password health

Gone in 47.11 Seconds

hard drive sounds

These are some typical sounds we hear in our data recovery lab. If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files - backup immediately. If you no longer can see the drive please fill out our simple evaluation form to get a fast quote on our data recovery services.
To listen to the sound simply click on the play button(one at a time). It may take some time to load. Click on the drive manufacturer next to the sound button to learn more about common problems these drives experience.
If you want to use these sounds in your music (yes, we have received lots of requests already) - no problem, but please contact us first.

hard drive sounds

These are some typical sounds we hear in our data recovery lab. If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files - backup immediately. If you no longer can see the drive please fill out our simple evaluation form to get a fast quote on our data recovery services.
To listen to the sound simply click on the play button(one at a time). It may take some time to load. Click on the drive manufacturer next to the sound button to learn more about common problems these drives experience.
If you want to use these sounds in your music (yes, we have received lots of requests already) - no problem, but please contact us first.

spr

spreeder.com - Free online speed reading application

 Spreeder is an online speed reading utility to help train you to read faster. It does this by flashing words at a rapid rate, which helps in three ways:

1. Reduce subvocalization
2. Increase chunk comprehension
3. Eliminate backreading

You can read more about it here. To read more about spreeder's specific settings, a good blog post is here.


ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works wi

screencase-video

Web Based Screencasting Apps - Create Screencast Videos sans Software

live streaming
Mogulus
http://www.ustream.tv/
http://www.blogtv.com/

apps
http://www.manycam.com/
http://webcammax.com/

metacafe

• Metacafe Studio
• Producer Central Articles
• Producer Central Resources

BSR Screen Recorder

here are some links to screen capture programs some free others not

camtasia studio

CamStudio

ZD Recorder
screen capture software list

video capture software

Debut


Download TipCam: tutorial

» discuss

how to make a kick-ass web show!

12/16/2008 – Strap yourselves in as we run down all the tools you need to make an awesome web show, from ideas to equipment to distribution. Plus, the FU of the Week is served by Tim Gibbons, exec producer of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and Golden Globe winner, who is exploring new media with a passion!

ms secrets

pptPlex
With just a few clicks, transform your PowerPoint presentations into a zoomable canvas. Works with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.
Learn more Download it

Touchless
Get multi-touch functionality without touching. How? A webcam is used to track color based markers. This is an Office Labs community and open source project.
Learn more Try it watch the video

In addition to youtube there is Community Clips
Find "how-to" videos about Microsoft Office products made by users like yourself. Includes a screen recording application to easily create and share your own videos to help others.
Learn more Try it

Record Screencast Videos with Microsoft Office Community Clips

process explorer\monitor

Stop svchost.exe from stealing CPU cycles

Using Process Explorer to tame svchost.exe - Advanced topics

The App-V Blog : Process Monitor - Hands-On Labs and Examples
Discovering Registry Settings - PowerShell and Process Monitor

ldap queries

the basics

LDAP Search Samples for Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2000/2003

Active Directory Users and Computers Saved Queries - Ron Crumbaker ...
Active Directory Saved Queries Templates

Ldp Examples msdn


LDAP Attributes from Active Directory Users and Computers petri

Tracing LDAP calls with Powershell

Set MyUser = GetObject ("LDAP://GCName /CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=sunnydale,DC=muni")

You may also query only GCs by using the GC:// notation as follows:

Set MyUser = GetObject ("GC://GCName /CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=sunnydale,DC=muni")

You can also set properties for an object.

Set MyUser = GetObject ("LDAP://CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=sunnydale,DC=muni")
MyUser.msExchHideFromAddressLists = True
MyUser.SetInfo

Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

Extranets and Intranet Planning Resources with WSS v3 & SharePoint Server 2007 

Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

ad blogs

Here it is (in no particular order): By Tony Murray  

Ask The Directory Services Team. Kind of self-explanatory - content from the Microsoft DS Team.

Group Policy Team Blog. Similar to the above, but from Microsoft’s Group Policy team.

BPuhl’s Blog. Brian Puhl works as an Active Directory engineer for Microsoft’s IT department.

Dirteam.com / ActiveDir.org Blogs. Includes individual blogs from some of the foremost AD experts.

joeware - never stop exploring... Joe Richard’s blog.  Need I say more?

markwilson.it  Mark Wilson's blog.  Not purely AD related, but some good content

Michael's meanderings... Michael B Smith's blog.  Mostly Exchange-related content, but with a healthy dose of AD thrown in.

Open a Socket! Tony Murray's blog.  A fair chunk of it is AD related.

Windows Server 2008 blog by Kurt Roggen [BE].  The title says it all.

Directory Services/Active Directory.  Ulf B. Simon-Weidner's Blog

BSonPoSH.  Mostly Powershell content, but with some AD too.  From the aptly named Brendon Shell.

Aktives Verzeichnis Blog.  German-language AD blog from Microsoft.

Brian Desmond.  Blog by DS MVP Brian Desmond.

