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ICT-HotlistThe ICT hotlist is a knowledge base containing the themes listed below:
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1. | ADSI Active Directory Scripting Interface scripts | The book "Inside Active Directory" [ISBN 0-201-61621-1] by Sakari Kouti and Mika Seitsonen contains over 60 sample scripts written in VBScript ![]() |
2. | DSADD ou DSADD group DSADD user DSMOD ou DSMOD group DSMOD user DSRM ou DSRM group DSRM user | DSADD (Windows 2003 or better)With Windows 2000 the most flexible way to add a bulk of users to the Active Directory was using VBScript but now there is ![]() |
3. | How to upgrade Windows 2000 domain controllers to Windows Server 2003 | Use the English version, it is regularly updated. ![]() |
4. | Schema Updates Require Write Access to Schema in Active Directory ® | When the schema master is changed, the access to the schema must be arranged. ![]() |
5. | How to remove data in Active Directory ® after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion | When your hardware crashes unexpectedly before you ran dcpromo. ![]() |
6. | How to Remove a Dead Domain Controller (DC) from Active Directory ® Using LDP.exe. | Download the PDF document ![]() |
7. | How can I delete a failed Domain Controller object from Active Directory ® ? | Extended instructions of the procedure ![]() |
8. | How can I forcibly transfer (seize) some or all of the FSMO Roles from one DC to another? | Yes, when your first domain controller crashes, you have large problems ![]() |
9. | Get the current policy settings in HTML | As an enterprise network admin you probably know the command GPResult /R to get the overview of the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) and Active Directory groups. To get a nice HTML overview of the RSoP you can use ![]() |
10. | Company Directory information | Petri has published an article on how to enable Active Directory Search as a desktop company directory information service ![]() |
11. | Active Directory user photo's | Using PowerShell to update an user image in Active Directory ![]() |
12. | Users with empty Manager property | Use PowerShell to create an Excel sheet containing Active Directory users with an empty Manager property ![]() |
13. | PowerShell & Active Directory | Using Windows PowerShell Cmdlets to manage Active Directory (AD DS) ![]() |
14. | List locked out users | Use PowerShell to list all the Active Directory Domain users that are currently locked out ![]() |
15. | Report Network configurations | Use PowerShell to create an Excel report containing Active Directory Sites and Subnets ![]() |
16. | List Direct reports | PowerShell script to find all direct reports of a manager in the Active Directory ![]() |
17. | ADREPLSTATUS | Finally a ReplMon replacement from Microsoft ![]() |
18. | Disable AD Groups | Disable Windows Active Directory Security Groups ![]() |
1. | 5 myths of do-it-yourself disaster recovery. Infographics by IBM. | See the infographics ![]() |
2. | 10 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail | 43% of companies that experience a disaster never reopen ![]() |
3. | BCM test failed at Dutch state broadcast stations | At november 3rd 2013 an emergency power test failed at ![]() |
4. | Dictionary of Business Continuity Management Terms. | Download the document here ![]() |
5. | Checklist Business Continuity | talkingbusinesscontinuity.com provides a free checklist tool for smaller organisations. This simple tool can be used ![]() |
6. | ISO 22301:2012 | ISO 22301 2012 is the latest business continuity management standard. Read more ![]() |
7. | Using Windows Server 2012 with the built-in Hyper-V Replica feature for BCM | Microsoft's SMB organization published a blog post where Hyper-V Replica did in fact keep two small businesses available during Hurricane Sandy. ![]() |
8. | Magic Quadrant for Business Continuity Management Planning Software | Gartner published a document about their comparison of 18 BCM planning software suppliers ![]() |
9. | Windows High Availability | A great whitepaper giving you a high level overview of Microsoft's High Availability technology. ![]() |
10. | The Top Ten Essential Qualities Of A Crisis Manager (Forbes.com) | Whether a major natural disaster, such as a hurricane, earthquake or fire, or a minor one, such as a power outage or hardware failure, crises have the potential to seriously disrupt your business. ![]() |
11. | BCM | Business Continuity Management: an introduction. ![]() |
12. | BCM | Business Continuity Management: Escalation procedure (ICT). ![]() |
13. | BCM | Business Continuity Management Example: selection process disaster / calamity preparation. ![]() |
