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Papercut
I have received a few questions asking about Papercut so here are some of the details about it and what we use it for. Papercut can run on a Windows Server (2003, 2008 or 2008 R2) using windows print queues … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Novell, Utilities, Windows
Tagged Papercut, Photocopier, photocopiers, Printer, printer usage, Printing, student laptop, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7
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Using BackupPC with DiskShadow to backup open files
This post is to assist in the setup of a BackupPC system able to backup in use files by using MS volume snapshots. It also has the benefit of only having the RSync daemon running during the backup which increases security. Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Utilities, Windows
Tagged Administrator, backup, backuppc, Cygwin, DiskShadow, Linux, noacl, openssh, rsync, Server, server 2008 R2, snapshots, Task Scheduler, VShadow, Windows 7
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Mail
I have just been setting up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 box up as a terminal server. As part of this I enabled the Desktop Experience feature, however this also enabled Windows Mail. Windows mail seems to generate large … Continue reading
Posted in Utilities, Windows
Tagged autoruns, server 2008 R2, SysInternals, terminal server
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Renaming Novell user accounts
Recently we had to change the login names for around 1200 students. As part of this rename we needed to change their Novell eDirectory account and home directory. We also needed to ensure linked systems such as an LDAP authenticated … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Moodle, Novell, Utilities
Tagged account, Active Directory, Database, eDirectory, home directories, login names, Moodle, Novell, novell edirectory, Password, username, usernames
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AD Password Reset and Bulk Modify
Those who in the past have used the Novell Change Pass utility may have been missing it when moving to Active Directory. A great tool is Wisesoft Password Control which allows you to just type in the username, it will … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Utilities, Windows
Tagged Active Directory, Modify, Password, password control, sAMaccountName, student passwords, Tools, username, utility, Wisesoft
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OverDisk
Recently I needed to identify where all the space was going on our server. Usually I just use the Folder Size tab extension but it requires scanning every time you close the Properties dialogue. After looking around online I found … Continue reading
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a freeware text editor that has a wide range of great features. I use it for nearly all my text based programming (PHP, HTML, CSS, CMD, JS, etc), for editing configuration files and reading Linux text files (i.e. … Continue reading
Posted in Utilities
Tagged ConTEXT, freeware, freeware text editor, HTML, html css, notepad, programming, regular expression, tabbed interface, Tools
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