remote assistance

remote assistance faq

This article shows what you can expect from the new version of Remote Assistance.


vista
Open Remote Assistance by clicking the Start button , clicking All Programs, clicking Maintenance, and then clicking Windows Remote Assistance

vba controls

using a tree control
Tree View & List View Control In VBA (Access Application
TreeView.mdb )
Using TreeView Control

vba userform controls

using a tree control

gpo videos

gpo videos

mom 2005 webcast 2 view

from eileen_brown's blog also search her blog for sms stuff

Webcasts: 10 Ways to learn about MOM 2005
The following webcasts will help you learn more about MOM 2005, the latest event and performance management tool. Register to view any of the webcasts below. You can find additional MOM webcasts on the Management Webcasts page.
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Microsoft Operations Manager 2005—Exploring Microsoft's New Event and Performance Management Tool for Windows Server System and Beyond
September 02, 2004: This webcast discusses MOM's new features for managing and optimizing your infrastructure. Hear how this release builds the foundation for the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and provides a stepping stone for Microsoft's integrated change, configuration, and operations management solution, System Center.

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Managing Exchange Server with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 - Increasing Service Availability and Reducing Email Outages with MOM 2005
September 07, 2004: Learn how the Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack for MOM 2005 can help improve the health and performance of Exchange Server 2003 through specialized, proactive monitoring and alerting.

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Managing SQL Server with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 - Increasing SQL Availability and Reliability with Specialized Knowledge and Tools in MOM's SQL Management Pack
September 14, 2004: Learn how to manage SQL Server with Microsoft's premier event and performance management tool—MOM 2005. In this webcast, two Microsoft program managers will share their insight and techniques on using MOM 2005 to help ensure service availability for SQL Server 2000 and the upcoming SQL Server 2005 version.

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Monitoring your E-Business Solutions with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005—Using Built-In Knowledge in MOM 2005 to Reduce Downtime
September 16, 2004: If you're interested in improving and optimizing the performance of your BizTalk and Commerce Servers using MOM 2005, you won't want to miss this webcast. We will show you how to take advantage of powerful built-in features in MOM to effectively monitor your e-business solutions and reduce downtime.

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Using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 at Microsoft IT—How to Manage 6,000 Servers Across 225 Worldwide Sites for Maximum Performance and Availability
September 21, 2004: Gain valuable insight into how Microsoft uses MOM 2005 to help ensure its servers stay up and running. Attend this webcast for an opportunity to learn and ask the experts how they have implemented the new technology in MOM 2005 to monitor over 6,000 servers across 225 worldwide sites.

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Monitoring Solutions to Extend Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Capabilities—Service Monitoring Solution Accelerator
October 14, 2004: This webcast explores powerful solutions for improving Service Monitoring using products such as MOM 2005 and SQL Server Notification Services. Learn valuable automation techniques, best practices, and design considerations as we examine key concepts, such as MOM 2005 Service Continuity, Notification Work Flow, Alert Tuning, and Auto Ticketing.

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Real Stories of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005—Lessons Learned from our MOM 2005 Early Adopters
October 19, 2004: If you are planning a MOM 2005 deployment in the near future, watch this webcast to gain valuable insight from the experiences of participants in the MOM 2005 Technical Adopter Program. In this webcast, Omar Kouatly, owner of the program, will share highlights from the design, deployment, and troubleshooting experiences of over 30 MOM 2005 users.

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Monitoring Active Directory with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005—Using MOM 2005 to Improve Availability of One of Your Most Critical Services
November 04, 2004: Learn how MOM 2005 can significantly improve the effectiveness of Active Directory management in your organization. In this webcast, we will highlight key features of the new release of Microsoft's event and performance management tool that can help you monitor and keep your AD forests up and running.

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Installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 from Start to Finish—Your Guide to Setting Up and Testing MOM 2005
November 16, 2004: Learn from the experts how to install MOM 2005 and troubleshoot any areas of concern during the installation process. This webcast can be used as an on-demand reference for the setup, configuration, and testing of MOM 2005 in your own lab environment.