14. | BCM | Business Continuity Management Example: selection process failure preparation ![]() |
15. | BCM | Epidemics and Business Continuity ![]() |
16. | BCM | "Best of Breed" versus an integrated software solution, a BCM analysis ![]() |
17. | BCM | Free download British style "Keep Calm Use a Business Continuity plan" ![]() |
1. | Citrix 101 | This web page provides an overview of Citrix XenApp to help you, the end user, getting the most out of this great tool. ![]() |
2. | Citrixtools.net | Just register and download great tools by Pierre Marmignon et al. for managing your Citrix® XenApp environments. ![]() |
3. | Citrix® XenApp 6.5 Powershell SDK | The Citrix® XenApp 6.5 PowerShell SDK enables customers to manage XenApp 6.5 farms using Microsoft PowerShell scripting ![]() |
4. | Citrix XenApp licensing error. | Console popup message :” Citrix XenApp cannot contact the license server” on Windows 2008(r2) with XenApp 6.0 or 6.5. When your Citrix XenApp 6.0 or 6.5 server ![]() |
5. | Running XenApp 6.5 on Windows 2008r2 and your published application File Explorer (explorer.exe) is stopping regularly? | The Solution is here: ![]() |
6. | Microsoft Software Protection | Have one or more Citrix XenApp 6.5 user(s) that receive popups stating Windows is not Genuine? ![]() |
7. | Citrix® PowerShell blog | If there is one functionality that has been requested by many it is the ability to import/export applications. With the XenApp 6.5 cmdlets ![]() |
8. | Welcome to DUCUG | A Dutch community driven Citrix User platform ![]() |
9. | Regional Settings | If you have problems setting the correct keyboard layout with the registry ![]() |
10. | Regshot | Regshot is an open-source (LGPL) registry compare utility ![]() |
11. | Remove Terminal Server Client Access Licence or Remote Desktop Client Access License | Having lots of spare Windows Remote Desktop or Terminal Server client access licenses, but a user keeps getting error messages ![]() |
12. | Quickly producing a XML/Excel download file containing all the Citrix XenApp Application parameters. | Do you want to produce a download with all the applications configured in your Citrix XenApp Farm with PowerShell? (Contains script and full examples) ![]() |
13. | Disabling Adobe Reader XI Updates Using Group Policy | Petri.co.il produced a clear article about disabling Adobe Reader XI Updates using Windows Group Policy or a registry key ![]() |
14. | XenApp application security information | Get XenApp application security information with PowerShell ![]() |
1. | Best practices checklist - adding storage capacity to a ProLiant DL380 Packaged Cluster using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | Great checklist on how to create a clustered disk, also usable for other brands of servers ![]() |
2. | How to create file shares on a cluster | Follow the step by step instruction on the creation of a share in a cluster ![]() |
3. | Error 3 When Creating a File Share on a Cluster with the Application Wizard | A problem exists within Windows 2003 Enterprise server. Shares must be created on the node the disk was created on. ![]() |
1. | 5 Database suppliers have a market share over 1% on the Dutch market. Market share of IBM, Progress and Sybase falls. | The percentage of businesses using Microsoft SQL Server has increased in the last year by as much as 5 percentage points. ![]() |
2. | About Log Shipping (SQL Server 2012) | Data is typically replicated between servers to support the following applications and requirements ![]() |
3. | Add System DSN | This registry file creates an ODBC System DSN to the MS-SQL database server ![]() |
4. | Backup Compression (SQL Server 2012) | This topic describes the compression of SQL Server backups ![]() |
5. | Error 5 restoring or backing up SQL 2005 database | Backup of SQL Server 2005 fails with error 5 [Cannot open backup device 'drive:\foldername'. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.).] ![]() |
6. | How to export a table from Microsoft SQL server 2008r2 to Excel using PowerShell | Before PowerShell you had to use the Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer to export data to Excel. This tip compares a simple query using SQL Query Analyzer versus PowerShell. ![]() |
7. | You should not disable the guest user in the msdb database in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2005 all editions | SQL Server Books Online recommends that you disable the guest user in every SQL Server 2008 and 2005 database as a best practice for securing the database server. ![]() |
8. | How to Prove It's a SAN Problem and Not a SQL Tuning Problem.
