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Turning your Linux box into a Windows Compatible Server

Sadly, as much as I’ve used different flavors of Linux, and enjoyed playing around with them, I’ve never really gotten far enough to join my linux machine to a windows domain, and actually use it as a server. This is a great writeup on how to do just that. http://www.schooltechnician.co.uk/knowledge_base/linux/turning_your_linux_box_into_a_windows_compatible_server.html

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A powerful free script language for windows domains

http://www.kixtart.org/ What’s KiXtart KiXtart is a free-format scripting language and has rich built-in functionality for easy scripting. It supports COM (providing access to ADSI, ADO, WMI, etc) and thus is easily extensible. Since version 4.50 KiXtart comes with inbuild pre-tokenization system for faster loading and smaller scripts and providing some level of intellectual property protection […]

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An absolute must for Exchange 2007 Admins…

That like to use GUI’s. http://PowerGUI.org Plug-ins are available to make it work with active directory are available here… http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx There are x64 and x86 versions available. It has all kinds of tools built-in, such as exporting and importing as CSV files,  script editor,  reports in xml, csv, and html, and so much more. It’s […]

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Importing contacts from AD into Exchange 2007

There were quite a few things that I had to do in order to get this to work. Here’s a few commands, then I’ll provide links to all of the places that helped write the commands. Cmd prompt: (this command exports every contact in your AD Domain into a csv file called, “onlycontacts.csv”) CSVDE -f […]

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