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		<title>AD Password Reset and Bulk Modify</title>
		<link>http://jrudd.org/2008/12/ad-password-reset-and-bulk-modify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Rudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modify]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Password]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[password control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[student passwords]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 display info about the account and give you the option to change the password, enable/disable <a href='http://jrudd.org/2008/12/ad-password-reset-and-bulk-modify/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who in the past have used the Novell Change Pass utility may have been missing it when moving to Active Directory.</p>
<p>A great tool is <a href="http://www.wisesoft.co.uk/Products/PasswordControl/Main/default.aspx" target="_blank">Wisesoft Password Control</a> which allows you to just type in the username, it will display info about the account and give you the option to change the password, enable/disable the account and unlock the account.<br />
It is ideal to make available to teachers for resetting the student passwords if you use the Delegate control option in AD Users and Computers for your student OU&#8217;s.</p>
<p>The other useful tool on the website is a pair of tools <a href="http://www.wisesoft.co.uk/Products/PasswordControl/BulkPasswordControl/default.aspx" target="_blank">Bulk Password Control</a> and <a href="http://www.wisesoft.co.uk/Products/PasswordControl/BulkModify/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Bulk Modify</a>. These allow you to bulk reset the password for a large group of students, or modify the attributes for a large number of users. It can read these in from a CSV file, and match the CSV entires to either sAMaccountName or some other user attribute. You can also set the attribute based on their existing attributes.</p>
<p>After downloading it will ask you for a code that you can get with a free <a href="http://www.wisesoft.co.uk/Login/Register.aspx" target="_blank">registration </a>on their site.</p>
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		<title>OverDisk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Rudd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Folder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphical view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overdisk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pie chart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Size]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 a great free utility that displays the info in an easy to explore graphical view. <a href='http://jrudd.org/2008/06/overdisk/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently I needed to identify where all the space was going on our server. Usually I just use the <a href="http://jrudd.org//2007/11/17/folder-size-shell-extension/">Folder Size tab extension</a> but it requires scanning every time you close the Properties dialogue.</p>
<p>After looking around online I found a great free utility that displays the info in an easy to explore graphical view. <a href="http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html">OverDisk</a> scans the drive or folder (this took around 10 mins for a drive containing hundreds of home directories) and then you can save the data so it does not need to constantly rescan (unless you make changes to files).You can also have it only rescan a certain subfolder rather than the entire drive again.</p>
<p>It presents the information in a colour coded pie chart, allowing you to easily see which folders and files are using the most space.</p>
<p>You can click on the folder and the pie chart will change to reflect that folder or click the middle of graph to go up a level. Right clicking on a folder gives you an easy option to Open or Explore in Explorer.</p>
<p><a href="http://jrudd.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/od.jpg" rel="lightbox[41]"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-42" title="OverDisk" src="http://jrudd.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/od-300x224.jpg" alt="OverDisk folder space tool" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
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<li><a href="http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html">http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html</a></li>
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