Cain Manor

While trying to make sure a GPO got applied on a Windows 2003 Server, I tried to run gpresult. I got “Access Denied.”
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I didn’t find one clear and concise place explaining how to setup private keys on OS-X. This is my attempt to remedy that.
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nmap -sP 10.1.1.0/24

When I need to find an open IP, this is a decent way to do it. I wish there were a way to find IPs that don’t respond, but this works for now. This won’t work if your network bans ICMP traffic, or your host doesn’t respond, but is alive.

From a command window run…

regsvr32 mshtml.dll
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll -i
regsvr32 shell32.dll -i

After each command, you’ll get a pop-up window saying “xxx was registered”
I support a lot of W2K boxes

osql -E- Login with your Windows credential

to change your authentication mode to Mixed Mode (meaning you can use both local password such as sa, and Windows Credentials), change…

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer\LoginMode from 1 (default) to 2(mixed).

Now that you have mixed, mode you can change the sa password..

osql -E

sp_password NULL,”<new-password>”,sa

go