| Getting Event viewer Application log Informational warnings with Event ID 833 such as ![]() |
9. | Improving Availability (SQL Server 2008 R2) | Replication can be used to replicate data to a standby server, which provides increased availability in case of planned or unplanned system outages. ![]() |
10. | Improving Scalability and Availability (SQL Server 2008 R2) | Many applications can benefit from increased scalability and availability. Maintaining continuously-updated copies of data allows ![]() |
11. | MS-SQL server ALTER table tip | Best practices for SQL Server database ALTER table operations. ![]() |
12. | Microsoft drops OLE DB after SQL Server 2012 (Denali). | The Microsoft SQL server 2012 (former code name Denali) will be the last SQL server database engine that allows OLE DB access. ![]() |
13. | Replicating Data in a Server to Server Environment (SQL Server 2008 R2) | It is useful to divide replication into two broad categories ![]() |
14. | Quickly query a Microsoft SQL database for column information | This T-SQL statement lists the following information about a Microsoft SQL Server database ![]() |
15. | Format your SQL statement in HTML | Quickly format your SQL / TSQL statements in HTML and CSS for use in websites ![]() |
16. | Great blog entry about restoring your master database in SQL server 2012 | You probably know that Microsoft SQL server will not start when the master database is corrupt or not available. Read on how to restore it ![]() |
17. | Configuring PowerShell for SQL server 2014 | This document describes how to install the SQL-Server PowerShell CMDLets on Windows and performs some test T-SQL queries ![]() |
18. | Check your SQL server databases for errors. | Microsoft recommends that you periodically check your databases for errors. See how that easily can be implemented ![]() |
19. | SQL server configuration | Use PowerShell to query multiple SQL server configurations. ![]() |
1. | DNSCMD | Domain Name Server (DNS) mutations can be performed by scripts using command line commands (Windows 2000 or better) ![]() |
2. | DisableStrictNameChecking | Allow DNS Aliases on File Servers. DNS Aliases (CNAME) work for most of the services on a server except Windows File services ![]() |
3. | Monitoring DNS for server names | It is possible to configure debugging on the Windows DNS servers so all DNS requests are logged. ![]() |
4. | How to re-register a server in DNS | You can reboot a server or restart the NetLogon service, however this command does it on-line ![]() |
5. | DNSCMD | Some examples to retrieve information from your DNS ![]() |
6. | DNS Tools | My selection of internet based DNS tools ![]() |
7. | DNSLint | A command line DNS diagnosis tool ![]() |
1. | Mail size limit Exchange 2000 / Exchange 2003 | An e-mail message that is larger than the sending message size limit or the receiving message size limit is not delivered with Microsoft Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 ![]() |
2. | Sharing an Exchange 2007, 2010 or 365 mailbox with the Exchange Management Shell | The command is shown ![]() |
3. | How to Migrate from Zarafa to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 | A great blog about this migration. ![]() |
4. | Lync:Meet the master communicator | A great article about the possibilities of Microsoft Lync by Hewlett and Packard ![]() |
5. | Exchange 2013 / Office 365 e-mail disclaimer | How to add an email disclaimer for all users or based on Active Directory Group membership. ![]() |
6. | Exchange 2016 best practice setup | With the Exchange 2016 Preferred Architecture the Exchange team recommends how to best deploy the new e-mail environment ![]() |
1. | Privacy Shield members | Fast link to members of the Privacy Shield Framework ![]() |
2. | GDPR Handbook: Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation | A practical handbook on the EU's new data protection law ![]() |
3. | GDPR:Records of Processing Activities | A presentation: What is it, Why register, How to use... ![]() |
1. | Family tree | Mr. Arno van Soest has digitised the family tree provided by Ms. Peeters - van Soest ![]() |
1. | National Language Support (NLS) API Reference | Select an Operating System from the dropbox and get the LCID Culture Identifier, Codepage information, ![]() |
2. | Windows Keyboard Layouts | Choose a keyboard to view its layouts. To see different keyboard states, move the mouse over state keys such as Shift, Caps or AltGr. ![]() |
