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Sep

Return distinguished name of a user

Posted by danovich  Published in Scripting, Tools

This handy script is an easy way to return the DN of a user based on the sAMAccountName (aka username) that you give it. You can also provide wildcards. Usage: cscript DNname.vbs username eg. cscript DNname.vbs john.citizen Will return: “CN=john.citizen,OU=Standard,OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com” eg. cscript DNname.vbs john* Will return: “CN=john.citizen,OU=Standard,OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com” “CN=john.peterson,OU=Standard,OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com” eg. cscript DNname.vbs *john* Will return: “CN=john.citizen,OU=Standard,OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com” [...]

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Tags: distinguished name, DN, script

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7

Sep

Office Communicator 2007 and Live Meeting ADM templates for Port Range

Posted by danovich  Published in OCS / Lync, Tools

The default UDP/TCP port range used by the Office Communicator 2007 client is 1024-65535. The Real Time Media Communications stack in Office Communicator 2007 allocates the media port dynamically in this range. To control the specific range of ports that need to be open on a firewall, a registry key setting is provided to force [...]

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Tags: ADM templates, firewall, Live Meeting, Live Meeting Client Port Range, OCS, OCS R2, Office Communicator 2007, port range, port ranges

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1

Sep

optushome.com.au emails stop working?

Posted by danovich  Published in Geek

For those of you who are unaware, optushome.com.au is a domain name belonging to Optus from when their broadband product was called Optus @ Home. There are many thousand of customers including myself who have been using Optus Cable broadband for over 8 years and therefore have a optushome.com.au email address. Then last night, without [...]

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