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Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 at MSN - Using MOM 2005 to Monitor One of the Largest Web Portals in the World
June 14, 2005: See how MOM 2005 is used to support the unique business requirements of MSN, Hotmail, and Passport through proactive monitoring and alerting.
Published Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:07 PM by Eileen_Brown
Filed under: Systems Management Software, Webcasts
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Scripting MOM

mom scripting

SMS Provider WMI Schema Reference

SMS Provider WMI Schema Reference
SMS 2003 SQL Server View Schema

How to delete an SMS client throughout your hierarchy

mom 2005 db

MOM Operations Database SDK Views
MOM Database Has Insufficient Allocated Space
SMS&MOM Troubleshooting MOM 2005 DTS Issues and Database Full Issues
OpsMgr, SCE And MOM Blog MOM Reporting database grooming settings tool

myITforum.com Inside MOM Database Maintenance, Part I Database Grooming

myITforum.com Inside MOM Database Maintenance, Part II Building a Data Warehouse

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Hi Norma, Unfortunately deleting data from the reporting database is not an easy task. You'll need to change the retention period using the following SQL script and then run the MOMXPartitioning and Grooming job to clear the data. I recommend only changing the retention days by a few days at a time or else the groom will fail. The SQL script is as follows: --- Update the SystemCenterReporting data retention period Declare @Groomdays int --Retain data for 180 days Select @Groomdays=180 exec p_updateGroomDays 'SC_SampledNumericDataFact_Table', @Groomdays exec p_updateGroomDays 'SC_AlertFact_Table', @Groomdays exec p_updateGroomDays 'SC_EventParameterFact_Table', @Groomdays exec p_updateGroomDays 'SC_AlertToEventFact_Table', @Groomdays exec p_updateGroomDays 'SC_EventFact_Table', @Groomdays exec p_updateGroomDays 'SC_AlertHistoryFact_Table', @Groomdays Hope this helps, Andy

take ownership of files & folders

Administrator Cannot Access Another User's Redirected My Documents Folder
Even if an administrator has not permissions he should be able to take ownership via Explorer to access the folder properties for security. If that does not work for you for some reason take a look at the free utility fileacl that is also shown on the Microsoft website as it has an option to force ownership. If you still have problems check the user rights on that computer via secpol.msc to make sure that administrators have the user right to take ownership. I believe xcacls.vbs will also let you take ownsership

Download details: SubInACL (SubInACL.exe)

Download details: FILEACL

XCACLS Gui

> Note - I'm not a scripting guru either. And as much as I love command lines, > this particular sort of thing makes me nervous. Last time I did this, I used > the GUI in the link I originally posted for you - and *added* the group > Administrators, without changing anything else. Sorry I can't help further; > you might post in m.p.windows.server.scripting if you want to do this > without the little gui helper.
After a few hours of trial and error, this is what I came up with:
@echo off for /F "tokens=*" %%* in ('dir /ad /b *') do call :Sub %%* goto :eof
:Sub echo Processing %* ... subinacl.exe /file %* /objectcopysecurity=templateuser >> fix.log subinacl.exe /file %* /replace=templateuser=%* >> fix.log fileacl.exe %* /INHERIT /REPLACE /NOROOT /SUB /FILES >> fix.log fileacl.exe %* /O %* /NOROOT /SUB /FILES >> fix.log
It iterates through all directories and for each directory does the following:
1. Copies the permissions from the folder templateuser to the current directory (this also changes the owner). 2. Replaces the permissions for "templateuser" that were copied in step 1 with the username that matches the current directory. 3. Removes all non-standard permissions from subdirectories and files in the current directory and sets the inherit flag (inherit from parent). 4. Sets the owner back to the current user.
At first I was attempting to set the permissions manually as opposed to copying them from a folder with the correct permissions, but I was unable to replicate the permissions perfectly. subinacl.exe with the / objectcopysecurity and /replace switches really came to the rescue.
I just ran it overnight. I'm going to browse through fix.log to see if there were any problems, but looking at a sample of maybe 10 folders, it appears to have worked beautifully! Thanks for the help.
Cheers, Rickard

mom 2005

MOM 2005 Resource Kit
MOM 2005 Best Practices Guides - Duncan McAlynn's Microsoft Management Blog
MOM 2005 Best Practices and Limitations
Making MOM More Secure
mom resources
Pete's Management BLOG.... Responding to Alerts via Email with MOM 2005
Pete's Management BLOG.... Numerous Recent MOM 2005 Knowledge Base ArticlesPete's Management BLOG.... December 2006 12 days of mom tips
MOM database basics
Moving the OnePoint Database from a Server Running SQL Server to Another
installing MOM to monitor SQL Server
MOM Operations Database SDK Views
FAQShop.com Welcome to the MOM Section

remote desktop kb shortcuts

When you are in a remote desktop window the keyboards shortcuts you have become familiar with change slightly. Here are a few of the more common ones:

