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Create Outlook accounts from the command line
We have gotten your emails, and fixed a few bugs with our Profile Generator beta. All of them were special side cases that prevented a generated profile from being used by outlook. What is profile...
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Get an email notification on system logon
I was digging around to find a way to get an email when someone logged on to our source control server. It is a pretty important server, so I want to make sure people are only logging into it when...
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Remove the Windows 7 “Auto Maximize” feature
If you are using Windows 7, then you must have run into the “Auto Maximize” feature. Microsoft calls it “Smart Window Arrangement” Here is a short youtube clip that shows you what I am talking about:...
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Disable CD/DVD Burning – Remotely
I got a question from Thomas this week: Our office has a licensed copy of Network Administrator 3.0 which allows me to disable CD/DVD access. Is there an action that will allow me just disable the...
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Get Windows to Remember Network Share Passwords
We have a fax server here that drops all of its incoming faxes to a shared folder. Unfortunately, because of the way it was designed it cannot be joined to our local domain. This means it has its own...
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Windows 8 – Enable the Admin Share
I am surprised by the number of you asking how to enable the admin share in Windows 8 – I wrote this article to show you how. What is the admin share? It is a special share that allows programs to...
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10 Free E-Books from Microsoft Press
I told you two weeks ago about a free e-book from Microsoft. Well this week, I came across a blog posting from MS that has 10 of them! Here are the books: -SQL Server 2012 -SQL Server 2008 R2...
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Free Virtualization Software
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I found myself in a situation where I wanted to test some software (Dad wanted to install some free stuff, but I thought it might have spyware)…but I didn’t want to...
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File and Drive Defrag Tool – UltraDefrag
Almost a year ago I wrote about defraging drives from the command line. I got an email from John that week: “Hi Steve, I wanted to let you know about a free defragmentation tool. It is called...
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Enable File and Printer sharing from a script
File and printer sharing is needed for a variety of Windows administration tools. Our Remote Control, and Network Administrator need it to do their work. If you want to use the remote execution tool...
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Tabbed folder view for Windows
I came across a neat utility this week that you might like. It changes the folder view in Windows (Windows Explorer) so it can have a tabbed view just like in Google Chrome: It is a simple one, but it...
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Microsoft’s best kept secret – EMET
I have been using the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit from Microsoft for quite some time now (EMET). It is a great way to keep yourself protected from the unknown – unknown and yet to be...
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