My Amazon.com order arrived today. Another DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack with UltraViolet digital copy. Since my last experience with UltraViolet was less than stellar, I took some notes on my second experience to see if things had improved. This time around my UltraViolet and Flixter accounts have been setup, and those accounts are configured on my […]
Read More UltraViolet Follow UpThis is a PowerShell script that will send an email notification to Active Directory users when their password will expire in 14, 7, 3, 1, and Zero days. Administrators/helpdesk also get a daily report of passwords that are expired and the users who got an email reminder, a great heads up for your helpdesk. The […]
Read More Active Directory Password Expiration Email NotificationI’ve found it’s often helpful to get an email notification when an Active Directory account is locked out. In a previous job we used Account Lockout Examiner from NetWrix for this functionality. A few years and a job or two later and I’ve found a way to do this with the Windows Task Scheduler and […]
Read More Active Directory Account Lockout Notifications using PowerShellThe goals of the UltraViolet Digital Rights Management system are admirable. The system aims to provide buy once, watch anywhere functionality. So far however, the system has been far from living up to this promise. Currently you can only view UltraViolet content on a Windows PC, Mac, iOS, or Android based mobile device. I can’t […]
Read More Reeking of Fail: Flixter and UltraVioletI had a need to apply a Group Policy only to VMware virtual machines. One possible option was to filter on the vendor of the network adapter, which can be determined by looking at the MAC address. The public listing of company ID assignments can be found at IEEE OUI Public Listing and is updated […]
Read More Group Policy WMI Filter for Virtual MachinesPlease don’t do this. The .local TLD is a reserved namespace for MDNS. MDNS is used extensivly by Apple in their Bonjour technology which is built into OS X, and typically finds it’s way on to Windows computers via an iTunes installation. If there is ever the possiblity that Macs will be added to your […]
Read More PSA: Do not name your Active Directory domain .local!Malware is my most recent cause of headache. A specific antivirus product (looking at you SEP) has been completely worthless for preventing, detecting, and removing this stuff. Because I only have a few hours at client sites a full reinstall of Windows and applications, which would be the ideal solution, isn’t an option. Enter the […]
Read More F-Secure Rescue CDThis is my almost no configuration needed bash backup script for MySQL. The script first uses the mysql command line application to get a list of every database on your MySQL server, then loops through the list of databases and creates a separate dump file for each database. You do need to create a ~/.my.cnf […]
Read More MySQL Backup ScriptFrom Ars Technica: New school program for iOS apps doesn’t address all IT needs
Read More New school program for iOS apps doesn’t address all IT needsUp until now I’ve kept gaming out of this blog. It’s supposed to be a blog about aspects of being an IT Professional, but every now and that one needs a diversion. Anyway… Yes I purchased StarCraft II, but not on release day, and I didn’t pre-order. I did go for the digital download option. […]
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