Changing the default User and Computer OU

I like to keep my "Real" Users in a separate folder away from all the other system accounts. This ensures that only valid accounts are displayed if you use LDAP lookups for various applications (e.g. a network scanner)


Windows 2003 introduced a couple of new commands that allow you to change the default location:


Users:


   ReDirUsr "OU=RealUsers,DC=domain,DC=com"


Computers:


   ReDirCmp "OU=RealComputers,DC=domain,DC=com"


You need to run this on a Domain Controller, and you need the AD to be in Windows 2003 mode as a minimum.


As you want to ensure the path to the new directory is correct, I recommend Softerra LDAP browser (it's free) which allows you to connect to the AD with LDAP and copy object locations.


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0x8007010b errors in Task Scheduler

Windows 7 and 2008 introduced a new, more comprehensive Task Scheduler.


While the "Create Task" button provides you with every option available, I could not run any tasks without the  0x8007010b error message.


It turns out that this error is caused by the "quotes" in the Start in field. The "Program/script" field needs quotes (if there is a space in the path to the file, but all quotes must be stripped from the "Start in (optional)" field.


It's counter-intuitive, but that's the way Microsoft wrote it.

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F5 URL and URI Variables

iRules are a fantastic feature of the F5.
Sometimes you need to do operations based upon the actual URL which has been typed and this page should give you a handy lookup guide to show which variables give up which parts of the URL.
Example URL: http://example.com/directory1/directory2/directory3/filename.html?
argument1=value1&argument2=value2&argument3=value3

Variable	Description	Example
[HTTP::host]	hostname	example.com
[HTTP::uri]	Everything after the hostname	example.com/directory1/directory2/directory3/filename.html ?argument1=value1&argument2=value2&argument3=value3
[HTTP::path]	the directory path and file name	/directory1/directory2/directory3/filename.html
[HTTP::query]	everything after the ?	argument1=value1&argument2=value2&argument3=value3
[URI::path [HTTP::uri] depth]	number of directories	value of 3
[URI::path [HTTP::uri] 1 1]	directory 1	directory1
[URI::path [HTTP::uri] 2 2]	directory 2	directory2
[URI::path [HTTP::uri] 3 3]	directory 3	directory3
[URI::query [HTTP::uri] "argument1"]	argument 1	value1
[URI::query [HTTP::uri] "argument2"]	argument 2	value2
[URI::query [HTTP::uri] "argument3"]	argument 3	value3
[URI::basename [HTTP::uri]]	file name	filename.html

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