Once you have your domain and group policies set up, it can become frustrating to constantly have to remember to move a new computer into the correct OU. Luckily in Windows 2003 and above, you can set a default OU: redircmp ou=ComputersOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com Remember to replace the path with your own domain’s OU path. Also, your [...]

Today, I was looking at my printer queue and realised that Claire had tried to print something from the internet to my work printer. This meant that unless I went to the office – it would not print. A problem. Because Claire had decided to use my laptop rather than one of the desktops, I [...]

I’ve set up a WordPress site for a client and have had no end of troubles trying to get the site to behave – however there seems to be a constant problem of WordPress hanging. Looking further into it – I discovered that the feeds in the Dashboard were making the browser and site hang. [...]

Something that comes up irregularly with clients: How do I change the settings of the logon screen for Citrix’s web interface? And the good news is that it’s quite simple. Open up your webbrowser and goto https://nfuseserver/citrix/metaframe/wiadmin remembering to change nfuseserver with the name of your own server. Once in, you can configure your farms [...]

I needed to delete a chunk of cookies today – but I didn’t want to delete them all. Thankfully there is a handy command that is within Windows versions after XP such as Server 2003 and Vista that will enable to clean up without too many problems. The forfiles command will allow you to set [...]

Anyone using Facebook will know that it’s quite annoying losing a good chunk of screen real estate to the adverts on the right hand side. Of course, many others think so and there is a nice extension that will block various adverts around the internet including Facebook’s own. Now, I’m not going to get into [...]