• Scripting, Technology

    Posted on January 9th, 2009

    Written by Dan Kregor

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    Setting Services to Automatic and starting them on multiple servers

    Setting Services to Automatic and starting them on multiple servers

    A client recently had a requirement to make a change to the Remote Registry service on a large number of servers. They had originally set the service to disabled for security reasons, but now had needed the service set to Automatic and have it started. Doing this manually was not an option (100+ servers) and I happened to have a script handy that would do the job. [Read more...]

  • Scripting, Technology

    Posted on September 21st, 2007

    Written by Dan Kregor

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    AD Scripting: How to resolve a SID to a username

    We recently undertook an upgrade of an NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2003 Active Directory. During the process the Domain Trust was broken and we ended up with a number of orphaned accounts and FSP’s (Foreign Security Principles).
    As such, we had a requirement to resolve some of these FSP’s that only had a SID.
    Enter the [...]