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The CTO's year 2007 in review for myITforum.com

rcrumbaker — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:06:39 GMT

WOW, what a year myITforum, Inc. had in 2007.

First we (Rod Trent, Megan Trent, and myself) want to wish you a safe and successful 2008.

Now for "The Year in Review" for 2007.

First, we had a booth at MMS 2007! WOW, that was an exciting event. The mad rush to get the party button was a site to see and one I hope gets out done each and every year. A very special thanks to Martin Dey and his group at Microsoft at for helping us with MMS 2007!! It was a VERY successful time for myITforum. We meet some new faces. Got to know the Intellinet folks (booth next to us) really well and made some great friendships along the way.

The buttons were gone in a few minutes...literally. So, if you are planning on going to MMS 2008 and want to ensure you get a button see this post by Rod so you can get your button early.

Our "Blogger of year" just for the sheer number of posts he has made throughout the year is Don Hite. He has posted 1192 blogs since he started blogging in 2006. Amazing!! Thank you Don for your wonderful work with a keyboard!! Hopefully others have found as much value out of your blog and articles as I have!

We have also gotten some new bloggers that have joined the team, including but not limited to Gwen Zierdt who has blogged about Microsoft System Center Essentials more than anyone...on the whole internet! Seriously...do a search. You won't find anyone that has blogged more than Gwen!!

We've added new features to the site - myITforum.com TV & Radio, SWAG giveaways, and Wiki just to name a few...plus we are on the eve of rolling out the new myITforum v2 interface along with some other new stuff next year.

The site has been booming with recorded breaking number of page views each day after day. Here are just some of the stats that Rod posted in the December 19th Newsletter. Our monthly bandwidth has been growing each and every month.

Total Number of myITforum.com Columnists: 215

New Articles for 2007: 1,470

Total Number of myITforum.com Bloggers: 120

New Blog Posts for 2007: 5,728

Total Number of Registered Users: 25,400

New Forum Posts for 2007: 21,816 (compare this number to the number of people who visit per day, 47,000 — we have a lot of visitors who never register for a site account)

New myITforum.com TV videos and PodCasts for 2007: 560

New Site Uploads for 2007: 102

Total Number of Newsletter Subscribers: 16,268

New Newsletters Delivered for 2007: 151

Total Number of email discussion lists: 36

New email discussion list posts for 2007: 89,122

New Wiki Pages for 2007: 210

New FAQ items for 2007: 272

New Images added to the Image Gallery for 2007: 354

New Polls posted for 2007: 37

New Industry News posted for 2007: 653

Total dollars in donations for 2007: $2,460

All these stats continue to grow day by day and hour by hour!

I know that I have missed so many things that went on this year...but the main focus should be on YOU...each and everyone of YOU that participate on myITforum.com is the reason we are so successful! Without YOU myITforum.com would just be another space on the internet.

We do depend on you, not only for content...but for donations. So, please donate!

One other group I would like to recognize is our SPONSORS of the site! These companies keep support myITforum is numerous ways that should not go unnoticed! Thank you!

Lastly, I personally want to thank the myITforum Steering committee and the myITforum Community Council!

So, what is in store of myITforum.com in 2008??

Well...keep an eye on the site and email lists!

We WILL be back at MMS 2008 with a booth...so stop by and visit.

We WILL be releasing myITforum.com v2, a completely new web interface for myITforum.com

We WILL be continuing to keep abreast with Technology and offering blogs, forums, email lists, WIKIs, and etc. so you can ensure you get the support you need.

We WILL continue to revamp the site and adding new features.

See you at MMS 2008!!

SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference: Systems Management Server 2003

rcrumbaker — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:21:00 GMT

It's been officially released.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471749508/102-5133764-7585703

Rename Users within AD by script

rcrumbaker — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:25:00 GMT

Originally posted on myITforum.com as an article - http://www.myitforum.com/articles/32/view.asp?id=9176

I used the tool ADMT from Microsoft that allows you to move users from NT 4.0 Domain to an Active Directory Domain.

