Finding Disabled User Accounts on Active Directory

For working purposes I needed to find all user accounts disabled on our domain and move them to a different Organizational Unit (OU).

To do that without scripting and simply using MMC, follow this tips:

• Open your MMC
• Navigate to Active Directory Users and Computers
• Select View -> Filter Options
• Then select Create Custom Filter and click Customize
• Select the tab Advanced
• For the LDAP query, type useraccountcontrol:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2
  
  

• Click OK and OK again

The MMC will refresh and now for every OU with user accounts (objects) you'll only see the Disabled User Accounts.

To disable the filter just click agar in View -> Filter Options and select the option "Show all types of objects"

Steve Ballmer e-mails all Microsoft employees about the new CEO

Also today, with all the buzz around the new Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer (the former CEO) sent an e-mail to all Microsoft employees:
Steve Ballmer - Satya Nadella - Microsoft's New CEO

Satya Nadella - First e-mail to all Microsoft employees

After the official announcement has the new Microsoft CEO, here's the public e-mail sent from him to all Microsoft employees:
Satya Nadella - New Microsoft CEO

Satya Nadella it's now official!

After a lot of speculation, Satya Nadella was today announced officially as the new Microsoft CEO and succeeds to historical Steve Balmer.
Satya, 46 years old was born on India and was until today responsible for Microsoft's Cloud Services.

Here's the official Microsoft News:
Microsoft News - CEO

Microsoft SkyDrive will turn to Microsoft OneDrive

Imposed by lawsuit, Microsoft announced that it's cloud storage service (SkyDrive) will soon been renamed to Microsoft OneDrive, half a year later of the lawsuit from British Sky Broadcasting Group.

Ryan Gavin, a Microsoft VP, stated that although it's not easy do renamed a brand like SkyDrive, this new brand gives even more focus on the excellence of the product.

Microsoft also launched a video about OneDrive:

Google Chrome Is Listening Your Conversations!

A flaw discovered in the past weeks in Google Chrome, makes it possbile to malicious sites to keep listening what you're saying even after you close the website you allowed.
This video demonstrates how it works:

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Installation Hangs

When installing vCenter 5.5 (simple installation) on a Microsoft Windows Server 2012, the setup hangs almost when finishing.

This happens because the installer it's looking for something that Windows Server 2012 doesn't have.
The ocsetup.exe file.

To fix this, you'll need to:

• Find a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and copy the OCSetup.exe from %windir%\system32 to your Windows Server 2012 machine
  
• Then, install the feature Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
  
• Restart your machine and restart your vCenter 5.5 setup

And it's all done! :)