Bonus Outlook tools. For some additional tools to help you manage Outlook files and contents, don’t forget about all the awesome (and portable) Outlook tools offered recently by Nir Sofer. Outlook/Office Utilities – (freeware) – NirSoft. NK2View – (freeware) – Did you know that if you use Outlook the email names used in the To/Cc […]
If you are debugging why a particular user always is being locked out with his/her domain account, then you may want to give this tool a spin. It’s a freebie from Microsoft called “Account Lockout Status“, and what it will do is to let you see some useful info on the users bad password count etc. on […]
Want to see which files/directories are included/excluded from your TSM backup? Run this command on the system, and it will compile you a list of active in/excludes. C:\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc q inclexcl (Path to dsmc may differ).
I looked for this for ages, but at some point I got my google search right and this is what it turned out; http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/configure-services-mmc-to-open-in-standard-view-by-default/ Credits to Ramesh Srinivasan for writing this short guide; The Services MMC Snap-In has two views namely Standard and Extended. The Extended view provides information about the selected service in the […]
Want to seriously harden your Windows installation? You may find some inspiration here; http://nvd.nist.gov/fdcc/index.cfm this is an ongoing IT hardening project driven by the US NIST with help from the NSA and USAF among others. Maybe not that useful to the regular user, but might be inspirational to corporate users.
You maybe aware of utilities like ERD (from Microsoft former Winternals, sadly only available to certain Microsoft License holders) that will allow you to change the password for a Windows account, thus effectivelyallowing you access to the data on the pc/server? There can be legitimate reasons for this (forgotten passwords etc), but some users may have […]
It is always nice to get hold of cool add on’s to applications you use often, especially if they add extra cool functionallity. This add on to outlook will help you reduce your mailbox size by deleting redundant data (which is always nice as your mailbox just keep growing), I won’t go into details as this blog […]
I just stumbled across a blog post from Claus Valca refering to VistaPE, as I could judge this is more or less a replacement for BartPE which has been dead in the water since 2006. VistaPE should allow you to create a bootable CD/DVD with the Vista kernal (much as BartPE did with the XP kernal), this is […]
DoubleTwist will allow you to sync music and video from Itunes to a lot of other devices than Iphone/Ipod (such as PSP, Blackberry, Nokia etc), and whom other than DVD JON to be involved in such an annoyance to Apple. Download a free beta from the DoubleTwist website. .
Apple launched their new Iphone 3Gs yesterday, the main new features lists; Improved speed (3.6 times faster than the previous model) and a new 3.2 mbit camera with video option. So will this cut it, well I don’t know, a 3.2 mbit camera seem a bit outdated today and still there is the problem with […]