Recent content by OzCDN

It has been a while since I implemented this. I believe that it was done through logon script and I would assume that local admin privilidges were necessary.

A lot of the newer high speed home routers have some form of VPN built into them ... this would allow the two machines to appear to be on the same network but still maintain security. You may be able to have the XP machine connect to the other by having one of these switches at the ME site. I...

G'day all, I'm just setting up an AD domain with Exch2003. I was under the impression that you can e-mail directly to an OU but I cannot see any way to mail enable it. Alternately, is there any way to populate a mail D/L automatically with the contents of an OU (something that would keep it up...

You da man! That is exactly what I needed (and scriptable too!!). It was Outlook 2003 on XP btw ... sorry for omitting. Later ...

I am going to be making a change over to a new mail system in the near future. We would like to keep the Autocomplete feature but I would like to clear the cache so that old (incorrect) addresses are no longer suggested. Office help explains how to delete them one at a time but now way to clear...

ckugo is suggesting that your clients have the Remote Desktop feature turned off. If this is the case you cannot use the Remote Assistance feature to connect to them. If you right-click on My Computer and select the "Remote" tab you will see all the Remote assistance options. Check to see if...

The standard procedure for this is to leave it directly attached to the network but have one static machine (i.e. a print server)set it up as a local printer through a "Standard TCP/IP" port. Then you share this "local printer" out. This has serveral advantages including: - centralized location...

If the share is located on a Win2k or newer server then it may have the "Caching" disabled ... which means you will not get the option to "Make available offline". This setting is made on the server when you set up the share.

I just installed a DLink wireless card on a WinXP-SP2 machine and I noticed that the interface for connecting to a wireless network is very different. Since this is my first time using a D-Link and wireless on SP2 I'm wondering if this difference is from the D-Link software or is it a SP2...

Looks like it is online now ... see Bill's link above.

I realize that this thread is about a scripting solution but I wanted to mention a tool for making a cloned computer unique. With the Ghost software package there is a small program called GhostWalk (ghstwalk.exe) ... this program takes an existing install of XP (or any NT based OS) and gives...

Thanks again ... here is the code I ended up using. The two lines I added pick up the machine name from the registry. I dropped the "on error" so that we can track any failures. --------------------------------------- Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") strComputer =...

Thanks Bill ... this looks like it will do the trick (although I must admit that I am surprised to see the domain as part of the syntax). I'll test it out. As for the deployment strategy ... some of the machines are 6+ years old ... the strategies have changed over time and we have a...

We would like to force a standardized password for the Local\Administrator account on all machines in an AD domain. Is there a policy (or registry hack) that will do this? Alternatively, is there any way to force the creation of a local account through policy (or other global application...

Bill, I have not seen a Linksys capable of making reservations in its DHCP pool and, even if his can, Utara did not mention taking this step. Without a reservation he runs the risk of duplicate IP addresses ... this is what concerns me. Oz