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Active Directory is a hierarchical database that holds information about the network’s resources such as computers, servers, users, groups and more. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Normal administrative tasks when working with Active Directory include creating, managing, moving, editing and sometimes – deleting – various objects…

How can I open protected MS Excel files if I lost (or never knew) the password for opening them? Loosing a password for an important document could become a real problem. At best, it means that you loose some time recovering the password or retyping all the data. Current password recovery solutions offer brute-force tools…

One of the biggest nags for an IT administrator facing the need to format and reinstall a Windows-based operating system is the need to recover that system’s Product ID (or CD-Key). Normally you’d find the Product ID for the installed Windows OS either on the computer’s sticker (found on the bottom of a laptop, or…

How can I recover a deleted dynamic NTFS or FAT32 volume in Windows XP or Windows 2000? When you delete a dynamic volume, the OS erases the volume’s file-system boot sector (sector 0) and removes the volume entry from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Disk Management snap-in private region database. However, as part of this…

In the following article, I will demonstrate how to Record Secure Remote Access SSL VPN Gateway Sessions, using Terminal Services/ in conjunction with ObserveIT. In this deployment, all secure remote access SSL VPN sessions are routed through one or more central remote access gateways, with secondary remote desktop sessions serving as the method to access…

In this article I would like to use the opportunity to tell you a bit about ObserveIT – A company which I have recently began working for (read more about my new job at my “My new job – VP Technologies for ObserveIT – Enterprise Scale Window Server Session Recording” article). Do you use any…

Where can I set an administrative e-mail address, so that if an e-mail is sent to a recipient that does not exist or is misspelled, the e-mail message will be forwarded to the Exchange administrator? The easiest way is to go to the properties of your virtual server and go to the ‘Messages’ tab. Add…

How can I reboot my Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro by using a shortcut or a script? Sometimes you’ll need to reboot your modem in order to make is synchronize with your network carrier, or just to save changes you’ve made to its’ configuration. The easiest way I’ve found it to use a simple Telnet script. The…

How can I raise the forest function level in a Windows Server 2003-based Active Directory? Functional levels are an extension of the mixed/native mode concept introduced in Windows 2000 to activate new Active Directory features after all the domain controllers in the domain or forest are running the Windows Server 2003 operating system. When a…

How can I raise the domain function level in a Windows Server 2003-based domain? Functional levels are an extension of the mixed/native mode concept introduced in Windows 2000 to activate new Active Directory features after all the domain controllers in the domain or forest are running the Windows Server 2003 operating system. When a computer…

…Yes. There are at least 3 ways I can think of right now. Method #1 The easiest way is to run the command ​eventvwr.exe ”computername where computername is the name of the computer you want to view. Method #2 Another way is to run eventvwr.exe and then right click Event Viewer (local) and choose Connect…

How can I quickly shut down all the computers on my network? Use the FOR command combined with the SHUTDOWN command: ​FOR /L %i in (1,1,254) DO shutdown ”192.168.0.%i Windows XP will let you log-off all users in one line: ​FOR /L %i in (1,1,254) DO shutdown ”192.168.0.%i /l Change 192.168.0 to match you own…