ALT+PAGE UP - Switches between programs from left to right.
CTRL+ESC - Switches the client between a window and full screen.
ALT+HOME - Displays the Start menu.
CTRL+ALT+MINUS (–) - Places a snapshot of the active window in the Remote Desktop session on the clipboard.
CTRL+ALT+PLUS (+) - Places a snapshot of the entire Remote Desktop session window on the clipboard.
CTRL+ALT+END - Displays the Task Manager

iso tools

Virtual Clone Drive. This utility will let you mount .ISO, .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF and .BIN files. Download the utility and start the setup process
MagicDisk - This is a nice, free utility with more features, but it's not quite as simple to use.


ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

LC ISO Creator creates ISO files from CD/DVD-ROM.

download (LCISOCreator.zip - 14 kB)

from http://desktopengineer.com/home/all_articles/free_lucersoft_iso_creator

CD / DVD Data Recovery & Rescue software, featuring BD and HD DVD isobuster

lmHosta file

from

http://www.svrops.com/svrops/documents/hostsdoc.htm#Setting%20Up%20LMHOSTS%20Files
====================

The following example shows how all of these keywords are used:
102.54.94.98 localsrv #PRE

102.54.94.97 trey #PRE #DOM:networking #net group's PDC

102.54.94.102 "appname \0x14" #special app server

102.54.94.123 popular #PRE #source server

#BEGIN_ALTERNATE

#INCLUDE \\localsrv\public\lmhosts #adds LMHOSTS from this server

#INCLUDE \\trey\public\lmhosts #adds LMHOSTS from this server

#END_ALTERNATE


In the preceding example:
The servers named localsrv and trey are preloaded so they can be used later in an #INCLUDE statement in a centrally maintained LMHOSTS file.
The server named "appname \0x14" contains a special character after the 15 characters in its name (including blanks), so its name is enclosed in quotation marks.
The server named popular is preloaded, based on the #PRE keyword.
Additional Comments
LMHOSTS example:

IP Address PDCName #PRE #DOM:domainname
IP Address "domainname,,,,,\0x1b" #PRE

Where IP Address is the address of your PDC.
PDCName is the name of your PDC
domainname is the name of your Domain
and
domainname,,,,, is also the name of your Domain. However, the commas represent spaces, and in this line, your domainname must be 15 characters. If it isn't, pad it with the appropriate number of spaces to reach 15 characters.
And...use the quotes

Your PDC acts as the Domain Master Browser, and as such, should have the browse lists of all Segment Master Browsers (if you have a multi-segment network), thus a list of all network devices.

The above LMHosts file tells your PC the name of the logon domain controller (your PDC), and the second line says use the PDC as your browse master.

If you can ping your PDC and net use a share to the PDC, then the above should work.

ad auth in vba

Sorry for delayed reply.

You should still be able to use the code in your first message in VB6, for example, following code works on my side in a VB6 program:

Function AuthCheck(ByVal sUser As String, ByVal sPassword As String) As Boolean
On Error GoTo E

Dim RootDSE
Dim DSObject
Dim Auth
Dim NamingContext
Const ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION = 1

Set RootDSE = GetObject("GC://rootDSE")
NamingContext = RootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")

Set DSObject = GetObject("GC:")

Set Auth = DSObject.OpenDSObject("GC://" & NamingContext, sUser, sPassword, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION)

Set Auth = Nothing
Set DSObject = Nothing
Set RootDSE = Nothing

AuthCheck = True
Exit Function
E:
AuthCheck = False
' log the err.Description if needed
End Function


Calling AuthCheck("", "") will return True if the user/password is correct and return False if not.

If you need to use strong-typed objects, you need to reference "Active DS Type Library" in your VB6 project and use those objects accordingly. For example, OpenDSObject is a method of the interface IADsOpenDSObject.

