Archive for March, 2009

Microsoft Certified Master – Active Directory pre-reading

If you’re lucky enough (or wealthy enough) to be going to the Microsoft Certified Master course, there is a considerable amount of pre-reading that you’ll need to get through.  I recently found the list: Right click, save as http://www.boreditguy.com/blog/MCM_Windows2008-Directory_Pre-reading_v5.pdf There are several of those documents I’ll be going through and hopefully one day I’ll get [...]

How to tell which Domain Controller a user or computer is logged into

I get asked this one pretty frequently so I thought it was worth a post.  Just open a command prompt and run this command: set logonserver Also just using the “set” command on windows can produce some useful information. Tweet

Manage Windows machines with remote Windows shell on Ubuntu Linux with winexe

***Updated instructions for Jaunty here http://boreditguy.com/blog/?p=274 *** I’ve always been a big advocate for psexec and running commands remotely on Windows servers.  The problem is that I outright refuse to run Windows as my workstation and half the time I’m too lazy to start a VM to do a lot of things.  The other downfall [...]

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