Posted by Dede Nurmansyah
on March 18, 2010
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Infrastructure,
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Q:
How do i change the default logon name on Windows logon screen?
A:
Open regedit, and modify the following key:
“HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultDomainName”
Change the value data to the desired domain name, for example FAKEDOM.
REFERENCES
Microsoft: KB555050
Tags: Windows 2003 Server
Posted by Dede Nurmansyah
on March 18, 2010
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Scripting /
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Back few month ago, i was write simple script to scanning possibly “death” machine in Active Directory. Now i would like to share with you another similar script to scanning “zombie” user’s account. In my own words, Zombie account is an account which still exist – either enabled or disabled – in Active directory while the actual user is no longer exist in organization. The zombie account could associate to user account or service account. The present of zombie account in the system, could lead to serious security issue and IT administrator should not underestimate on outcome risk might cause of it.
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Tags: Active Directory, Scripting, Windows Script Host
Posted by Dede Nurmansyah
on December 26, 2009
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Scripting /
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Recently, i was notice that numbers of computers inside of Computer OU in Active Directory larger than the actual “running” machine in the network. I believe, it’s happen because those computers – that no longer exist in the domain or network – was not deleted from Active Directory properly. The advantages of this situation are no one have idea which computer that no longer exist or removed from the network permanently. Scanning all those machines with ping test will not help either, because some of machine probably on remote location which disconnected temporary from the network. And don’t tell me to manually check it, one-by-one!
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Tags: Active Directory, Scripting, Windows Script Host
Posted by Dede Nurmansyah
on December 01, 2009
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Q:
How do i configure proxy setting used to download software updates on System Center Configuration Manager 2007?
A:
Run following command on site server:
%configmgrinstallationfolder%\bin\i386\00000409\UpdDwnldCfg /s:1.2.3.4:80 /u:badu.anak.nakal
REFERENCES
Technet: bb892795
Tags: SCCM 2007
Posted by Dede Nurmansyah
on November 30, 2009
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Q:
Help…i cannot export mailbox into .pst format using
exmerge utility. It logged an error message as below:
***************************************************************
Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program, v6.5.7529.0
Start Logging:November 30, 2009 16:17:41
****************************************************************
[16:17:41] Logging Level: None
[16:17:41] Reading settings from file ‘C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\EXMERGE.INI’.
[16:17:41] Reading list of subjects for messages to be selected from file ”
[16:17:41] Reading list of attachment names for messages to be selected from file ”
[16:17:41] List of folders to be ignored has been read. 0 folders in the list.
[16:17:41] Current machine locale ID is 0×409
[16:17:41] Operating System Version 5.2 (Build 3790)
[16:17:55] Error 8007203a opening an LDAP connection. (‘LDAP://JKTEXCH01/rootDSE’) (CADRoutines::GetNamingContextData) Continue reading…
Tags: Microsoft Exchange 2003