Good news to those admins who need to migrate domain profiles to the new domain. This post is a fallback if Active Directory Migration Tool does not do its magic properly or when the PDC (Primary Domain Controller) is nearing its death or simply migrating loc profile to domain.

I’ve stumbled upon ForensiT that addresses Domain Migration, Desktop Management and Move Computer. It’s what they call Migrate. Manage. Move.

The tool I used was User Profile Wizard 3.0 wherein it used SetACL (just like how we did). But this lessens all the pain and trouble and even time.

Here are the screenshots:

And another good news, it’s a freeware!!

Earlier, I had to unearth the printouts of my previous researches cause I needed to recall the procedure we did way way back concerning Windows Active Directory. Aside from that, I looked for my copy of SetACL (Windows permission management).

SetACL, by the way, is really effective on handling files, folders and subfolders even they are way down below a directory tree. We used this instead of simply manipulating folder properties cause for some strange reason, objects that are buried deep were not assigned with proper ownership. Actually, no ownership at all.

That’s all for now.

And oh, it’s opensource. hehe

In a LAN, one way of identifying a computer, when all you have is an IP address, is by using nbtstat command.

Simply launch command prompt and type:

C:> nbstat -a 192.168.1.1

It will return the computer’s DNS and mac address.

The Corporate world is beginning to search for answers regarding a threatening news about Conficker, Kido, Downadup Worm that is infiltrating millions of Windows systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft released updates and patches to combat this issue. It is highly recommended to have updated systems and firewalls in order to prevent this from jeopardizing a business.

On the other hand, fear not my fellow Linux users. We are, somewhat, safe since Linux systems don’t have *.exe files in them that are used by this kind of threat.

And yet, good luck to all our Systems Administrators who might spend sleepless nights on restoring Windows Servers (if there are any) and to Technical Support Teams for clearing up Windows desktop computers that are infected and updating those that are yet to be.

Like always, there’s an easier way to disconnect all network connections in a Windows Desktop instead of doing it one by one.

Use the net use command.

To list all network connections, type in command prompt:

net use

If you want to delete all these, type in:

net use * /d

and you will be asked for confirmation.

To delete a specific connection, type in:

net use \\folder-name /d

or

net use E: /d

where E: is a network drive.