Once I got the users migrated over, I noticed the User's Name was the same as the login username.

I like having my AD Users Name by their full name, so I searched for a script that would do such a think.

I found the following script and added a few tweaks to it...

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Const ForAppending = 8

Dim oWshShell 'Windows shell script
Dim objFSO 'Scripting File System
Dim objFile 'Open text file
Dim objConnection 'ADO conection
Dim objCommand 'ADO command
Dim objRecordSet 'Object to hold attributes from AD
Dim objUser 'AD User Account
Dim strUser 'AD User Account distinguished name
Dim strDN 'AD User account Display name attribute
Dim strON 'AD User account Name attribute
Dim sPath
Dim strNewPath
Dim newobj
Dim Cont

Set oWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile _
("C:\Accounts.log",ForAppending,True)
objFile.WriteBlankLines(1)
objFile.WriteLine "=========================================================="
objFile.WriteLine "Log opened at " & Now
objFile.WriteBlankLines(1)
sPath = "OU=xxxx,OU=xxxxxx,DC=xxxxx,DC=xxx"
objFile.WriteLine "Processing " & sPath
objFile.WriteBlankLines(1)

objCommand.CommandText = _
"Select Name, DisplayName, distinguishedName from 'LDAP://" & sPath & "'" _
& " where objectClass='user'"
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
objCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute

If objRecordSet.EOF = False Then
objRecordSet.MoveFirst

Do While objRecordSet.EOF = False
strDN = objRecordSet.Fields("DisplayName").Value
strON = objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
strUser = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value

If strDN = strON then

objFile.WriteLine "Current and target name are the same for " & strON
ObjFile.WriteBlankLines (1)
Else

If strDN <> "" Then
objFile.WriteLine "New Name for " & strON & " will be " & strDN

strNewPath = "CN="& strDN

Set cont = GetObject("LDAP://" & sPath)

Set newobj = cont.MoveHere("LDAP://" & strUser, strNewPath)

If Err.Number <> 0 Then WScript.Echo Err.Number & Err.Description
Set objUser = nothing
Set cont = nothing
Set newobj = nothing
ObjFile.WriteBlankLines (1)
Else
objFile.WriteLine "Display name value has not been set for " & strON & ". Name cannot be changed."
ObjFile.WriteBlankLines (1)
End If

End If
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
Else

End If
objFile.WriteLine "=========================================================="
objFile.WriteLine "End of user processing."
objFile.WriteLine "=========================================================="
objFile.WriteLine "Log file closed at " & Now
objFile.WriteBlankLines(2)
objFile.Close
wscript.echo "Done."
oWshShell.run "notepad.exe C:\Accounts.log", 7, True

'***************************************************************************************

Feel free to contact me at rcrumbaker@myitforum.com with any questions relating to this article.
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With Clarence Washington’s scripting site closing...now what?

rcrumbaker — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:44:00 GMT

With Clarence Washington’s scripting site closing where are you going to go for all the scripts?

Well...myITforum.com, Inc. has the answer...

It's the myITforum.com, Inc. Code Repository.

The Code Repository and all the Code Packs have a lot, if not all of the scripts that were on Clarence Washington's scripting site.

The Code Repository has been around for a long time, but it still being used and downloaded everyday!

So, you want to grab some of those awesome script from Clarence Washington's site...find them in the Code Repository!

SMS 2003 Web Remote Tools Update

rcrumbaker — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:04:00 GMT

You can download it from the attached.

Then change line 14-17 in the machrest.asp page which looks like:

quote:

sub subFilter
'You will need to edit the following line to fit your environment. SMSServerFQDN is your FQDN of your SMS Server Name. SMSServer.DomainName.Domain.com
window.open "//SMSServerFQDN/smsremote/FilterSample.asp?ReportID=1", "filter","resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,width=300,height=350,top=100,left=100"
end sub

To this:

sub subFilter
parent.frames.output.location.href "//SMSServername/smsremote/Filter.asp"
end sub

Rename the attached file to Filter.asp, edit the lines for your environment

New Filter.asp page found ->http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/11192filter.zip