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Couple tools that I've recently discovered that were useful by steve schofield

I've been doing some proof of concept recently trying a few different tools. Vmware 2.0 http://vmware.com/products/server/ Allows me to run 64 bit guest OS's on my 64 bit host machine. My host machine doesn't support Hyper-V. It's running Windows Server...
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IIS - Web platform installer v1 has been released by steve schofield

Overview The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer...
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IIS *international* flavor by steve schofield

I wrote an article recently on how to setup AD and IIS 7.0 web-farms. Here is a website I presume is in China promoting IIS 7.0. IIS is really taking off internationally! http://blog.csdn.net/xhinker/archive/2008/12/26/3615805.aspx Check it out. The poster...
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IIS 6 FTP service and Active Directory logins by steve schofield

Thought I would pass this along. The IIS 6 FTP Service's DefaultLogonDomain metabase property isn't available in MMC ( http://support.microsoft.com/?id=184319 ). The default is the local machine name. If you are using AD users, this is a way to cutdown...
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List Local administrators on a machine using Powershell, ADSI by steve schofield

I need to audit our local administrators group. I wanted to convert my script to Powershell that I've used for years. I found the magic post here that shows the core syntax. I wouldn't have guessed the syntax in a dozen years. Here is the VBScript. Set...
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First usergroup meeting and win a Sharepoint 2007 Best practices book by steve schofield

I attended a Sharepoint user group meeting on Tuesday 1/6 ( www.wmspug.org ). Becky Bertram presented a interesting topic I knew nothing about. (I'm a Sharepoint newbie). Here is a link to her site. www.beckybertram.com The cool thing they had some decent...
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Writing out computer list retrieved from Active Directory and output to a text file using Add-Content by steve schofield

Hope this helps someone, it took me a bit to get the syntax down and understand why. (Yes, I'm still a PoSh newbie) I discovered when I was trying to write out a computer list retrieved from Active Directory, the output in the file was System.DirectoryServices...
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Powershell 1.0 script to update Active Directory FTP User isolation attributes (msIIS-FTPDir, msIIS-FTPRoot) by steve schofield

I recently posted an article how to setup FTP User Isolation and Active Directory together. Here is the article . In the post, I mentioned you'll need to engage your AD administrator to update the two attributes. Here is a script using Powershell 1.0...
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Microsoft hosting guidance by steve schofield

There was a post on http://forums.iis.net about hosting. Here is a link For future reference. http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/solutions/windowsserverhostingguidance.mspx Cheers, Steve
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