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February 2, 2011Windows Technologies

Tips to manage taskbar Windows

It’s very often the case that many users (especially Windows Admins) requires multiple applications to be running yet don’t want to actively monitor them in taskbar. Many users opt for grouping taskbar Windows to workaround that problem, however there will be atleast one window lying on the taskbar representing the grouped application windows. As many of you know that some applications comes with an option called “Minimize to tray (or) Hide when minimized” which simply avoid Window on the taskbar and yet keeps application running and provides easy option to activate the Windows whenever needed. Here are the few applications […]

February 2, 2011Active Directory

Adfind: Querying Active Directory made easy

List all AD user accounts matching a string: C:>adfind -b DC=Test,DC=com -f “(&(objectcategory=user)(name=*govardhan*))” displayname AdFind V01.42.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) April 2010 Using server: test.domain.com:389 Directory: Windows Server 2008 dn:CN=Govardhan g.,OU=TestUsers,DC=test,DC=com >displayName: Govardhan g. 1 Objects returned C:> — — List all computer (server) accounts whose operating system matching certain string: C:>adfind -b DC=Test,DC=com -f “(&(objectcategory=computer)(OperatingSystem=server*2008*r2))” operatingsystem AdFind V01.42.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) April 2010 Using server: test.domain.com:389 Directory: Windows Server 2008 dn:CN=W2K81049,CN=Computers,DC=test,DC=com >operatingSystem: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 1 Objects returned C:> List all members of a AD group: C:>adfind -b DC=Test,DC=com -f “(&(objectcategory=group)(name=*_tech))” member | cut -d”,” -f1 | cut […]