It's been a long time since I've been using GCstar, (the OpenSource Best Collection Manager Software there is), and the Guy behind it has recently released major updates.

Besides an Android Application to view Collections on the Road (might be usefull when shopping), there is a new feature "statistics" in GCstar.

Thought I should share statistics of my Video Games Collection with the rest of the World , here you go :

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:24 )

Mass Import Users with individual passwords in Active Directory

I looked for a nice way to bulk import hundreds of users in one of our Active Directory's, without hassling with ldifs, csvde's and base64 encoded passwords.

What you need :

Domain Admin Account on AD server
CSV-like file (delimiter ";"), first column username, second column password (here the file is named logins.dat)
The Name of the OU which will be containing your new users (in our example the OU is called Name-of-OU)

What you'll get

A simple way to import hundreds or thousands of users, without knowledge of ldifde and preparing the proper password file

How ?

On the AD server, open a DOS Prompt with admin rights ("right click-> run as Administrator", then issue this command :

FOR /F "tokens=1,2* delims=; " %i in (logins.dat) do dsadd user "CN=%i,OU=NAME-of-OU,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL" -samid %i -pwd %j

where %i = username (1st column in our CSV-like file called logins.dat)
and %j = password (2nd column in our CSV-like file called logins.dat)


Be sure that the specified Passwords meet the minimum required complexity, or temporarily disable that annoying Group Policy

After the operation completes, your OU will be populated with the imported users.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:24 )

Every last Friday in July is Sysadmin's day, so be nice to all the people who work in the background to keep your systems from failing.

As seen on XKCD.com:

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:24 )

I stumbled on a great Adnroid app recently : Appbrain (http://www.appbrain.com), it allows me to manage my Android Apps through a Web Site. They also offer some widgets, like this one (apps on my android phone)

 

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:24 )