Year of the “Slate” PC
The new Apple iPad (image from Gizmodo.com)
Is this the year of the “slate” PC, has tablet technology finally matured beyond the medical IT sector?
Well it definitely seems that way, what with Apple’s rumoured “iSlate” iPad , HP’s Slate PC, Nvidia’s Tegra Table prototype.
With all this new technology becoming available this year how is this going to affect the way we do business?
How Large Is a Petabyte? (via Gizmodo.com)
via Gizmodo.com
Need to reset a Domain Admin password in a hurry
- Boot from the Server 2008(R2) DVD
- Choose your language options, and in the bottom corner on the “Install Now” click “Repair Your Computer”
- Launch command prompt
- Go to c:\windows\system32
- Rename Utilman.exe to Utilman.exe.bak
- Copy cmd.exe to Utilman.exe
- Reboot back into Windows
- Press Windows + U at the logon screen, which at any other time would open the Accessibility Manager, but for us will open a Command Prompt
- Now you can use the following command “net user administrator Pa55word” to reset the Administrator Password
- Proceed to logon with the Domain Admin account and this new password
- You can change the password to something rememberable it if need to
- Reboot your server, and boot from them DVD again to restore the original Utilman.exe
Now you can log back into your once locked server, now although this has helped us out of a tight spot, remember that if your not the only person who has access to your server room anyone could do this, so as ever use this information wisely and use it to review your security plans, for example: use those locks on your server racks, lock doors behind you, use BIOS passwords.
Ranger 6
Well finally Ranger for Networks has released version 6 (6.0.0.30 to be precise) which introduces the long awaited support for Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit.