Create Active Directory Phonebook with Pode.Web

By ivan

Recently, I have found Pode and Pode.Web and I were so excited and wanted to create something with it. Then my boss decided that he wanted a new phone book to replace the current SharePoint list, and I saw an opportunity to use Pode.Web. For this example, I assume that Pode.Web is already downloaded and…

Microsoft Windows Security Audit Event Accesses IDs

By ivan

I’m working on a powershell script extracting the file server audit log and creating a human readable html out of it when I got stumbled by the beautiful codes below (which are really hard to find) and decided that they deserve a re-post. Thanks to this guy for translating them. The list below is from…

No Internet Access Icon Windows 7/2008

By ivan

Today I had to do this for an isolated network, it was a great reminder 🙂 https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5a69ed0c-2fcf-483c-ab1d-ad5b16fa32ca/isolated-network-without-internet-access-how-do-i-make-the-yellow-no-internet-access-icon-go?forum=w7itpronetworking I had some missing GPO templates (2008 R2 server) which are easily obtained from Microsoft Installation is straight forward and explained under Install Instructions. And yes, you need both policies enabled.

Windows 10 Privacy

By ivan

If you are using Windows 10, do yourself a favor and just use this tool http://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/

Log Off User remotely – cmd

By ivan

If you ever wondered how to log off user remotely (or locally) via command line try this. As usual membership of the local admins group is needed. Start cmd with elevated privileges. check logged user and their session number with qwinsta: QWINSTA /server:computername Memorize the session ID and use the logoff command: LOGOFF sessionID /server:computername.    

Windows 10 Technical Preview

By ivan

Installation finished – it was pretty fast, less than 10 minutes on top of my home Hyper-v to the desktop, let’s check the user experience. VM Specs are pretty standard – in the wizard I selected Generation 2 machine, gave it 2gb of RAM and 60 gb of HDD. To be honest I was impressed…

Skype advertisments

By ivan

If you like me are annoyed from the Skype advertisements during calls just add the following line in your hosts file 127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com