The Swede's blog.  Jimmy "The Swede" Andersson's blog.

sql tutorials

SQL Tutorial
3Schools-sql 




sqlZoo 


 This document  contains examples of:

• creating a table
• creating a view
• inserting rows
• updating rows
• deleting rows
• commit -- making changes permanent
• rollback -- undoing temporary changes
• enforcing integrity constraints

SQL Tutorial, Structured Query Language 101, microsoft sql, ms sql server, sql client 


SQLCourse - Interactive Online SQL Training for Beginners


This SQL programming help site lists commonly-used SQL statements, and is divided into the following sections:

• SQL Commands: Basic SQL statements for storing, retrieving, and manipulating data in a relational database.
• Table Manipulation: How SQL statements are used to manage tables inside the database.
• Advanced SQL: Advanced SQL commands.
• SQL Syntax: A single page that lists the syntax for all the SQL commands in this tutorial.

http://www.coderecipes.net/ sql tutorial

SQL GROUP BY techniques

But *WHY* Must That Column Be Contained in an Aggregate Function or the GROUP BY clause?

Collection of SQL Server Storage Best Practices
SQL Server - Speed up your Disks!

shares group has access

DumpSec v2.8.6 

SomarSoft's DumpSec is a security auditing program for Microsoft Windows® NT/XP/200x. It dumps the permissions (DACLs) and audit settings (SACLs) for the file system, registry, printers and shares in a concise, readable format, so that holes in system security are readily apparent. DumpSec also dumps user, group and replication information. 

get server name

enumerate shares

fore each share

Dump all NTFS file permissions, printer permissions, share permissions to a db.

enumerate service accounts

Clean Up After Terminated Windows Administrators


Enumerate Service Accounts from jeff hick's scripts

Change passwords on service accounts. 


Listing 15.21 Changing a Service Account Password

Script to Audit Service Accounts

If you keep getting request to create multiple (service) accounts in AD , you got to think what PowerShell can do for this task. 
================================= scripts ================
 Go to a command line and type:
dsquery user -desc *service account* > serviceaccounts.txt

or

dsquery user -desc *service account* | dsget user -samid -desc
(Where | is shift-\)
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Open Active Directory Users and Computers
Right-click Saved Queries
Select New, Query
Give it a name like "service accounts"
Click Define Query
Select Users, Contacts and Groups in Find box
Click Advanced tab
Click Field button
Select User, Description
Type *service account* in the value field
Click Add
Click OK
Now that you have a list, you can drag and drop these accounts into a new OU.

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Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
 
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
 
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
 
objCommand.CommandText = _
 " & objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext") & ">;" & _
 "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(description=*service account*));" & _
 "displayName,distinguishedName;subtree"
 
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
 
strResults = """Display Name"",""Distinguished Name"""
If objRecordset.EOF Then
        Wscript.Echo "No user accounts found."
Else
        While Not objRecordset.EOF
                strResults = strResults & VbCrLf & """" & objRecordset.Fields("displayName") & """,""" & objRecordset.Fields("distinguishedName") & """"
                objRecordset.MoveNext
        Wend
End If
 
objConnection.Close
 
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("Results.csv", True)
objFile.Write strResults
objFile.Close
Set objFile = Nothing
 
MsgBox "Done. Please see Results.csv"

vista file types

remove association

 utility  to unassociate file types in Windows Vista

Ftype

Displays or modifies file types used in file name extension associations. Used without parameters, ftype displays the file types that have open command strings defined.

Syntax

Ftype [FileType[=[OpenCommandString]]]

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Parameters

FileType   : Specifies the file type you want to display or change.

OpenCommandString   : Specifies the open command to use when opening files of this type.

/?   : Displays help at the command prompt.

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Remarks

• Within an OpenCommandString, ftype substitutes the following variables:
  • %0 or %1 are replaced with the file name that you want to open.
  • %* is replaced with all of the parameters.
  • %~ n is replaced with all of the remaining parameters, starting with the nth parameter, where n can be any number from 2 to 9.
  • %2 is replaced with the first parameter, %3 with the second, and so on.

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Examples

To display the current file types that have open command strings defined, type:

ftype

To display the current open command string for a specific file type, type:

ftype FileType

To delete the open command string for a specific file type, type:

ftype FileType=

Type:

ASSOC .pl=PerlScript FTYPE PerlScript=perl.exe %1 %* 

To invoke the Perl script, type:

script.pl 1 2 3 

To eliminate the need to type the extensions, type:

set PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% 

To invoke the Perl script, type:

script 1 2 3 

Export Active Directory Lists - updated

Corrected routine to work with any domain. This script uses various small BAT, VBS and EXE utilities. The beauty of this script is the way it reads the top-level members of a group, then process this list, determining which members are users and which ones are nested groups. It writes out the users and expands the nested groups. It then writes out the users and expands and further nested sub-group. Finally, it writes all this out to a TXT file, listing the groups and sub-groups at the top, and users below. The list is sorted and duplicate names are removed to take into account a use belonging to more than one nested list. Use the active directory MMC (View-Advanced Features)to obtain the Canonical name of object. See the readme file. Zipfile 12138ADGroupMembers.zip Readme 10530Readme.doc