Archive | March, 2008

iPhone PC Suite

I came across this app for the iPhone, its called the iPhone PC Suite. It doesnt need to be installed it just runs from the config files etc…It can be downloaded from here. I will post more when i have had change to try it out. This is not an official apple release, this is still 3rd party software, i think it was a guy from China who has developed this.

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Dell Customer Support

Recently my brothers Dell Dimension E520 stopped working and wouldn’t power up, the amber light on the mother board came on but the power button would not work. I was going to buy a new power supply for him but they were coming in at around £40/£50. I decided to ring Dell and find out what they could do. From my previous job I had to ring Dell support quite a bit well practically everyday.

I was shocked to get straight through to someone, it was even quicker than going through the Dell Gold Support line. Anyway to cut a long story short, i was asked to do a few basic tests which i did, then i found out that the warranty had run out in December last year (2007) but they would arrange for collection of the computer and get the faulty parts changed and returned to me within 3 – 4 working days. They will also change any other parts that aren’t in full working order either. Overall really impressed with the service I got from Dell. :)

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iPhone re-installed

I have just had to reinstall my iPhone the other day as I kept getting "main script execution failed" when trying to install programs from installer.app and also when trying to uninstall a certain program, the program i tried was "PuzzelManiak" it installed and worked fine but when i came to remove it, i hit issues, it wouldn’t let me uninstall. It wasn’t just this app it was quite a few when i came to install, even after clearing the que. Not sure why this happened but a reinstall soon sorted the problem. I am now running 1.1.4 instead of 1.1.3. So least i have the latest firmware unlocked on T-Mobile and now know how to unlock, activate the iPhone.

Looking forward to the firmware with built in exchange over the air activated.

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New Theme…

Decided to try a new theme not sure how this post will turn out but we will soon see in 2 seconds!

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Word, Excel Mail Merge Issues….

Came across a problem with a user at work today, where she was wanting to merge some excel DATA into word. Word wasn’t merging the format that the excel spreadsheet was in. So when the data was merging it was coming across as 9.2 etc where it should have been 92%. The work around is quite simple and i could have kicked my self for not knowing, but i suppose if you have never come across it before then it cant be helped!

In word click on Tools, General and put a tick in the next next to Confirm Conversion At Open

I also came across this document about merging data.

Click Here PDF File

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VB Script…

To export users from Groups in AD

For work I had to export all the users from various AD groups, this was proving quite a task, but here is a work around if you ever need to do the same!

Just copy the code edit the sections to match your domain and save as a .VBS file

‘ Script to get group membership

strResult = “”
strCount = 0
strFile = “MemberOutput.csv”
set objFSO = createobject(“scripting.filesystemobject”)

if objFSO.fileExists(strFile) then
    set objLog = objFSO.opentextfile(strFile,2)
else               
    objFSO.createtextfile(strFile)
    set objLog = objFSO.opentextfile(strFile,2)
end if

strGroupDN = “CN=[EDIT],OU=[EDIT],OU=[EDIT],DC=[EDIT],DC=[EDIT],DC=[EDIT]“
Set objGroup = GetObject (“LDAP://” & strGroupDN)
objGroup.getInfo

objLog.writeline “”"Membership of: ” & strGroupDN & “”"” & vbcrlf

ProcessGroup strGroupDN
objLog.writeline “Total members: ” & strCount
objLog.writeline “Displayname,Distinguishedname” & vbcrlf
objLog.writeline strResult

sub ProcessGroup(strGroupObject)
    Set objGroup = GetObject (“LDAP://” & strGroupDN)
    arrMemberOf = objGroup.GetEx(“member”)

    For each strGroupObj in arrMemberOf
        set objObject = getObject(“LDAP://” & strGroupObj)
        if objObject.objectcategory=”CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=[EDIT],DC=[EDIT],DC=[EDIT]” then
            strResult = strResult &  “”"” & objObject.displayname & “”"” & “,”"” & objObject.distinguishedname & “”"” & vbcrlf
            strCount = strCount + 1
        else
            ProcessGroup objObject.distinguishedname
        end if
    next

end sub

msgbox “Done”

If you get stuck let me know!

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