1. | Hewlett - Packard | HP PC Hardware Diagnostics 3-in-1 USB Key ![]() |
1. | Aarts Accountant | A former study friend started his own accountancy office ![]() |
2. | How to report a DDOS attack? | ICANN advises to prepare a DDOS attack response plan ![]() |
3. | ICT Barometer: a constant in a variable market | The ICT Barometer, EY Leadership research by Ernst & Young, ![]() |
4. | Spaarrente.nl | Daily updated lists of the highest Dutch saving interest rates ![]() |
5. | Collecting online consumer data: the good, the bad, and the unknown | Held annually on January 28th, Data Privacy Day (DPD) aims to increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues among consumers, organizations, and government officials. ![]() |
6. | What is Social engineering and the seven Weaknesses? | According to the research report "Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report"(page 19) internet attacks occur not only by flawed technology, but mostly because of naive users. ![]() |
7. | Fact sheet Office macro's | What can you do to protect your organisation and, at the same time, continue using legitimate Microsoft Office macros. ![]() |
8. | Improve the Windows 2008 security | The security of a Windows 2008 (r2) Active Directory server can be significantly improved by configuring the server to accept only signed or SSL/TLS LDAP binds ![]() |
9. | McAfee 2015 Threats Predictions | McAfee Labs has published their 2015 Threats Predictions ![]() |
10. | Passwords | A great example of social engineering ![]() |
11. | Poodle / HeartBleed / Diffie-Hellman problems. | Check the SSL encryption on your web-server ![]() |
12. | Intel Security | New Intel security (McAfee) report about online marketplaces for account and financial information. ![]() |
13. | Windows server security | Free documentation by Microsoft about enterprise security ![]() |
14. | Kaspersky Cybersecurity tips | Kaspersky labs has published an eBook with valuable tips about cyber-security. ![]() |
15. | Citrix | Citrix Ready Community Verified applications and hardware ![]() |
16. | Kaspersky | Kaspersky Lab Virus list ![]() |
17. | US-CERT | United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team information pages ![]() |
18. | SANS | SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security information ![]() |
19. | Find the value of Dutch houses | This site shows the tax evaluation of Dutch houses.. ![]() |
20. | Find your domain twins free | KnowBe4 provides a free online tool ![]() |
1. | Computer Stupitities | A large collection of stories and anecdotes about computer users calling ICT helpdesks. ![]() |
2. | HP Disaster Recovery | Very explosive demonstration of a Disaster Recovery from a complete primary to secondary location by Hewlett-Packard. ![]() |
3. | BOFH excuse server | Get your actual BOFH excuse here. ![]() |
4. | NASA | NASA's Buzzword generator ![]() |
1. | AG Connect | Dutch magazine about informationtechnology. ![]() |
2. | Computable | Independent economic and technical professional online magazine about informationtechnology. ![]() |
3. | Personal Computer Magazine NL | Dutch PC magazine. ![]() |
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1. | Cisco Systems Inc. | Network/internet switches ![]() |
2. | Citrix Xenapp and MDM | Your applications worldwide and safe accessible. ![]() |
3. | IPv6 on Windows XP | It is possible to activate IPv6 on a Windows XP Service Pack 2 with the command ![]() |
4. | IPv6 information | Final Version of IPv6 Deployment Guidelines by NIST ![]() |
5. | Linksys | Linksys networking tools (a Belkin company) ![]() |
6. | Microsoft Windows server | Microsoft Windows 2008 r2 / 2012 r2 server homepage ![]() |
7. | Netscreen | Netscreen firewalls, vpn and routers (a Juniper company) ![]() |
8. | Netcon | Spam and antivirus filtering ![]() |
9. | | Netware 4...6, Groupwise support, Suse Linux, ![]() |
10. | NTP Time Source | How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows™ Server 2008 (R2) ![]() |
11. | NETGEAR ReadyNas WLAN performance hit on Windows Vista and Windows 7. | Had a NETGEAR ReadyNas wirelessly connected to a Windows XP PC that performed well? ![]() |
12. | Secure password tips | A strong password is an important protection to help you have safer online transactions. ![]() |
