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Disable SBS console

This will replace all the users passwords in UserOU with Newpassword!
Update the italicised items to suit you domain
Option Explicit
Dim objOU, objUser
Dim strPassword
Dim intCounter, intAccValue, intPwdValue
‘————————
strPassword = “Newpassword!”
intAccValue = 544
intCounter = 0
set objOU =GetObject(“LDAP://OU=UserOU,OU=MyCompanyOU,C=MyDomain,DC=LOCAL“)
For each objUser in objOU
If objUser.class=”user” then
objUser.SetPassword strPassword
objUser.SetInfo
objUser.Put “userAccountControl”, intAccValue
objUser.SetInfo
intCounter = intCounter +1
End if
next
WScript.Echo strPassword & ” is Password. UserAccountValue = ” _
& [...]

In order to configure your Blackberry to pick up e-mail from your server  you need to go to this website
https://bis.ap.blackberry.com/html?brand=vodaau
you will need your login username and password. Contact Vodafone on 1300 30 10 30 for assistance on getting usernames and passwords. Generally they will be able to configure the settings for you.
You will need to [...]

How to cut down SBS monitoring memory usage on SBS 2003.

This one is a keeper http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I accidentally tried to install Ubuntu over my 500gb data disk. It deleted the NFTS partition then wrote its own ext4 file systems to the disk. Fortunately it died with an error then I realised my mistake.
The lovely folk over at expert sexchange referred me [...]

By default Windows 7 and 2008 no longer display the quick launch toolbar. Some users prefer this to the new taskbar method of pinning programs. The problem with pinning is you cannot create distinct shortcuts to particular files, you can only group like files on the program that executes it.

To add the quick launch toolbar [...]

Do save having to manually edit and create uniform signature files for users, you can implement this VBS script which gathers information from Active directory about the user and inserts it into the appropriate signature folder on their system. At the bottom you will find the signature.htm and signature.txt files to edit and save
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‘Modify Reg [...]

If you follow this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309814 to configure automatically detect settings in Internet explorer and have set up a WPAD alias on your DNS server, you may find the autodiscovery is not working.
If you try to ping wpad or wpad.domainname.local you get a response Ping request could not find host wpad. Please check the name [...]

I’m at 2cx training which is a terminal server add on for publishing applications and load balancing terminal servers.
If you manage hundreds of systems using remote desktop like we do, managing all the connections can get messy. 2cx provide a free terminal server client which allows you to add all the connections within the client, and to [...]

If you need to set send as permissions for a distribution group, you may find that when you go to the properties for the group you are missing the required security tab

In order to see the security group tab you need to enable Advanced Features from the view menu in active directory

Now when you go [...]