Found a useful feature in Windows XP the other week when stuffing around with print-mapping scripts. Instead of using the old con2prt feature to connect to printers, you can use Windows’ inbuilt printing APIs to map printers, add new drivers from INF files, remove printer mappings, remove drivers, and much more.
The main reason I like this over the old con2prt.exe is that you can remove individual mappings to printers - you don’t have to remove all the mapped printers at once with a ‘con2prt /f’ if you don’t want to.
Continue reading ‘Windows XP Print-Mapping Automation’
When looking for a solution on how to synchronise our Exchange GALs between two seperate forests, I came across this Microsoft feature pack - which is freely available to download from their website.
What IIFP does according to Microsoft: “Identity Integration Feature Pack 1a for Microsoft® Windows Serverâ„¢ Active Directory® manages identities and coordinates user details across Microsoft Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 2003 implementations. ”
The download link:
IIFP Download
There’s only one catch: you need an enterprise version of Windows 2003 Server to be able to install the feature pack. A little birdie tells me that if you use Orca from the Windows 2003 Server SDK, you can modify the installation requirements to get it working on a non-enterprise version of Windows 2003 Server.
Here’s a tutorial from MSExchange.org on GAL synchronisation:
http://www.msexchange.org/pages/article_p.asp?id=668
I couldn’t end up getting it to work because of domain naming issues between the two domains (one is named as a parent of the other one without actually being the AD parent domain), but it looks like it could be a very useful tool.
Well, my first post….
My intention for this blog is to store any useful information that i discover, as well as how-to guides for things that i’ve done. That way it can be of benefit to others eventually, and useful for my own reference.
Enjoy,
Daniel
