Once again I have just spent around an hour troubleshooting something which on the face of it should just work – Group Policy Loopback Processing. A sure fire way to a headache. Anyway, this post saved me from my frustration. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2013/05/21/back-to-the-loopback-troubleshooting-group-policy-loopback-processing-part-2.aspx Be the first to like. Mark this post as useful. Unmark this post as
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PowerShell 3: Add Multi-line TXT Record to DNS
This had me stumped for about 30 minutes, until I finally worked out the correct syntax to make this all work. I was looking for a way to create a TXT record on my DNS server. The data though is a multi-line record – and had to be multi-line for the server to understand the
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Untangle 9.3.2 on Hyper-V 2012
I have just been playing with getting an Untangle (http://www.untangle.com) server up and running on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V install. Looking at this as a possible replacement to ISA 2004 on our current Windows SBS 2003 install. I had read up various articles of problem that have been encountered with network adapters, no mouse
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VBScript: Run an app that requires a Mapped Drive
Some software is just a pain. We encountered another program yesterday that requires a mapped drive to run off the network. You can’t use a UNC path as the hyperlinks don’t work properly to a number of linked documents. We don’t have mapped drives except for the users data and a single share. So we
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Sharepoint 2010: Unable to Display This Web Part. Error while executing web part: System.StackOverflowException: Operation caused a stack overflow.
I have got a live testing version of a SharePoint 2010 based room & reservations bookings template (which I promise I will one day finish!). Randomly, users were getting an error on their screens though. Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML
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Cannot Save Outlook Attachments when C:\ drive is Hidden
We have Outlook 2010, running on Windows 7 (both 64 bit). Our users were complaining that after opening an attachment in outlook, and going to save it, it came up with an error. Which was: ‘This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.’ To replicate
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Get AD Group Members in Text File
Just a quick post – I needed to dump all the members of all groups in an OU to a text file in a sort-of pretty way. The result? See below. This short script asks the user for an LDAP path to an OU which contains groups. The script then searches that OU for all
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VBA: Create Slide for every Picture in a Folder
This short script runs in PowerPoint VBA. It looks in a given folder for any image and creates a new slide for that image. Once the image has been inserted it determines if the image is portrait or landscape and then resizes the picture, keeping the proportions, to fit the given slide layout as best
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Resizing a Dynamic System Partition on Windows 2003 – for Free.
Ok. I have a server running Windows Small Business Server 2003. Back in the day when it was set up I naively had only a 20gb System volume, on a dynamic disk, mirrored. Unfortunately that ran out of space, so I set about extending the partition. Windows Disk Management and Diskpart in Windows 2003 don’t
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Data Protection – Just Can’t Get Enough
Ok, not strictly IT here, but important none the less. Data Protection is big, and whilst you personally cannot be prosecuted for breaching the Act, your company can be fined. Just had a check up on the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) – and found some new resources. Th!nk Privacy is a campaign developed between the
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