13. | "Oops" | "Oops", the sound you don't want to hear in a server room, now also applies to the cloud. ![]() |
14. | KCC & RepAdmin | How to force the Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) on each targeted domain controller to immediately recalculate the inbound replication topology. ![]() |
1. | Microsoft Office Tips | Great set of Microsoft Office Tips by CREATE THE FUTURE ![]() |
2. | PowerPoint 2010 | Tips for better PowerPoint presentations ![]() |
3. | Switch Documents | Working with a lot of open Microsoft® Word™ documents? Use this macro to switch fast between them. ![]() |
4. | Add macro's to the Ribbon interface | Office 2010 has received a new interface. This document describes how macro's can be added to the Ribbon ![]() |
5. | Microsoft® Outlook 2013 new e-mail popups show longer than 3 seconds | Do you want the Microsoft® Outlook 2013 popups longer on your screen? ![]() |
6. | A Modern, People-First Inbox in Outlook 2013 | In Outlook 2013, Microsoft overhauled the message list, focusing on the way most people use it ![]() |
7. | Converting AM / PM time notation to 24 hours notation | How to convert US standard time format to 24 hours (military) format using Excel 2013 ![]() |
8. | Copying cells | Copying a formula or value in an Excel 2013 column ![]() |
1. | Fassadengrün | Nice German site over espaliers (climbing plants), trellises but above all grapes, types and cultivation and cutting ![]() |
2. | Grapes and wine in the Nederlands | Interesting Dutch site about grapes and wine in the Nederlands ![]() |
1. | Baby FTP Server | This donation ware program was build by Pablo van der Meer as a basic FTP server, without a fancy UI or lots of features. ![]() |
2. | BlueScreenView | BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' (BSoD) crashes and displays the information about all crashes in one easy table overview. ![]() |
3. | Clean up Windows 7 updates with the Disk Cleanup Wizard | Requires Windows 7 SP1. Manually download the update at Microsoft KB 2852386, run it, read the more information section and reboot the PC. ![]() |
4. | Command Prompt Here | The indispensable "Command Prompt Here" is part of the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP. On Windows 7 or better ![]() |
5. | Embarcadero from Borland | All former Borland programming languages Delphi /Jbuilder / C++ Builder. ![]() |
6. | Decay 1.20 or ForFiles | DECAY is a FREEWARE Command-line utility for Windows that allows files and directories to be deleted or moved based on how long ago they were modified or accessed. ![]() |
7. | diagram.ly / draw.io | Need to quickly make a quality network drawing and do not have your Visio with you? ![]() |
8. | Doug Knox "Show Desktop" icon | Restore missing "Show Desktop" icon to Quick Launch for Windows XP and Windows 2003 R2 server. ![]() |
9. | FileZilla | Searching for the best FTP client? ![]() |
10. | Free PC based QR-code reader. | CodeTwo software engineering offers a free QR-code reader for your Windows PC ![]() |
11. | Gadwin PrintScreen | Gadwin PrintScreen works by taking a "screenshot", letting you make a selection on the frozen screen ![]() |
12. | Free disk and hex Editor | Free Hexadecimal file and disk editor ![]() |
13. | DataProtector | Enterprise level Backup Software ![]() |
14. | Internet Explorer 10 new features | Internet Explorer 10 Caps Lock warning and Internet Explorer 10 Password revealer ![]() |
15. | Junior Icon Editor by SibCode | It’s a simple, easy to use free utility for creating and editing Windows icons ![]() |
16. | LICEcap | Simple animated screen captures. ![]() |
17. | Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer | The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and then automatically generates a Visio diagram ![]() |
18. | Microsoft Developer | Microsoft Windows Developer Network ![]() |
19. | Microsoft Technet | Microsoft Network technology ![]() |
20. | Microsoft Time Zone | Microsoft Time Zone conveniently runs in the system tray and is perfect when your colleagues work in different time zones. ![]() |
21. | paint.net | If you think mspaint.exe is to simple and PictureStore is to complex, why don't you get the free paint.net ![]() |
22. | SQLite Manager (FireFox AddOn) | Manage any SQLite database with this FireFox add-on ![]() |
23. | Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) | Windows update for larger companies ![]() |
