My Notes to Myself and Others... - All Comments

re: Love my mobile phone

Reader Digest — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:14:15 GMT

That's an excellent solution if you’re on diet ... but seriously, this line of thinking and acting demonstrates beautifully the difference between "effective communication" and "consuming time away" (ye, eating metaphors are always around).

re: Love my mobile phone

Erik Rozman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:49:03 GMT

Hi Rod,

Even though I like to be on the outer edge of technology my mobile is relatively on old workhorse:

Nokia 8200.

Simple yet very effective... :)

re: Love my mobile phone

Rod Trent — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:21:52 GMT

Which mobile phone do you use?

re: WindowsPE - Charting a new environment

Richard Herd — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:05:35 GMT

I followed you all the way until it came time to create a file to configure WinPE to use the alternative shell but you do not tell me what to call this file and where to put it. This is a steep hill for me but it is interesting for me. Please bear in mind that I am a bit of a newbie at this. Thanks

re: Delaying outgoing messages in Outlook

Robert — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:31:45 GMT

Some Microsoftee at the Certified Partner Program sent out an email with 100's if not 1000's of addresses in the TO line last week - there needs to be rule for "You are sending to more than X people with their email addresses in the To or CC line - are you stupid?" :-)

And of course, the same 'softee tried to RECALL the message which of course does not work once it's left an org.

re: Ejecting USB devices

Alun Jones — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:58:19 GMT

But I do think it would be fun sometimes if the USB port really had an "eject", where it would push the adapter out. :o)

re: Ejecting USB devices

Alun Jones — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:19:20 GMT

Try checking that box "Display Device Components" - makes it much better, because you can then see which device you are asking to eject. And, because it's a check-box, it's a saved setting that will show up next time you click the button.

re: Reset log file generation (Exchange)

Chris Heney — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:27:25 GMT

We have had many issues on our small business server with log files filling the hard drive due to exchange automatically turning off circular logging during a full backup...

The business owner had gotten upset and deleted all logs & set a scheduled task to remove them. Obviously a new checkpoint couldn't be created. So, thank you.

Chris Heney

ISS Manager

cheney@thecomplicmentscard.com

re: Ziff Davis -Bankrupt?!?!

Rick — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:08:28 GMT

It was sad to hear this after all the years of reading Z-D publications. Recently PC Magazine seemed to take a new direction and I was not planning on renewing (I'll read a car magazine if I want to learn about automotive features). They did an about face in some respects but then changed the distribution from twice a month to monthly in 2008. I expected to see more content in the new magazine, but alas, it was the same as before. They have an outstanding testing lab so I'd hate to see the publication's demise.

re: Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) Beta is now available

NIno — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:34:14 GMT

Damn, I just installed SP1 for Vista, and now my GPMC doesn't work anymore. I know, I know, it was uninstalled in order to be replaced with the Windows Server 2008 " Admin Pak" Thing is, All the links I have found, no longer work. I guess I will just have to wait :/ doh!

re: Experience over Theory

Erik Rozman — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:31:30 GMT

No Respect,

You managed to get a rise out of me(yes,I am predictable):

1)Since you know me, I guess you know my opinion about people starting a sentence with 'for someone that big' [u can stop shaking...]

2)For someone going by an alias I think you lost your right to criticize me personally

3)Since you obviously know me-Why don't you come up to me and tell me the same sentence in person.

re: Experience over Theory

No respect — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:35:38 GMT

For someone that big... you can be so small

re: Windows 2008 Impressions (Part V): Installing Server Core

Vish — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:14:00 GMT

What version of Server 2008 will you recommend of AD DCs and why? Can you sight some major benefits from an AD perspective?

re: Bitlocker - The Theory (Part 1 of 3)

Bitlocker — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:08:26 GMT

Any comments on this ?

re: Frozen RAM and Bitlocker (can it be defeated?)

Brian — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:46:06 GMT

There are ways of securing a system from this sort of "attack."

First, use a bios password. This insures that someone can't boot and read the frozen RAM in the machine.

Second, it has been shown that frozen memory modules can be removed and read in another computer. Gluing the memory modules in place would make this sort of thing nearly impossible.

Sounds extreme but there are times when security is more valueable than the hardware.

re: Reclaiming disk space after Vista SP1 installation

xau — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:04:12 GMT

just installed release 1840, which doesn't expire and is supposed to be RTM

anyways this worked. thanks :)

re: Reclaiming disk space after Vista SP1 installation

Alun Jones — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:20:33 GMT

Can I suggest that anyone who has installed the Release Candidates of SP1 not do this?

When SP1 is made available for use, it will require that you uninstall the SP1 RC before installing the SP1 release.

In addition, the SP1 RC is considered an 'evaluation', and will expire.

re: Set permissions on a specific service (Windows)

Randall Lasini — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:29:19 GMT

While I have successfully been able to delegate permissions to individual Users directly to services on a Windows 2003 member server, What I would like to do (and this item indicates its posible) is to use a local group (the same way builtin Groups are used) to manage access/permissions.

Is it posible to Grant access to Groups, and if so, how do you go about retrieving the group's SID?

re: Hotfix Request Web Submission Form

John Breakwell — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:00:25 GMT

The Hotfix Request Web Submission Form has been retired in favour of links within the Knowledgebase articles themselves.

blogs.msdn.com/.../the-easy-way-to-get-hold-of-msmq-hotfixes.aspx

re: AdInsight v.10

Daniel Meineck — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:13:57 GMT

Very nice feature! I love tools like this. By the way, have recently stumbled upon another cool tool for active directory auditing www.scriptlogic.com/active-directory-auditing.asp from Scriptlogic called Active Administrator. It's a whole tool center for Active Directory management! Geez, this tool probably concentrates everything I have in my collection of Active Directory management tools in a single GUI. I've tried it on my rigs. Works like a dream. And I can define if I want to track changes and actions in real time or receive reports and notifications by e-mail. Might be helpful for somebody like me needing something to take every single object in Active Directory and operations on it. One of the things I loved is the backup feature for AD objects and GPO. Granular like a ntdsutil but surely far more user friendly and easy to use. Something like ADExplorer - only 100% useful features and no bells'n'whistles . But much more powerful to me.