Juicy Tools

 My adorable wife signed up to JillianMichaels.com a few days ago and has started the diet program. The site is pretty good and has a wealth of information and tips. Most come directly from her in the form of blog posts which is also great. Basically, Jillian Michaels has you fill out a  3 page questionnaire that tells you what kind of “oxidizer” you are. From what I’ve read, Oxidizer theories are still rather undocumented. After that, she customizes a daily meal plan (she even gives you printable shopping lists) and tells you to exercise. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you thinking about purchasing Windows Vista? If you are, you may want to read these seven points before making that purchase. If you are about to purchase a Dell, HP, or Gateway computer, try to find one with Windows XP preinstalled. Sometimes these can be found in the small-business section. And most of the time, you don’t really need to be a small business. Good luck and enjoy the tips.

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You need to install Windows support tools installed on a Global Catalog server and then run the bwloe command.
1) Start –> Run –> ADSIEdit.msc
2) Expand the “Domain” container.
2) Expand DC=Domain,DC=com.
3) Right click on the OU from where you want to export the SMTP addresses,and select Proeprties.
4) Look for the property “distinguishedName” and double click on it. Copy the value on it.
5) Paste it in a Notepad.
6) Open a ccommand prompt and type the below command.
csvde -f c:\addresses.csv -d “<paste the value from Notepad>” -r (mailnickname=*) -l mailnickname,proxyaddresses -p subtree

You will have the output in a csv file in the path specified. Open that in excel and do the formating as required.

Can’t upload files using manager? Maybe you can’t change the configuration.php file or Global Configuration in the backed. If this is happening to you, permissions may be to blame. If you’ve CHMOD’d everything correctly and you’re still getting trouble, then you may have Group permission problems.

This happened to me on LiquidWeb. Basically, I was moving my site and FTP’ing Joomla files from another server but LiquidWeb was not assigning the “nobody” group to them. This made my Joomla Administrator backend untouchable. Below is the way to fix it. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes an administrator needs to query Active Directory for specific information. In my case, I needed a way to extract the first name, last name and email address from all users in our domain. Thankfully, Microsoft offers a way to do this that is quite easy. Read the rest of this entry »