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Find account’s disable date and more in AD
First of all, please note that there is no disabled time stamp attribute in AD. Having said that, here are some tips to find when an account was disabled in Active directory: You can use ADSIedit to look at an account’s properties. Scroll all the way down and look at the Attribute called “whenChanged”. This will tell you when the account was disabled.
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Windows 7 & 2008 blocks stuff downloaded from internet
So I found a very interesting fact about how Windows may tag a script/executable you downloaded from the Internet as “blocked”. So when you try to execute that script on a command line it won’t work. Yup, a very interesting ‘feature’ of Windows OSes. I have confirmed this on Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 Check it out here:
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Good WYSIWYG editor for mediawiki 1.18
I found a good looking WYSIWYG mediawiki editor called extension:WYSIWYG here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WYSIWYG Unfortunately, this version is not supported on mediawiki version 1.18 yet. I tested it myself; it really does not work on 1.18. In the extension’s discussions I found that someone has modified it and posted it to: http://wiki.linuxmatter.com/index.php/File:WYSIWYG.zip I have tested it. It works fine with version 1.18
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IPSec blocking all network traffic
We could not ping one of our servers. I looked at the event logs and found this entry: Description: The IPSec driver has entered Block mode. IPSec will discard all inbound and outbound TCP/IP network traffic that is not permitted by boot-time IPSec Policy exemptions. Really strange! I did not enable any IPsec policies, the firewall was also disabled on this server. So how did this happen? Well, the server ran out of space and somehow a registry entry got corrupt. Take a look at this KB article. The fix worked for us. Actually the whole key was missing. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\IPSec\Policy\Local When I registered the DLL , it re-created the key. Reboot…
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Black logon screen on Windows Server 2003?
So, some of our windows servers were showing a logon screen which was blacked out. I mean the logon screen was either totally black or parts of it were blacked out. I still could logon because I could see the cursor and I knew the fields but it sure was a pain! At first I thought it was a video driver issue; but a co-worker showed me this KB article. Basically the subkeys under this registry key somehow get corrupt and need to be recreated: HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Colors