24. | Microsoft XML NotePad 2007 | Microsoft XML NotePad 2007 is an ideal freeware program for (web)developers creating XML based applications or engineers ![]() |
25. | PDFCreator | Open Source solution for printing PDF documents from ANY application ![]() |
26. | Robocopy new feature | Starting with Windows 7 and Windows 2008r2 RoboCopy is fully supported by Microsoft and now also has a new option to run Multi-Threaded copies ![]() |
27. | Sharepoint 2013 Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) demo movie | This movie gives you a quick overview about the use of Excel 2013, Power Pivot, Power View, different data sources and Sharepoint 2013 ![]() |
28. | Unlocker | Tired of getting messages on your server like: Cannot delete file: Access is denied ![]() |
29. | Upload photographs to Active Directory and manage them for Free | You may need to add photographs to Active Directory to show them in internal Outlook 2010 messages, display in Outlook's 2010 contacts and Global Address List (GAL) ![]() |
30. | XNResource editor | Free XNResourceEditor works with all resource files (.RES) and PE modules (.EXE, .DLL, etc.) ![]() |
31. | Windows Back-up for Windows 7 | Made back-ups with Windows XP or previous Windows versions with the included Windows NT Backup tool and cannot restore files on Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2. ![]() |
32. | Windows Command Reference | This download describes the use of the command-line tools used to perform various tasks related to Windows ![]() |
33. | Wink | Wink is a free Tutorial and Presentation creation software ![]() |
34. | Free "Batch Icon Extractor" | This easy to use application creates icon files for every icon in a Windows application. ![]() |
35. | WinDirStat | WinDirStat gives you a free and clear overview of your current file sizes on your harddisk ![]() |
36. | Turn Hibernation off and remove hiberfil.sys | Use the command POWERCFG to delete the hiberfile.sys file ![]() |
37. | tail | Want to follow the last lines of a log file on a console while the file is being written? ![]() |
38. | Show NTFS ADS | Display alternate data streams of the file with normal command line tools ![]() |
39. | Duplicate Cleaner | Quickly find duplicate files on local and network disks. ![]() |
40. | Converting video formats | A free and open source solution for properly converting videos is ![]() |
41. | Offline web browsing | HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility ![]() |
42. | Attack Surface Analyzer | A great tool to analyze changes to a Windows system by installing software ![]() |
43. | Free Clock | Download the free Clock read more on all the features ![]() |
44. | Free Base64 Decoder | Base64 Decoder is ideal for decoding Base64 e-mail components and attachments and can be used with Spam and antivirus filters ![]() |
45. | Free ListPrinters | Download the free tool to show printer information on a machine and collect them ![]() |
46. | Free DateFormat | DateFormat is a program to generate dates in the format you want regardless of the current regional date format of the server or currently logged on user ![]() |
47. | Free Used-Diskspace | Used-Diskspace is a program to display the disk space statistics of the fixed disk(s) of a computer and can be run on the command prompt, in a batch or logon script without administrative rights. When the output is stored as an unicode file on a file server (see examples), command line commands can be used to prepare the data for analysis in Excel. ![]() |
48. | Free Merge1File | Merge1File is a program to merge several (unicode) text files in a folder to one resulting file. Merge1File copies the first file completely and drops a specified number of header lines from the consecutive files. ![]() |
49. | Free WinDiff | Want to quickly see the differences between two files? Download this program ![]() |
50. | Free Account Lockout Status (LockoutStatus.exe) | Want to quickly find if a user is locked out? ![]() |
51. | Free FindFileExtension | FindFileExtension is a program to find files with a particular extension (type) on a disk/folder or share ![]() |
52. | Convert a website to an image or PDF | Free website tools to create complete prints or images of a website ![]() |
53. | LTF viewer | Flawlessly opening very large text files >1GB that Notepad++ can not handle ![]() |
