Free Exchange Monitor

Monitor your exhange server from your workstation.. for free!

• Monitors essential services
  
• Mail queues
  
• CPU Usage
  
• Hard drive space

Download Here (freeware)

The simple (and geeky) way to create local accounts & Groups

Create Local User

Open CMD

net user (username) (password) /add

Enter

To create Local Group

Open CMD

net local group (groupname) /add

Enter

Its as simple at that!

TIP: gpresult command

Quick tip:

From the command console, run:

gpresult

This willl show you:

• All of the policies appied to the computer
• Groups the computer is in
• Groups the current user is in
• The last time gp was updated

Give it a go!

XP power managment - Save ££££ (or $$$$$)

Vista (booo) and 7 have built in gpos for centralised power managment, yet XP doesn't.

Save technicans time and the power bill by using Energy Stars free GPOs for Windows XP.

Get them here and start saving today/tonight!

Taking control over processes

I've often wanted to know what is taking up a load of memory or CPU on a slooow pc.. and have found the windows process manager a limited.. for example.. what is svhost.exe actually executing?!

But fear not...

Process Explorer v12 is here. 

Firstly, it is 110% freeware.

Secondly, you canexpand processes in a "tree" like fashion to see whats actually going on with the PC in question.

Thirdly, check it out, for free, here (1.66mb)

Joining a client to the domain.. without being connected to it?!

A new feature for Server 2008 R2 DCs & Windows 7 clients is Offline Domain Join.

The computer object is created on the DC, stored in meta data, and then sent to the client. Then the client computer can join the domain witht he meta data, even if no active connection to the DC.

To get you started, used the command Djoin.exe /? on the DC.

I have yet to think of a real life situation of when this would be useful... but anyway.. im sure it will come in useful for someone!

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IE 9 (boo) beta available to download

The IE 9 beta is available to download here:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

One important point to note... i'ts not compatible with Windows XP - Only Vista ,7 and WS2008

HP Prolient DL380 G6 - Randomly rebooting?!

Check out this beauty: (For specs click here)

I've been really impressed with this HP.. until it occasionally started to "randomly" reboot!

After much reasearch a fix from HP is aviaible here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c019555034

It looks like an issue with Programmable Logic Device was to blamem and only affecting those shipped before 01/09/2010. 

It requires a cold reboot but apart from that it has fixed the issue.