So as you our faithful readers now know, we have finished migrating our operations to a Virtual Server hosted by the folks at RackForce. As much as I'd like to say this was a piece of cake, it should be apparent that moving The Lazy Admin was for from easy. (We were working hard on this while the posts volume was down!) Our first challenge ...

During our migration we had a lot of issues with date formats. The old system didn't save its date as a type and as such caused us all sorts of trouble. The key to getting the dates working was to apply a cryptic yet simple formula to the date values in Excel. The original Date Format was stored in Unix Epoch time. This is calculated as the ...

When running batch files, or other scripts from CMD.exe the title bar for the open window will be titled. C:\WINNT\System32\CMD.exe If you would like a custom title, maybe to remind you what batch file is running (useful for login script ID) add the following at the start of your batch file. TITLE [string] As an example I added the the TITLE ...