54. | XCA | Need to deploy certificates on linux, tomcat or Windows systems and neet to convert PKI formats? This tool can ![]() |
55. | ADREPLSTATUS | Finally a ReplMon replacement from Microsoft ![]() |
56. | EZViewer | a lightweight document viewer ![]() |
57. | MoveFile | Want to remove a file but it is not possible because of a file lock, you can try ![]() |
1. | 10 things non-technical users don’t understand about your software | If you are writing consumer software you have to understand that you and your average user have a very different level of understanding of computers. ![]() |
2. | Unskilled and unaware of it | Have you ever noticed that you rarely (if ever) meet someone who admits to having below average driving skills? How aware is a person about his/her own capabilities? ![]() |
3. | Test in multiple browsers | Developed a new webpage function or an entire website and want to see how it will look in multiple browsers ![]() |
4. | Test your PHP code online | A dedicated test page for testing PHP scripts ![]() |
5. | Hack | New TTF font makes code better readable. ![]() |
1. | fhs | Unix and Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for developers,sysadmins and users ![]() |
2. | XWiki | How to schedule an url, text or image to appear in XWiki ![]() |
3. | whois dig it | Using dig and whois on Windows 10 ![]() |
1. | Display creation date of Twitter tweets | Tim Acheson provides a free ASPtwitter library to display authenticated tweets. To format the tweet creation date I have ![]() |
2. | LunaMetrics Cheatsheet | All image sizes and layouts of the Social Media sites in one InfoGraphic ![]() |
3. | URLVoid | What is URLVoid and how can it be used with your domain? ![]() |
4. | Graph.js | A JavaScript Graph library for HTML 5 ![]() |
5. | FavIcon.ico | Convertert your PNG image to ICO format ![]() |
6. | XSS | Preventing Cross Site Scripting Attacks in ASP.NET MVC 4 ![]() |
7. | Certificates | How can you see if a certificate is DV, OV or EV? ![]() |
8. | Certificates | Online generation of a Certificate Signing Request ![]() |
1. | Review your computer's reliability and problem history | Do you want a quick overview of your Windows 7 computer's stability? Reliability Monitor is an advanced tool that ![]() |
2. | Call :Batch_subroutine | The example shows a batch file that uses subroutines ![]() |
3. | Deduplication in Windows 8 and Windows 2012 | Great article on the inner workings and managing the new Deduplication features of Windows 2012 ![]() |
4. | PowerShell | Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework ![]() |
5. | Quickly create large files at the command prompt | For example use ![]() |
6. | GodMode in Windows | All your Windows administrative tools are now available in one folder ![]() |
7. | netsh diag gui | Graphical network diagnostics tool. (Windows XP or Windows 2003 server) ![]() |
8. | Are you missing the Windows XP style "Show Desktop" icon in Windows 7? | Upgraded from Windows XP and you are missing the "Show Desktop" icon next to your Windows 7 Start Button? ![]() |
9. | Clear Pagefile.sys | Did you realize that your pagefile can contain sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers in plain text? It is easy to increase security ![]() |
10. | PowerShellers:He who controls the shell, controls the universe | Blog with tips about Microsoft PowerShell™ ![]() |
11. | Trying to activate a Windows 8 MAK code in VAMT and noticed that the product key is not accepted? | You probably have to upgrade to VAMT 3.0. This is not a separate download anymore. ![]() |
12. | SET /P variable=[promptString] | This internal batch command makes a batch possible to request user data ![]() |
13. | The VMware Admin’s Guide to Hyper-V 3.0 | The VMware Admin’s Guide to Hyper-V 3.0 is a sponsored whitepaper by VEEAM ![]() |
14. | Reduce security to run local PowerShell scripts | When you try to run the PowerShell script example "C:\test\HelloWorld.ps1" and always get the following error message ![]() |
15. | PowerShell script example: HelloWorld.ps1 | This is the HelloWorld.ps1 PowerShell script example. ![]() |
16. | Step wise manual on how to add a Windows XP shared printer to Windows 7 | Share a Printer from XP to Windows 7 by HelpDeskGeek ![]() |
17. | Let Windows 2008 Task Scheduler send e-mails to multiple recipients | As you probably know it is possible to send e-mails from the Windows Task Scheduler. ![]() |
