Installing Network Printer with a Script
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | Author: Mike

Printers are a common problem when it comes to writing scripts for them. Most of use know the NET USE command to map a printer but did you notice that it does not display in Printers and Faxes after you have used the NET USE command. It has been mapped and you can print to LPTx and have it print out but the printer is not listed for Windows use.

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Formatting a USB Drive Using Ubuntu
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 | Author: Mike

Ubuntu is a very powerful Linux Operating System as many of you know who read my blogs and articles that I am a big Linux user and I try to do everything in Linux before I would ever break down and do it in Windows. Well here is some information I thought you might find interesting about formatting a USB drive within Ubuntu.

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Viruses Can Affect All Computers
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | Author: Mike

Ok so I want to set the record straight once and for all about all these advertisments stating that MAC does not get viruses. I personally have absolutly nothing against MAC I think they make a great computer. I am a Windows and Linux user so I am no going to show bias here and I will even include in my statement that Linux is not immuned to viruses as well. People it is all about the numbers here and what make more sense for the person writing the virus or malware as it is more commonly referred to know.

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CSS Positioning
Saturday, January 02nd, 2010 | Author: Mike

So this is a topic where a lot of people have many different opinions on the best way to do CSS positioning and so give you a little perspective as to how frustrating it can be. I saw an pie graph the other day that showed a layout of a Web Designers time spent on a web site and about 1/5 was “Time spent trying to get CSS position to work, then giving up and using tables” and this is such a true statement. I can’t tell you how many times that has happened to me. But by using tables you are flexible in your layout but not as flexible as using CSS positioning. The major benefit of using CSS is if you want to change the look you don’t have to change every page, just the CSS.

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Adding a Local Printer with the Run As Command
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | Author: Mike

One common problem I seem to find is that I would like to do an administrative task on a users workstation but I don’t want to log them out. Well I recenlty came across this problem when installing a local printer on a users workstation. With normal user rights you can only install a Network printer.

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New MikeNet PC Content Management Software
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Aside from being a Network Administrator, I absolutly love doing websites and I have my own little web site design business on the side. Due to possible ethical conflicts I am not going to list the company name here but if you Google I am sure you will find it.

With all that being said I also love creating Web Applications to make people’s life a little easier. I am currently working an Content Management System for web pages that is easy to install and easy to use. I am hoping to be done with this project in the next week or so since I am going to lock my self in my office until I can get it done. I am looking for some Beta testers that would be willing to try my CMS for me and in return you will receive a subscription to my newsletter along with a free copy of the full finished version of the CMS for your personal use.

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Windows update error 80072EFD
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author: Mike

So I was called in over the holiday for a Windows Server 2008 update error that a client was receiving when they attempted to update their server. This error is very well documented by Microsoft and there are alot and I do mean alot of things that can cause this error. Well when I started troubleshooting this server it had not been updated since September 2009 which is quite a while to go without any critical updates to a very important server. So this article will talk about trouble shooting this error on a Windows 2008 server incase you ever run into this problem.

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Holiday Season
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Hey there everyone, sorry I havn’t posted in a while but as I am sure you all know the holiday seasons are very busy and mine was no different. I will be posting a few articles this week cause I have a few interesting bits of information that I run up on over the holiday season. A techs work never takes a holiday but that is the nature of the business.

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Modifying Windows Firewall Through Command Prompt
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Windows is all GUI now and very little command line any more, well believe it or not command line is still a very powerful tool that can change a lot of items within Windows. Here we will talk about changing Windows Firewall through a command line. The Windows XP firewall is a very basic firewall that protects users from some of the attacks that come across the Internet.

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Building your own Web Server
Monday, December 14th, 2009 | Author: Mike

Creating web sites is fun and very easy to do just check out my previous articles on creating a web site. But to publish your web site you have to have either free web hosting, purchased web hosting or your own web hosting. Here we will discuss setting up your own web hosting server from home and the ups and down of doing so. There are also a few things that you should be aware of when you setup your own web server.

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