Category Archives: windows

Find Mac From IP

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Blake

Today I wrote a little script that will find the MAC address of a given IP that is on the same LAN. The script pings the IP, then it checks the ARP cache to find the MAC. Pretty simple, yet … Continue reading →

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Use Windows Server 2008 R2 as a desktop OS

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Blake

I am very happy with Window 7. I enjoy the OS quite a bit. The only problem that I have is, there is very poor virtual machine support. Other people may disagree with me here, but I don’t like Windows … Continue reading →

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Find Operations Masters in Active Directory

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Blake

EDIT: I have found a much easier way to list the FSMO Roles holders. From a command line on any domain controller, Type netdom query FSMO   Thanks to Microsoft, I have an easy solution to finding the FSMO Roles … Continue reading →

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Change Operations Masters in Active Directory

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Blake

Each FSMO Role has a different procedure to change the owner: RID, PDC, and Infrastructure Roles: From the computer that you want to make the new FSMO Role holder: Open Active Directory Users and Computers MMC Right-Click on the Domain … Continue reading →

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Use Apache, PHP, and MSSQL on Windows

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Blake

This is how I made the php_mssql extension work on my Windows/Apache/MSSQL/PHP (WAMP) Server. Download Apache. (I used the Win32 Binary including OpenSSL 0.9.8m (MSI Installer)) Download PHP. (I used the PHP 5.2.13 zip package) Download ntwdblib.dll.   Run the … Continue reading →

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Userenv Events 1030 and 1058

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Blake

I keep getting Userenv errors 1030 and 1058 on one of my domain controllers. The description of Event ID 1058 says “Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}, CN=Policies, CN=System, DC=MyDomain, DC=com. The file must be present at … Continue reading →

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MSDTC event 53258

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Blake

I work with windows virtual machines a LOT. One thing that I have noticed is that if a windows VM that has been copied, NewSided (had NewSid run on it), and has been added to a domain, it can generate … Continue reading →

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Unblock “unsafe” attachments in Outlook

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Blake

So I went to open the .exe file that I sent myself yesterday and I found out that Outlook 2007 will not let you download “unsafe” attachments (unsafe meaning “Any file with an executable extension”). This bothered me, so I … Continue reading →

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