Quickly moving a user’s windows profile to new hardware

Ever have someone get new hardware, run your setup, then spend an inordinate amount of time copying their windows profile to the new machine, piece by piece? Here’s how to do it quickly and cleanly, with a minimum amount of effort (the goal of every sysadmin…)

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AD and Mac OS X – one big happy family

So I’m rebuilding my test lab in preparation for our rollout of Mac OS X 10.3.4 and the synchronized moving of authentication from 2 sources (Active Directory and Open Directory) to one (Active Directory). I thought my fellow co-workers would like some notes (as well as you, gentle reader) on how to accomplish the following

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Lockergnome and ass… (well, not anymore…)

Well instead of sending a little note saying, “hey, do you by chance have an ad-blocker running?” and pointing out my mistake, Chris Pirillo made a (surprise!) sarcastic remark… I don’t even remember the last time I visited a site that looked like ass because I blocked the ads on their page. Oh Well. For those of you who use Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, or any other browser you can use a custom stylesheet with, check out userContent.css if you want to take control of your browsing experience.

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