I recently had two older model Compaq servers blue screen after a P2V conversion. In each case the physical machines had a diagnostic partition (without an assigned drive letter) on disk before the boot/C: partition. While using the VMware Converter this volume was de-selected and not migrated to the virtual…
I had a need the other day to restore a deleted OU from a Windows 2003 Active Directory. This used to be such a big deal; requiring the AD, Server and Backup guys all working together. Authoritative restores are such a pain in the rear, but Active Administrator by Scriptlogic has…
Sometimes it is really easy to figure out a user’s password. Just check out that picture to the right. Other times the password is less obvious but could come from a list of passwords you already know. For example, if your helpdesk always resets passwords to the same few values, many…
I thought I would share the script I made to create 10,000 test users in an NT 4.0 domain for my test lab. I should note a couple of things: When I first ran this script, my domain only had the default ‘guest’ and ‘administrator’ accounts. I used Visual Basic…
Again, some earlier code. I’m not sure how good this works…I had ran it for a few weeks awhile back. However, my IP address changed and I received a lot of notifications before I had a chance to resolve it. The script would be better if it contained some sort…