have thunk it??? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jul09/07-20linuxqa.mspx “Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux […]

http://dloder.blogspot.com/2009/08/exchange-2010-rc1-and-adminsdholder.html This is just silly… Seriously. Allegedly products go through a security review, how did this make it past that? This isn’t the kind of thing that should be caught in testing as indicated by the first comment, this kind of thing should never have happened in the first place. It is, IMO, the result […]

http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2009/09/sending-e-mail-as-sms-or-text-message.html   Really useful answer by Michael W. on the Microsoft TechNet forums. If you want to send a text message from an e-mail client, most carriers allow you to do this. You send an e-mail message to number@emaildomain. For example, if you want to send a message to a T-Mobile user whose phone number […]

One of the alert joeware fans out there sent me a link to the following TechNet story that utilizes AdFind. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.09.sdadminholder.aspx While the article is a bit rough, for example sdprop isn’t responsible for AdminSDHolder[1] it is an ok article for a general sort of conceptual overview on how it works[2] and there is some […]

I have a PC that I don’t like much but have to use. I don’t like the software configuration on the machine but don’t have any real choices in the matter. I won’t go into it more than that… So today I am trying to get something done and as usual the machine is crawling […]