User not receiving proxy settings. precedence disabled win 7

This issue seems to suggest that the precedence of GPO rules is at fault, that some entry is overriding something else, but this is not the case I do not think. After reading a million nonsensical posts by microsoft pros i end up none the wiser.

I eventually opt to delete the locally cached profile for the user, and its solves the issue.

On the affected machine, right click my computer-> properties,->advanced system settings->user profiles

IE certificate . Continue to this website. Not working

Internet Explorer Certificate Security Warning, cannot continue (blocked)

But even if we click on "Continue to this website (not recommended).", nothing happens. totally blocked!

Because of the latest updates : KB2661254

IE prevents  connection to any website that use a certificate with less than 1024 bits key

To fix it, you can add a dword key in the registry :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\OID\EncodingType 0\CertDLLCreateCertificateChainEngine\Config\
DWORD (32 bit) : MinRsaPubKeyBitLength
value : 512 (decimal)

Thanks: berneyi  of experts exchange

Could not start the net logon service

c:\>netsh winsock reset

Network card not getting an IP address

or more accurately...

When I attempt to logon to a domain I just joined I
cannot and when i go into services the net logon service
is stopped I attempt to start it and get this message -

Could not start the net logon service on the local
computer. Error 10106: The requested service provider
could not be loaded or initialized.
Solution:
How to determine and to recover from Winsock2 corruption in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, and in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811259

Powershell: Adding users to active directory with a csv

Creating users in AD from a csv file using Powershell

Using Import-Csv and New-ADUser

Some examples in the links
this is good:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/ed20b349-9758-4c70-adc0-19c5acfcae45
better than this:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/374dca0b-6b93-4a77-b53b-51602b2b4544/

And worth a look? simple automation straight from a csv, and  adding to a group also
http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/exchange/active-directory-management-with-powershell-in-windows-server-2008-r2/

Having problems with execution? see:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176949.aspx

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$Users = Import-Csv ".\myusers.csv" 
foreach ($User in $Users) 
{ 
    $OU = "OU=MyUsers,OU=MyStuff,DC=mydomain,DC=local,DC=com"
    $Detailedname = $User.firstname + " " + $User.lastname
    $Firstname = $User.Firstname
    $FirstLetterFirstname = $Firstname.substring(0,1) #not used this but left it in
    $SAM =  $User.Firstname.tolower() + "." + $user.lastname.tolower()
    $userprinci = $SAM + "@mydomain.local.com"
    $logonscript = "logscript.vbs"
    $homedir = "\\server\myarea\" + $SAM + "\My Documents"
    #tried this alternative
    #$homedir = "\\server\myarea\%username%\My Documents"
    New-ADUser -Name $Detailedname -SamAccountName $SAM -UserPrincipalName $userprinci -DisplayName $Detailedname -GivenName
$user.firstname -Surname $user.lastname -Path $OU -HomeDrive "H:" -HomeDirectory $homedir -scriptpath  $logonscript    -
PasswordNeverExpires $True -PassThru
#the password is blank on this example
}



Still issue with creating home directory for user, seems that i have to create this after by using the %username%, then apply this, then add My Documents.

I dont know if this is due to the user not being in a group(i.e. with correct privileges) or what. But cannot have the user in a group till user exists anyway!!??

So therefore I also needed to manually add to group.

This is the part mentioned earlier that adds users to groups, a bit pointless for now
add users to group"OU=MyUsers,OU=MyStuff,DC=mydomain,DC=local,DC=com"  |  ForEach-Object {Add-ADGroupMember -Identity 'ggGroupName' -Members $_}

Twitter widget customization

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/customize-twitter-search-widgets/

Twitter widget customization, after copying the code from a currently embedded widget like the one on here ;)

Awk, Sed and TR

I used Awk, but had issues with removing whitespace and inserting commas.

I had a poorly written Awk text file script, that filled out 19 fields with info. Done in thee style of a none-programmer.

{ FS = "," } ; # comma-delimited fields
{ sub($1,"")}
{firstname=$3}
{surname = $4}
{group = $8}
{username =tolower( $3"."$4)}
.....
#more fields here zzzzzzzzz
.....
{$16=" "}
{$17=" "}
{$18=" "}
{$19=" "}
{print}

which was invoked like this:

awk -f mybadscript.awk mydata.csv > newdata.csv

Then I had to run Sed

sed 's/[:space:]+/,/g' newdata.csv > afterseddata.csv
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8766165/using-awk-to-remove-whitespace

Then ran TR

tr ' ' ',' < afterseddata.csv > aftertrdata.csv
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1271222/replace-white-spaces-with-a-comma-in-a-txt-file-in-linux

Phew. Perl might be easier next time.

Awk substitute and concatenate columns

Using Awk

awk -F, '{ sub($1,"");temp = $3"."$4; $2 = temp; print}' myfile.csv

set delimiter as comma, then removes column 1 sub from "", takes column 3 and 4 and concatenates with a full stop in between them, and puts that in column 2


This was used so i could take a name in a file with a first and last name and create a username like joe.bloggs

Another useful Awk feature is sub strings

awk -F, '{ sub($1,"");temp = $3"."$4; $2 = temp; first= substr($3,1,1); second = substr($4,1,1); $5=first second  ; print}' myfile.csv

substr($3,1,1) takes first char of column 3 puts it in variable first
substr($4,1,1) takes first char of column 4 puts it in variable second
$5 = first second prints these 2 chars together, no spaces

Use on Joe Bloggs to create new column  with contents - JB


This used the substr function

Every good boy.

awk '{print substr($1,1,1)}' temp returns E

awk '{print substr($1,3)}' temp returns ery

awk '{print substr($2,3)}' temp returns od

awk '{print substr($0,7,2)}' temp returns go

 

Thanks to http://unix-simple.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/awk-substr-function.html for examples