If you’ve used Windows Vista for more than 3.7 minutes, you know what UAC (User Account Control) is..

It’s the obnoxious, nagging popup window that will be your life for the next 3-5 years unless you switch back to XP in frustration, or to a better OS like… OS X, Suse, Ubuntu, or even XP.

Note: Disabling UAC will lead to a less secure system, so be warned.

Windows need your permission to annoy the crap out of you:

There’s a quick way you can enable or disable this annoying window from the command line:

Disable UAC

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Enable UAC

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

After you enable or disable UAC, you will have to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

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I had a problem for the last few weeks. I can no longer download or upload EXE, ZIP, COM, or VBS files via FTP. Recently the hosting provider has had some serious virus troubles and they have instituted a new policy. All EXE, ZIP, VBS, and COM files are blocked.

So now I have a huge collection of files that I can’t get out…short of them burning a CD and sending it to me.

I really like this provider, and I understand their trouble. It is true that most websites never have a need to provide exe files for download. To get around the problem I created an interesting solution. I like it so much I use it for many other remote sites that I manage. (Please note this will only work for 2003, XP, or Vista)

To get started open your Remote Desktop client. Click on the options button, and move over to the resources tab. See the checkbox towards the bottom that says “Disk Drives” Check it. This will tell the Remote Desktop client to share your local drives with the server you are connecting.

Now go back to the general tab and enter the name of server you want to connect….and click connect. Once you are connected go into My Computer and make sure your local drives are available…like this:

See the drives named XX on LAPTOPJS…those are drives on my local laptop. Now here is the tricky part. I hate using explorer to copy a large number of files. Why? Because most of the time it will fail half way through the copy - with no way to resume.

I wanted to use robocopy. It is a free command line utility from Microsoft in the Windows resource kit. You can download it from here

The trouble is I couldn’t get to my shared drives from the command line. You would think you could use a path like this: \\laptopjs\c to get to the C drive…but no luck with that.

Eventually I came across some obscure documentation from MS that noted you can access these drives by using the hard coded hostname \\tsclient

This actually was better than I thought, because I could then use the same script for any machine that connected to the server.

Here is what I did. I created a script that looked like this:

robocopy.exe c:\website \\tsclient\c\website_backup /e /r:0 /w:0
Run robocopy with no arguments to see all of its options

Put it into a batch file and made a shortcut on the desktop

Now I just need to RDP into the server…double click on the icon and it downloads an updated copy of the website.

Best of all - since I am using robocopy it only downloads files that have changed since the last time I ran the script.

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Did you know that Office Communications Server 2007 has RTMed on July 29th?

So what can you expect with OCS, and what is included in this release?

• Software powered VoIP: by using a smart end-point (aka a PC), OCS and Communicator 2007 allow a much richer experience than traditional VoIP systems.
• Software economics: OCS works with a broad range of devices, phones, applications from a wide range of partners.
• Voice quality: The listening and call quality offered by a pre-release version of Office Communications Server 2007 was “considerably better than that provided by [a leading provider’s] IP phones,” according to an independent benchmark study conducted by Psytechnics, a firm specialising in voice-quality research.
• Easy transition: Companies can get more value from their existing PBX systems, networks and desk phones by using Office Communications Server to add VoIP and unified communications capabilities without ripping and replacing existing investments.
• Streamlined communications: click-to-call from Outlook, Word, Sharepoint and other apps - including the ability to simply add presence and telephony/video to LOB or custom applications/websites.
• Tools that travel: It doesn’t matter if you’re in the office sitting at your desk, working from home, or sitting at a coffee shop - you still have all of your communications tools available.  In fact right now I am writing this from a hotel in Seattle.  My girlfriend in Sydney can dial my local 02 phone number and I take the call over here on my PC.  All of this without a VPN!!  As long as I have web access, then I can make and receive calls - and due to our adaptive codecs (more info below) it doesn’t matter that I am running across an unreliable unmanaged network (aka the Internet).

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2007/07/29/ocs-goes-gold.aspx

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