At work a colleague of mine was looking to modify printer permissions on a Server 2008 R2 terminal server using PowerShell. And to be honest, it was more difficult to do than I had expected.
As most people working with Microsoft products, I was not able to attend the Microsoft Management Summit 2013 unfortunately.
These sessions have been recorded though and are available now at Channel 9 and a great overview of sessions can be found here. This means you can watch them wherever and whenever it is convenient for you.
Some time ago I took the EMC E20-001 Information Storage and Management (ISM) exam. As a preparation I used the available book and summarized it.
Even though there are newer updated versions of ISM, I think the summary will still be useful for those who quickly want to get more aquinted with information and storage basics.
You can find the summary here. I hope you enjoy it.
Other options to manage your own (personal) favourite web site links include:
Using the built-in synchronisation with browsers like Firefox or Google Chome.
Create and use a personalized start page like by example Netvibes and Protopage. These also provide options to include other resources like by example RSS feeds, weather predictions, etc. I am currently using iGoogle, but that will cease to function Q4 2013 unfortunately.
During the creation of my own list I came across kadaza.com and kadaza.nl, which also contains a great collection of categorized web sites. You can choose the main category on the left hand side after which you can further drill down by choosing subcategories on the right side.
I hope it is useful to you and should you have some great sites I’ve missed, please mention them in the comments section.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve created your fair share of user names and passwords over the years and it is likely that many more will be added in the future as well. To complicate things even more, you are probably using multiple different user names and passwords because of different requirements. Possible reasons:
Username (because your desired username might not meet the requirements or might already be in use. Or because your -email is used as your username)
Minimum number of characters.
Maximum number of characters.
(Specific) special characters required.
(Specific) special characters not allowed.
x number of upper case characters
x number of lower case characters
x number of digits.
x number of special characters.
Password needs to be changed every x days.
Because of the large number of accounts (I have about 200-300 accounts) it is impossible to remember them all. Even though it might be tempting to use (a couple of) the same username and password combinations for logging on, this is not recommended because it is a security risk. When one of the places where you use a specific user/password combination is compromised, all other places where you use this same combination are at risk too. In this post I will try to describe some challenges and what you can do about it.
Digital photos provide benefits over old photos because you can add information about the photo and filter/search based on it. This can be anything you want. You could by example add information about:
The year, month, day the photo was taken.
The location the photo was taken using the name and/or GPS coordinates (some cameras and smartphones already add this information automatically).
The event the photo was taken.
The persons in the photo.
Objects in the photo like by example car, plane, slide, ball, hat, etc.
It is important to realize that this information you’ve added will be saved to your photo so that other applications or online photo services (by example Flickr) can use it. These tags will also help find photos when you search in Windows even though the file name does not contain the keyword you used in the search.
From my experience however, most people simply copy the files to a folder that contains the date, location and event. By example they use a folder called “2012-09-07 Vacation Paris”. This is often because they don’t know that they can use tags and even if they do, they don’t know how to do it.
In this blog post I will try and explain how to add information to photos using Picasa, because it is free and relatively easy to use.
How to add tags to your digital photos using Picasa
To add tags to your digital photos using Picasa, basically you need to perform the following steps:
Select the picture(s) you want to tag (use CTRL + left mouse click to select multiple photos simultaneously or CTRL + A to select all photos).
Enable the views to add tags by either:
-Going to the top of the screen and choosing “View” and then
-Going to the bottom right and choosing the icon for “show/hide places panel” or “show/hide tags panel”
Add tags / places (optionally configure quick tags to have easy access to often used tags).
In the video below I’m demonstrating this in a couple of minutes to give you a better idea of how it works:
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