Best regards,
Walter Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

excel user forms

Excel-VBA userforms 101 and FAQ - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk
X Factor user forms
SplashScrn
Create User Forms in Microsoft Excel
Excel VBA Code For Excel UserForms & Controls
ExcelUser -- Programming Excel

VBScript Classes

Creating Classes with VBScript
ASP 101 - Articles
DevGuru VBScript Object Class
VBScript in a Nutshell Chapter 2 Program Structure use find 2 search 4 Class Modules
Inside Microsoft Using VBScript Classes in ASP Applications
Creating Classes with VBScript 5.0

misc
JSWare - VBScripts and Components Topic and Function Index
JSWare - MSI - Windows Installer - Code and Utilities

vbscript error numbers w/ try catch class exmpl

try catch class

vbscript error ms page
==============================
Select Case Err
Case 61
sErrMsg = "Disk Full"
Case 71
sErrMsg = "Disk Not Ready"
Case 76
sErrMsg = "Path not found"
Case 70
sErrMsg = "Permission denied"

case else

sErrMsg = Err & " Undefined"

End Select

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/09/09/227461.aspx

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5 Invalid procedure call or argument 6 Overflow 7 Out of memory 9 Subscript out of range 10 This array is fixed or temporarily locked 11 Division by zero 13 Type mismatch 14 Out of string space 17 Can't perform requested operation 28 Out of stack space 35 Sub or Function not defined 48 Error in loading DLL 51 Internal error 52 Bad file name or number 53 File not found 54 Bad file mode 55 File already open 57 Device I/O error 58 File already exists 61 Disk full 62 Input past end of file 67 Too many files 68 Device unavailable 70 Permission denied 71 Disk not ready 74 Can't rename with different drive 75 Path/File access error 76 Path not found 91 Object variable not set 92 For loop not initialized 94 Invalid use of Null 322 Can't create necessary temporary file 424 Object required 429 ActiveX component can't create object 430 Class doesn't support Automation 432 File name or class name not found during Automation operation 438 Object doesn't support this property or method 440 Automation error 445 Object doesn't support this action 446 Object doesn't support named arguments 447 Object doesn't support current locale setting 448 Named argument not found 449 Argument not optional 450 Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment 451 Object not a collection 453 Specified DLL function not found 455 Code resource lock error 457 This key is already associated with an element of this collection 458 Variable uses an Automation type not supported in VBScript 462 The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable 481 Invalid picture 500 Variable is undefined 501 Illegal assignment 502 Object not safe for scripting 503 Object not safe for initializing 504 Object not safe for creating 505 Invalid or unqualified reference 506 Class not defined 507 An exception occurred32811 Element not found32812 The specified date is not available in the current locale's calendar

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Excel VBA–No Experience Necessary: Lesson 5



Sub TestPings() Dim cell As Range Dim astr() As String
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Getting Started with Macros and User Defined Functions
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excel-vba-findall-method


=========================================================
Sub Comp()
Dim rSource As Range, rTarget As Range, SourceRow%, TargetRow%

Set rSource = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(2).Range("A2").CurrentRegion
Set rTarget = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(1).Range("A2").CurrentRegion

For SourceRow = 2 To rSource.Rows.Count
For TargetRow = 2 To rTarget.Rows.Count
If rSource.Cells(SourceRow, 8).Value = rTarget.Cells(TargetRow, 8).Value And _
rSource.Cells(SourceRow, 3).Value = rTarget.Cells(TargetRow, 3).Value And _
rSource.Cells(SourceRow, 6).Value = rTarget.Cells(TargetRow, 6).Value Then
rTarget.Cells(TargetRow, 4).Value = rSource.Cells(SourceRow, 4).Value
rTarget.Cells(TargetRow, 5).Value = rSource.Cells(SourceRow, 5).Value
rTarget.Cells(TargetRow, 7).Value = rSource.Cells(SourceRow, 7).Value
End If
Next TargetRow
Next SourceRow
End Sub

excel VBA

VBA find the REAL last used cell - Tek-Tips
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VBA So where exactly do I put this macro code then?? Tek-Tips

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Query Active Directory for Information About a User
Searching Active Directory
Band-in-a-Box QuickStart Tutorial: 128k WMV .zip download
Making a New Song Arrangement

Creating Exchange Users with Excel (Part 1)

==========================================
Looping Through Cells in a Named Range
http://www.mindspring.com/~tflynn/excelvba.html
The following example loops through each cell in a named range by using a For Each...Next loop. If the value of any cell in the range exceeds the value of limit, the cell color is changed to yellow.
Sub ApplyColor()
Const Limit As Integer = 25
For Each c In Range("MyRange")
If c.Value > Limit Then
c.Interior.ColorIndex = 27
End If
Next c
End Sub

group policy

Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM).

