Using a GPO to disable the 'Windows XP tour' balloon

Howto remove the annoying "windows xp tour" popup using group policys in Active Directory.

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OSX in AD Environment - Server Time and Slow Network Issues

Are you running OSX in an AD environment
do you find slow network performance
does your directoryservice process max out to 100%

then you probably have a timesync issue.

If your mac's clock is out by too much compared to your MS server then you will have trouble binding to the AD.
This is a security measure in AD.

I found that my Macbook Pro had time set to update automatically from the web
whereas the Microsoft server was set to a different time.
so there was a time difference of about 8 mins


The best way to fix this is to setup your MS server NTP to update from a trusted server on the web.
then get all your clients to update from the internal server.

i just set my mac's clock to be the same as the server.

howto install vmware .bundle

easy
open terminal
cd Downloads dir

sudo sh VMware-Workstation-*.bundle

Excel : Remove internal excel passwords

Great tool to recover/hack excel password protection

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