March 2010 Archives

10 november 1493. Einsiedeln, Zwitserland. Zon in Schorpioen. Eerst is er het bos en in het bos de open plek en op de open plek de hut en in de hut de moeder en in de moeder het kind en in het kind de berg.

© 1997 Jeanette Winterson
ISBN 90 254 2361 2
D/1997/0108/515
NUGI 301
CIP
Uitgeverij Contact Amsterdam/Antwerpen

I caught myself staring at the bookshelves and noticed a lot of books I didn't remember being there or books I completely forgot about. So I decided to start to read them all, beginning at the top left and working my way down to the lower right corner, skipping languages I don't understand like French and skipping books that are too heavy to drag along on the bus.

For memories sake I'll create a backlog here, otherwise I'll be back staring at the same bookshelves in a year or so.

Massa's foto's. Mijn vader te paard. Met kolbak.Mijn vader werkend op een boerderij. Zonder kolbak. Hij spoelt melkbussen. Hij houdt de zwengel van een waterpomp in zijn hand. Water gutst in een kan. Hij draagt een werkbroek die tot aan zijn oksels is opgesjord. En een interlokje met mouwtjes.

1ste druk 1968 (Uitg. Meulenhoff - Amsterdam)
2de druk 1981
ISBN 90 6280 623 6
© Ton van Reen
CZ Uitgeverij Corrie Zelen b.v., Maasbree

I received a request to create a deployment for the full blown 10 GB installation of the Design Suite Premium CS4 and even though there are a lot of complains about the Adobe CS4 Deployment Toolkit I decided to use it nevertheless for creating this deployment. Main reason is that I didn't need to leave out options or features of the installation (except the Adobe Media Player and Acrobat.com).

I created a page with the details about the deployment configuration here.

This script alters the emplids on all userobjects in AD in one run. Of course, the field employeeID needs to hold data before you can alter it.

In the script below, a "00" is put in front of the emplids of existing employees if the emplid has 4 characters. For other employees (like students, temps etc) the first character (in this case an "E") is replaced by "02". It also does an export to txt before and after the emplids are edited so you know what has changed.

Depending on the number of user objects in your AD this script could run for a while.

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection

    Set fs = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set StartFile = fs.CreateTextFile ("c:\temp\StartFile.txt")
    Set EndFile = fs.CreateTextFile ("c:\temp\EndFile.txt")

objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE 

objCommand.CommandText = _
    "SELECT ADsPath FROM 'LDAP://OU=Users,DC=Domain,DC=local' WHERE objectCategory='user'"  
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute

objRecordSet.MoveFirst

Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
    strPath = objRecordSet.Fields("ADsPath").Value
    Set objUser = GetObject(strPath)
    'Create a backup txt before updating userdata
    StartFile.Write objUser.employeeID & ";" & objUser.samAccountName & ";" & objUser.FullName & ";" & objUser.department
    StartFile.WriteLine ""
    strEmplId = objUser.employeeID
    If Left(objUser.employeeID,1)="E" Then
		strNewEmplId = Replace(strEmplId,"E","02")
		objUser.Put "employeeID", strNewEmplId
		objUser.SetInfo
	Else
		If Len(strEmplId) = 4 Then
			objUser.Put "employeeID", "00" + objUser.employeeID
			objUser.SetInfo
		Else
			'Do Nothing
		End If
End If
	'Create a control txt after updating userdata
    EndFile.Write objUser.employeeID & ";" & objUser.samAccountName & ";" & objUser.FullName & ";" & objUser.department
    EndFile.WriteLine ""
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop

I am in the process of setting up a lab environment with AD 2008 and SCCM 2007 SP2 R2 using VmWare Workstation 7 on a laptop. At this point all the basics are installed and running, now it is time for serious playtime with App-V and OS Deployment to some clients.

I am writing a how-to during the process, which you can read here. It's a work in progress and describes the steps I've taken so far and will be updated as it goes on.

This is a homemade 12 x CD-R (!) compilation of punk bands fronted by female vocalists from 1977 to 1989. You may notice that some of the bands didn't have a steady female vocalist (The Lewd, etc.) but he still included songs that were sung by another member of the band. This is as international as it gets, with stuff ranging from world famous Blondie or Crass to the most obscure Eastern European cassette compilation veterans.

Kängnäve: A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89. See also part 2 & 3