Microsoft provides several free tools that are very useful for managing disks and file systems. Here are 7 free tools every administrator should download: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/ff404221.aspx

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While using SCCM 2007 R2 to deploy a Windows XP SP3 sysprepped image, I was constantly getting an issue when the imaged machine starts up for the first time and runs the sysprep mini-setup – “Setup was unable to change the password for user account Administrator. Please enter the desired password again.“. After spending some [...]

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In an Active Directory domain network environment, you apply a “Desktop Wallpaper” Group Policy setting to the domain users. However, the setting is not applied to domain users who log on to client computers that are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 – taken straight from the Microsoft support site. I was having [...]

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Even in Windows 7, there still isn’t a Group Policy setting that will let you add the ‘My Computer’ icon to the desktop (unless you forcibly change the Start Menu to Classic) and then change the name from My Computer to anything else. I am very surprised this isn’t a setting but we can still modify the [...]

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There is a new attack on older versions of WordPress doing the rounds and my version of WordPress (2.8.9 – only just behind the current version of 2.9.1) was vunerable and was compromised. I first noticed yesterday when all of the traffic to blog.danovich.com.au was getting redirected to www.chinaontv.com about 5 seconds after loading. Investigations [...]

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I’ve often needed to obtain the MSI or a single EXE file for an enterprise deployment of Adobe Reader, Flash Player or Shockwave Player. Adobe now provide a single web page where you can request a license to download these files: http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html Don’t worry – there is no cost to it. The form only took [...]

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