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Exchange 2010 environment
You need to be part of the Organizational Environment in AD.

Locate your account in Active Directory Users and Computers
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Add
Organizational Environment
OK
Log off and back on to the server and you're good to go.

Unable to open FTP site in windows explorer

Check to see if the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ftp exists.
On a computer I was working on, this key wasn't there.  Export the key from a computer that has it and import it into the bad computer's registry.

Try again.

Enjoy. 

CMD resource

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntadmincommands.php#Cmd15

The one I use the most:
    View all domain controllers-

    DSQUERY Server

Creating bootable USBs

So I have a laptop with no CD drive, and I want to put windows 7 on it instead of windows 8 (user preference). I found one thread online that said just to move the files to the bootable usb drive. So I did this without really think I had to do anything to make the USB bootable. No go. So I found this this useful :http://en.kioskea.net/faq/29462-windows-7-create-a-system-repair-usb-key. I used the DISKPART portion to format the usb and then I moved the files from the system generated repair disk (Backup Restore, Create a system image). Worked like charm.
Open the command prompt: "Run" -> CMD
And then type the following commands:
·         DISKPART · (This command will open the tool "diskpart")
·          list disk · (Look for the No. assigned to your USB key from the list that appears)
·          select disk 3 · (Where No. 3 correspond to your USB key)
·          clean
·          (This will delete this partition)
·          create partition primary
·          (Create a new partition)
·          active
·          (This will make your partition active - bootable)
·          format fs=fat32 quick
·          (Quick format in "fat32")
·          assign
·          (To assign a letter to your USB drive)
·          exit
·          (To exit diskpart)
·          exit
·          (To close the command prompt)

I had intended to boot to the recovery 'cd' and load a premade image from another computer, but because of HD size differences (HD the image was based on was bigger) I ended up not being able to pull the previous image. And the USB drive I was using wasn't big enough to have a complete w7 install on it (Dell factory CD) so I ended up formatting an external hard drive in FAT32 moved the contents of the w7 repair disk and that worked. The External HD wasn't anything big, 80GB, but I was getting an error saying the format failed because the volume was too large... yay.
To shrink the volume in diskpart, type in:
shrink desired=##### 
Replace the number signs with the amount you want to shrink it by. With my 80GB hd, I shrunk it by 50000, roughly 48GB and I was then able to format with FAT32(quick) and make it bootable.

In the future, I think I'll just get an external CD drive.

Printer Hell

I've spent way to much time fiddling with printers...
Some good things I've come across:

Need to remove print drivers from a windows 7 computer?
Enter CMD as admin
printui /s /t2
remove those printer drivers.

I've recently had a few computers that have the spooler crash when trying to print, add, or remove printers.
If you go to \windows\system32\spool there will be a few folders
drivers
PRINTERS
prtprocs
SERVERS
tools

Remove all the files from PRINTERS and SERVERS and see if the spooler stays steady.  It did for me.