18. | Where has Startup folder gone in Windows? | For startup items only for a specific user, the folder is located at ![]() |
19. | Windows 2008 R2 SP 1 introduces Hyper-V Dynamic Memory | Hyper-V and Dynamic Memory in Depth a Technet presentation. Date: May 17, 2011 by Bryon Surace ![]() |
20. | Windows Server Editions and licensing | Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008r2 Edition Comparison by Server Role, Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 Licensing Data Sheet ![]() |
21. | Starting Windows 7 takes longer after months of use | Are you running Windows 7 for months but is the system taking longer booting with a constant burning harddisk led? ![]() |
22. | Clean up the winsxs folder | Noticed how the winsxs folder consumes more diskspace and you want to clean it? ![]() |
23. | Virus scanning recommendations for Enterprise versions of Windows | Great article about the files and folders to exclude from Virus scanners. ![]() |
24. | sudo for Windows? | Here it is: a pseudo sudo terminal for domain based Windows machines. ![]() |
25. | How to add a (printer) driver to your Windows drivers | PnPUtil (PnPUtil.exe) is a command line tool that lets an administrator perform actions on driver packages. ![]() |
26. | How to detect you have Update 1 of windows 8.1 | The Command line command VER will not show you if you run Windows 8.1 Update 1 ![]() |
27. | Configure Windows Update to receive Office updates | Sometimes Windows Update will not search for Microsoft Office updates. Here is a script ![]() |
28. | Uptime of a Windows server or desktop | You probably all know the uptime command for Linux systems. Windows misses that handy command. Read here how to deduce the Windows server uptime ![]() |
29. | Problem Steps Recorder | Microsoft has provided a nice tool to help service desks and programmers to find a runtime bug. ![]() |
30. | Windows Bootmanager | Disable boot of a Windows server 2008, Vista and newer operating systems ![]() |
31. | Open Files and users | How can you quickly see or export all the users currently having open files on a (file) server through shares? ![]() |
32. | Active Directory user photo's | Using PowerShell to update an user image in Active Directory ![]() |
33. | How to retrieve your FTP passwords from FileZilla | Nowadays the FileZilla passwords are encrypted, just read here how to retrieve them ![]() |
34. | Start RDP remotely | What do you do when TeamViewer crashes, VNC is not installed and the domain based Windows PC you need to manage is not running Remote Desktop Services (RDP) in a foreign office outside local office hours? ![]() |
35. | Migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 | Migrating Roles and Features to Windows Server 2012 R2 ![]() |
36. | Windows Server 2016 Containers | What are they? How do they work and how are they connected? ![]() |
37. | Server Core commands | Important Server Core commands to manage Windows Server 2012 r2 ![]() |
38. | Server management from a client PC | Manage Active Directory Domain Services from a Client computer ![]() |
39. | Powershell Set-StrictMode | How can the PowerShell Cmdlet "Set-StrictMode" help you make better scripts? ![]() |
40. | Hyper-V G2 | Windows Server 2012 R2 introduces Generation 2 Virtual Machines ![]() |
41. | Show web links | Using Powershell to show all links on a web page ![]() |
42. | SCHTASKS | Remotely monitor and start Windows scheduled tasks using the command line ![]() |
43. | Papercut SMTP | The Simple Desktop Email Receiver ![]() |
44. | Copy Previous versions | How to copy Shadow Copy Volume/Previous versions schedules between servers? ![]() |
45. | Stop RDP sessions | How to stop a RDP session so you can log on to remote desktop again. ![]() |
46. | Tombstone Lifetime | How to determine Active Directory Tombstone Lifetime ![]() |
47. | Microsoft Software Support Schedules | You can find the support schedules of selected Microsoft software packages ![]() |
48. | Show GPO names for an ID | Use PowerShell to show a GPO name for an ID or all GPO ID's ![]() |
49. | Find new files with a text string | PowerShell script to find files newer or equal than a specified date containing a text string ![]() |
50. | Edge | Restoring your Edge Favorites from a backup ![]() |
51. | Choice command | How to correctly use the Choice command ![]() |