The Optimized Desktop combines the Windows Vista Enterprise and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack to provide powerful technologies that help you secure, efficiently manage, and lower the costs of your organization's desktop infrastructure.
Welcome to GPOGUY.COM

Enforce system policies with the Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer
Top Group Policy Downloads

Windows Server 2003 Group Policy old home
Windows Server Group Policy new home
Microsoft Developer Network group policy

14-Part Webcast Series About Group Policy

petri gpo intro

grouppolicy - Group Policy Wiki

best practices

Best Practices for Designing Group Policy
Best Practices for Configuring Group Policy Objects
Best Practices for Configuring Group Policy Objects
Download details Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer for Windows Server 2003 (KB940122)
Introduce best practices for Group Policy configuration with the help of this PowerPoint presentation, from TechRepublic - Downloads - TechRepublic

Community
•
Group Policy Team Blog
•
Group Policy Wiki

Getting Started
•
Download Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
•
Step-by-Step Guide to Using Group Policy Management Console
•
Checklist: Using Group Policy Management Console
•
Group Policy Management Console Overview

Perform an AD Search Using Alternate Credentials

Perform a Search Using Alternate Credentials


Microsoft Windows XP - Create a shortcut using runas command parameters

'==========================================================================
'
' VBScript Source File -- Created with SAPIEN Technologies PrimalScript 2007
'
' NAME:
'
' AUTHOR: mike mccafferty , mmcc
' DATE : 12/2/2007
'
' COMMENT: sites of interest
' http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/2026/08/2.html
' using runAs with a shortcut
' http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_security_runas_shortcut.mspx?mfr=true
' ADU&C runas /user:DomainName\administrator "mmc %windir%\system32\dsa.msc"
' ADU&C runas /netonly /user:DomainName\UserName "mmc.exe dsa.msc"
'




'==========================================================================
Sub WMIalternateCreds1()

' From the book "Windows XP Cookbook"
' ISBN: 0596007256

' Note that you cannot use this to connect to the local machine.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strServer = "" ' e.g. wks01
strUser = "" ' e.g. AMER\rallen.adm
strPasswd = ""
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
on error resume next
set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
set objWMI = objLocator.ConnectServer(strServer, "root\cimv2", _
strUser, strPasswd)
if Err.Number <> 0 then
WScript.Echo "Authentication failed: " & Err.Description
end if

' Now you can use the objWMI object to get an instance of a class
' or perform a WQL query. Here is an example:
colDisks = objWMI.InstancesOf("Win32_LogicalDisk")


End Sub


Sub ADalternateCreds2()
Dim objConn
Set objConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.ConnectionString = "Provider=ADSDSOObject;" & _
"User ID=MyUserID;Password=MyPassword;"
objConn.Open

End Sub

Sub ADalternateCreds3()

' You get a choice, you can either
' hard-code the Domain Name (or a Domain Controller Name) only,
' then get the Distinguished Name from Root DSE:
'



Const DOMAIN_NAME = ""

Set objLDAP = GetObject("LDAP:")
Set objRootDSE = objLDAP.OpenDSObject("LDAP://" & DOMAIN_NAME &_
"/RootDSE", strUsername, strPassword)


'Or Hardcode both, and just connect directly to the target container:


Const DOMAIN_NAME = ""
Const CONTAINER_PATH = "OU=SomeOU,DC=SomeDomain,DC=local"

Set objLDAP = GetObject("LDAP:")
Set objRootDSE = objLDAP.OpenDSObject("LDAP://" & DOMAIN_NAME &_
"/" & CONTAINER_PATH, strUsername, strPassword)


' You would have to specify a value for strUsername and strPassword in all cases.
'
' Personally, I favour pulling the Distinguished Name from RootDSE rather than hard-coding it. It just makes things easier to maintain for me.
'
' Chris

End Sub


Sub ADalternateCreds1()
On Error Resume Next

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Properties("User ID") = "Administrator"
objConnection.Properties("Password") = "+77m5trgJo!"
objConnection.Properties("Encrypt Password") = TRUE
objConnection.Properties("ADSI Flag") = 1
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection

objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE

objCommand.CommandText = _
"SELECT Name FROM 'LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=com' WHERE objectCategory='user'"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
objRecordSet.MoveFirst

Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
Wscript.Echo objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop

end sub

Log Parser 2.2

WindowsDevCenter.com -- Using Log Parser 2.2
Log Parser 2.2 and ASP.NET
TechNet Webcast: Efficient Data Mining with Log Parser 2.2 (Level 300)
Microsoft TechNet column Tales from the Script - January 2005 All You Need is Log (Well, Log Parser)
Finding Duplicate Names in Active Directory - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of a senior engineer specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers
Complex Queries Against Active Directory - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of a senior engineer specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

free tools

Carl J » 15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins
Carl J » 15+ FREE Visual Studio Add-ins - Part 2
Carl J » 21+ FREE Regular Expression Tools & Resources (for .Net Developers)

regularExpressions 2

regex101
Regular Expression Visualizers for VS 2005

parse-textObject – AWK with a vengeance.

Carl J » 21+ FREE Regular Expression Tools & Resources (for .Net Developers)

For those starting out with Regex'es or those who are old hands here are some resources to help.
.NET Framework Developer's Guide .NET Framework Regular Expressions
Character Classes such as . \d \s [ ] defined.
Quantifiers such as + * ? { }
Options such as Multiline Compiled SingleLine
.Net Classes such as Regex Match MatchCollection GroupCollection
Examples
Tutorials
30 Minute Regex Tutorial on CodeProject.
.Net Coders Regex Overview breaks down groups and matches in one of the best overviews of the topics.
Introduction to Regular Expressions on CodeProject.
Understanding Basic Regular Expression Syntax (Section 3.10.) in the CodeProject's book chapter preview Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook. Its a preview of Chapter 3: Strings and Regular Expressions.
Eric Gunnerson's Regex 101. A listing of differing match topics. Great for a beginner to look at after acquiring the basics of Regex, many examples.
How to: Search Strings Using Regular Expressions (C# Programming Guide) in MSDN Library.
Topics
Regular Expressions and the If Conditional on OmegaCoder's blog.
Want faster regular expressions? Maybe you should think about that IgnoreCase option...
(Compilation) For an overview of the three different modes, interpreted, on-the-fly compiled and precompiled see the MSDN article CLR Inside Out, "Base Class Library Performance Tips and Tricks"
(Compilation To an Assembly) section 3.13. Building a Regular Expression Library in the CodeProject's book chapter preview Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook. Its a preview of Chapter 3: Strings and Regular Expressions.
Regex and Balanced Matching by Ryan Byington (MSFT) see als How to use RegexOptions IgnorePatternWhitspace from the Base Class Library (BCL) Team Blog.
A look into Matching Balanced Constructs with .NET Regular Expressions by Wes Haggard.
Regex Hangs My Expression by David Gutierrez in the BCL team blog.
The RegexOptions.Compiled Flag and Slow Performance on 64-Bit .NET Framework 2.0 BCL Team Blog
Programs (Not Sponsored or Endorsed by Microsoft) Just listed; no order implied.
Regular Expression Designer (.Net 1)
Expresso (.Net 2)(Free but registration) Used by most regex'ers; tool updated in 2007 to version 3.
RegEx Buddy ($)
Regular Expression WorkBench (.Net 1.1)(Free)
Regular Expression Visualizer for VS2005 by Roy Osherove. Write up about it here at Visual Studio Hacks. Its a VS2005 add-in.
Regulator also by Osherove, which is a stand alone regex tester.
Web Based Regex Testers
.Net Coders Expression Tester
Regex Testor by RegExLib.com main site has library of regex'es for browsing.
Other Non Regex Tools
GPLEX Lexical Analyzer for when Regex comes up short and a forum post that gives an example of its usage.
Forums
RegexAdvice.com is where the core regexer's, many different languages not just .net, give advice. Let them know you are using the .Net version.
Google Groups Regex Discussing Regular Expressions in variuos tools (perl, php, egrep, PowerGREP, .NET, procmail etc. etc). Let's help each other build effective regexes!
ASP Message Board : Regular expressions general discussions.
Books
Regular Expressions with .NET (ebook) by Dan Appleman.
Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl.
Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta.
Regular Expression Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (ebook) by Nathan Good.

Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units,

InformIT Managing OUs, Users, and Groups in Active Directory Administering OUS
Scripts and Files of the Inside Active Directory book
Rem Managing GPO Links
TechTasks Code Center VBScript
Display OUs (VBScript) - Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd edition
VBScript OUs
Modify-the-General-Properties-of-an-OU