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Sometimes we may want to remove a few unwanted items from “New” menu or we may want to add a few necessary items to “New” menu which are not present. So here is how you can add / remove items to / from “New” menu (Thanks to AskVG.com for this info!)

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Try running Driftnet on a machine in public view and list the IP addresses of the hosts.

Inspired by EtherPEG, Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic. You can get it here!

Keeping with some of the AD commands I have added recently I have a couple more for ya. You can use rsop.msc (Resultant Set Of Policy) or GPresult to find out what policies are actually applied to the machine you are on.

With the new Terminal Services client version 6 you can use multiple monitors but it doesn’t handle it very well. This is where a great utility called Splitview comes in. It supports multiple monitors as well as wide-screens with remote desktop. Give it a try!

Update - Here is a link to the Microsoft Technet site regarding RDP and multi-monitor setup.

Here is a link to a Microsoft page containing a list of ports Windows and it’s services use. Very Handy.

Did you think the Y2K bugs were done? Well they’re not! The next is the Y2K38 which begins on January 19th 2008 when 30 yr loan and other calculations will have problems. Read more about it here on Wikipedia.

FSMO Roles
ntdsutilroles Connections "Connect to server %logonserver%" Quit "selectOperation Target" "List roles for conn server" Quit Quit Quit
[JDH: This is really a series of steps, not a single command
expression]
Domain Controllers
Nltest /dclist:%userdnsdomain%
Domain Controller IP Configuration
for /f %i in (’dsquery server -domain %userdnsdomain% -o rdn’) do psexec \\%i ipconfig /all
Stale computer accounts
dsquery computer domainroot -stalepwd 180 -limit 0
Stale user accounts
dsquery user domainroot -stalepwd 180 -limit 0
Disabled user accounts
dsquery user domainroot -disabled -limit 0
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