A popular and convenient way of deploying software is to use Microsoft's Group Policy to assign packages (.msi files). I posted the various products I had found earlier with the post Making Setup.exe into Setup.msi. Mozilla does not offer a .MSI file for easy deployment and management. It seems to me that this would be a great direction for Mozilla to push for as it would make … [Read more...]
Use Remote Desktop to Control a Current Session
This is for Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. If you want to use Remote Desktop to control a session already logged in at the console (physically at and logged into the machine) instead of starting a new session (Windows Server 2003 default) or kicking off the current user (Windows XP default), use the following commands to achieve this. Problem: I am logged … [Read more...]
Block a country from your server, period.
If you're running a server and would like to prevent a particular country, that's right a country, from accessing the server, visit this site for help configuring your .htaccess file. You might find that you're getting a lot of spam or malicious traffic from a spam-heavy country and find it easier to block the entire nation than fighting to keep up with the never-ending … [Read more...]
Making Setup.exe into Setup.msi
This post is a little different from the usual how-to or (lite) software review. This is the result of a decent amount of time spent researching the topic of converting Setup.exe (executables) into .MSI files so that they can be easily deployed and managed through Group Policy. Where I'm at currently with this project is that I first tried WinInstall 2003LE and successfully … [Read more...]
View an Object’s Hierarchy in Active Directory
By default when searching the Active Directory, you can find an object easily but the heirarchy is not shown. You can very easily enable this so that you can locate objects and see in which Organization Unit (OU) they exist. With the Active Directory snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console open, go to View and click on Advanced Features so that there is a check mark to … [Read more...]