In an ASP.Net page you can easily get the username of the currently logged in user with Request.ServerVariables(“AUTH_USER”). With the following code snippet you can also get their real name (the “Display Name”) from the Active Directory.

If like me you’re running a Mediawiki wiki you sometimes need to upload large numbers of pictures in one go. This can be done quickly and easily using the ImportImages script.

When deploying a printer by Group Policy using the Windows Server 2008 R2 “Print Management” application on a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory the following error may appear.

When you’re on the home screen and you want to head to a screen that’s more than one swipe away, it’s probably faster to get an overview of all your screens and tap on the one you want. To do this, just pinch in on the home screen

VMware PowerCLI allows us to shutdown a guest operating system on a virtual machine (assuming VMTools are installed) but the command to do this- Shutdown-VMGuest -returns straight away. In a script we may wish to wait for the VM to power down before continuing, this can be done as follows.

In Linux the wc -l command gives a count of the number of lines in a file or pipe. Windows doesn’t have the wc command, but the same can be done using the built-in find command as follows: