When you right-click any shortcut, and select Pin to Taskbar a new shortcut is pinned in the Windows taskbar. The problem with this is the large amount of space between those shortcuts. There’s no way to actually modify that space, but there is a work around that can eliminate the extra space.
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Changing the Spacing Between Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar
September 4th, 2011Starting my new job at Dell Inc.
August 8th, 2011Today marks the start of my new career with Dell as a Systems Integration Sr. Advisor.
Find out when a users password expires.
May 24th, 2011Slowly but surely I’m upgrading our Server 2003 DC’s to server 2008. When the DC that the I.T. department was authenticating against was Server 2003, we used the Acctinfo.dll module from the Windows 2003 Resource Kit. This module gave us an Additional Account Info tab on the Users Object that displayed, among other things, when their password expires or expired. Unfortunately, there is no such module available for Server 2008, so I turned to PowerShell to get the job done. I found a PowerShell script written by M. Ali over on MSDN that does exactly what we needed.
Windows 7 Pumpkin Carving
October 26th, 2009Just to be a geek and also to see my wife roll her eyes. I decided to carve a pumpkin to help announce the release of Windows 7.
Expanding a RAID5 array without losing data
September 15th, 2009One of my remote offices was getting a little low on drive space on their data partition, so it was time to upgrade the existing drives to large capacity drives. This particular server is a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with six 146GB SCSI drives and a PERC 5/i integrated controller. Drives 0 & 1 are configured RAID0 for the system partition and drives 2-5 are configured RAID5 for the data partition. Six internal drives are all the server is capable of, so I have no empty slots for additional drives to expand the RAID5. So replacing the 146GB drives with 300GB drives is the route I took to add additional space to the array. Here are the steps:
