Sometimes your clients need to get an overview of who’s getting all the mails for the various distribution groups they’ve had you create. Sometimes they forget who’s been added or removed. I use this script to give them an up-to-date view of where the mail is going.
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Mass changing of DSNs
DSN changes are ubiquitous in any most systems that need to connect directly to a database. Although you can prevent them by aliasing your DB to a CNAME and doing the modification globally, or adding an additional IP address, that’s something you learn “for the next time”. Here’s my script on how to do this easily.
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Exchange Organization Address Extraction
This is a VBS script for Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003 to list all the non-local e-mail addresses in AD. It’s handy if you have a 3rd part spam filter and need to get a list of addresses to let through:
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.htpasswd Change Script
On a recent project the client needed a password change script for an htpasswd file, but nothing really fit the bill. I grabbed one by David A. Horner , and modified it to bit a bit more versatile.
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Bind 9.x and DNS
While some people may have some concerns about it, BIND is the de-facto standard for Internet DNS serving. Although it’s config files may look confusing at first, a little experience shows you that it is actually complex, and there’s nothing you can do about it. However, most people won’t have to deal with anything that hard to use. So here’s a little article on a quick and dirty start to Bind.