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How To Find Your Logon Server – Active Directory

To check the local domain controller for a computer or server simply type the following in the command prompt: echo %logonserver% What this does is print the value of the environment variable giving you the machine name of the domain controller being used.  

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Remove Lync Info from Workstation

I have run into a little issuing while using Microsoft’s Lync 2010.  It all started when I logged into a test workstation.  After my testing of this awesome product I signed out.  What I noticed was that my log-on info was still there and I was able to log into Lync.  I would like to stop this […]

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Vyatta Router Configuration Location

Some of us may have looked for this, most of us have found it. Simply change directory to /opt/vyatta/etc/config to find the Vyatta router config.boot  

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sending sms, mms, txt messages to phones with email

  Most, if not all mobile carries have “SMS Gateways” that an take in an email message and deliver them to their customer as text messages. This works also with mms messages. That seems simple, doesn’t it!  It is if you know the carrier the recipient’s phone is on, along with their phone number.  Below are a few […]

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How to remove an audio track from an mp4 video file

I recorded a mp4 video file and I would like to strip away the audio because i just don’t need it. Using ffmpeg in ubuntu made this task a very simple one. Simply run the following command: ffmpeg -i file-in.mp4 -vcodec copy -an file-out.mp4 As you see, a very quick helpful solution.  

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Exchange 2010 SP2 | Mailbox Export Request

Exchange 2010 has many improvements.  As we know when things change they do not often stay the same. In this case the method used to export exchange email boxes to PST files. Back in a previous post I went over the steps of exporting a mailbox to PST. To do this all you needed was […]