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I regularly get asked about people adding CNAMEs to DNS to set up an alias for a Windows machine. Like maybe the machine name is server123site5 and they want to call it oldserver1. They do that and all of a sudden when they try to use it the connection attempt results in a “duplicate name […]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357079,00.asp   I haven’t tried this but think I will start recommending it to any and everyone that says their PC is taking forever to start up. Every time I look at those machines they tend to have a bazillion apps that start on logon. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Ten years ago today, Windows 2000 and hence Active Directory were released to manufacturing!!! Today Active Directory is the de facto LDAP directory and the de facto Kerberos implementation… I.E. There are more AD LDAP directories and more AD Kerberos environments out there than any other LDAP directory and Kerberos implementations. Rating 3.00 out of […]

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html Rating 3.00 out of 5

This is pretty cool looking   http://arainia.com/software/gizmo/overview.php?nID=4   Gizmo Drive v2.7.6       •    Mount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive       •    Mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC       •    Mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive       •    Encrypt HD images using a passphrase       •    […]

If you want to test out Office 2010 you can get it at http://office.com/beta. I have been using the Customer Preview of O2010 for some time now and really like it for the most part. Still trying to find where certain things got moved to but getting better and better with it. Overall I found […]

Wireshark 1.2.4 became available, it runs fine on Windows 7 x64 that I have seen and didn’t require any special install like the x64 1.2.2 required. Rating 3.00 out of 5

I occasionally get asked if there are any ListServs like the ActiveDir Org list for AD. I have to respond that I don’t know and in great part don’t care as I don’t work much with Exchange anymore. However one of the Exchange MVPs tends to respond to these requests for lists on the AD […]

I usually get 3-4 emails a month with this problem… Hey joe, where you going with that gun in your hand… err no… Hey joe, how come I get this error when running against such and such an object or user or whatever?? The reason I have found about 97 times out of 100 is […]

http://trycatch.be/blogs/decaluwet/archive/2009/10/04/great-documentation-using-problem-steps-recorder.aspx   Very cool tool that watches what you do and records images and any comments you make along the way. Could see all sorts of uses for this. Just plain documentation of the steps to do something alone is awesome for any of us who have had to write step by step documentation on […]