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Images: A look at geotagging technology

Photos tagged with location data are becoming popular, and new devices are tapping into the trend by offering GPS features. by CNET News.com

Tags: news, mapping, tagging, gps, geotagging, TechRepublic Inc., CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-09-04

Scripting Help

Good afternoon.Is there a way I can tell which users have what mapped drivers and also which mapped drives are available please?Let me give you some background on this....Im trying to create a new shared area across departments, however we have so many drive mappings and cross mappings via departments...

Tags: Scripting languages, steve.garlinge@..., mapping

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Undocking Dell Latitude D610 and lost drive mappings

I am not sure if the issue is related to a Dell, but I am seeing this issue only on the Dell laptops, not the IBMs, in my plant.The users who have a Dell Latitude D-series laptop are loosing their drive mappings when they undock/redock their laptops into a Dell...

Tags: Notebooks, woodrt@..., Dell Computer Corp., mapping, laptop computer, Dell Latitude

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

copying user profiles - what gets copied exactly?

Hello all! At my company, we are having to manually migrate over a 1,500 PC's from one domain to another due to a one-way trust. Once the user's PC is on the new domain they are also going to get a new username and password, which they are already using...

Tags: Printers, Microsoft Outlook, matt_bilyeu@..., mapping

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

Extracting information from Active Directory in Server 2003

I'm currently looking into retrieving specific information about user accounts in AD, particularly each user's drive mappings are. AD only lists one mapping per user account, which won't help me since some users have multiple mappings. Is there way to obtain this information remotely instead of walking to each user's...

Tags: active directory, drive mappings, mapping, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, networking, vabui@..., windows, windows server 2003

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

VPN - can't map to remote machine. Different symptoms.

I've checked the following on four different machines (XP/Vista). They all can connect to a VPN login, but only TWO of them can map to the remote server on the other side.Here's the twist, the two that can NOT map a drive...can still ping AND RDP remote desktop to that...

Tags: Jim@..., xp, vpn, ping, networking, mapping, rdp, vista, ipconfig, server

Discussion threads 2007-02-26

Leadership and Systems Thinking

You probably can describe and quite finitely diagram the technical aspects of your work systems. What about the human dimensions? One of the interesting things about the way we commonly think about systems is that by definition, we are to emphasize actions as components of the overall system and...

Tags: Mapping, Accountability, Leadership, Self Examination, Assumptions, Blohowiak, Mindset

Blog posts 2007-02-14

Drive Label Says Network Drive

Here's the snippet of code I'm using:If InStr(strGroup, lcase(Staff_Group)) Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "H:","\blahGeneral" objShell.NameSpace("H:").Self.Name = "General"Now when I login as someone in the Staff Group and I open windows explorer I for a share name I see "Network Drive (H:)" rather then "General (H:)" any ideas why?Thanks for the help.-Chris Matera

Tags: cmatera@..., drives, mapping, network, Network Drive, networking, programming, scripting, server 2003, shares, windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Network drive mapping problem

Hi..I'm trying to map network share to one of our users and I fail all the time. I can map that share with his username and password on my computer but not on his.It keep saying that "The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and...

Tags: jjuskak@..., mapping, network, networking, password, windows

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Google Earth gains chimp pix, travel videos

Correct link to the image galleryHere's the correct link to the image gallery:New visions from Google Earthhttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-1035_11-32126.html

Tags: Sonja Thompson, mapping, news, google earth, programming, Google Inc., video

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Windows Live Search ready to go live

Another search engine competes for popularityA new online search portal, called Windows Live Search, features an improved user interface that fetches more accurate Web search results. Live Search lets users hunt for news, images, video, blogs, and RSS feeds through one search portal.Do you think Live Search will rival Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Live Search, windows live search, microsoft, mapping, news, Sonja Thompson, networking, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live Search, search engine

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Mapping of column name in excel file with database table

hi!!In my project in asp.net,I have to fetch data from excel file and store that data in sql table and i have fetch only that columns of data from excel which i mapped with perticular columns in database table. Pls help!Thanks in advance.

Tags: Storage, Databases

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Mashups for fun--and profit?

Mashup usesGood and interesting article.Seems like there could be some money-making applications, including political campaigns, non-profit fund-raising, and marketing probably via direct mail. The route to the data needed to display stuff "of interest" to a given audience might be a bit circuitous, but someone with access to the USPS...

Tags: mashup

Discussion threads 2006-04-21

Disconnected Network Drives

Recently on our workstations some of our drives are showing up as "diconnected". If a user clicks on a drive they can see the contents and now the drive shows up connected in My Computer until the next boot. This not only happens for some Novell network drives, but also...

Tags: Databases, mapping

Q&A 2006-02-02

recurring drive mapping

Good morning folksThis is probably an easy fix for someone. I thought I had it figured out but it is not being fixed. I have a user running a Windows XP desktop with Novell Netware redirector, Novell Zenworks etc. User logs on to Novell File/Print via novell client, also...

Tags: drive, hardware, jcmoffitt, logon, mapping, mappings, Novell Inc., recurring

Discussion threads 2006-01-27

Mapping a Local Folder to a network drive

Map a local folder to a network drive as in....S: is the network drive on a server.C:server is the folder I want the S: drive mapped to, so as when you click on c:server you will see the contents of S:This is due to the fact that my company has...

Tags: C:\server, dave@..., desktop, drives, folders, hardware, map, mapping, network, server, virtual, windows

Discussion threads 2005-12-15

Mapping drive letters to local folders in Windows XP

Mapping drive letters to local folders in Windows XParticle rootnice tip ...Hiya,I know that I've been a little sceptical and very critical of some "functional postings" over the past couple of months, but ...... At last someone with a tip that is both very functional and handy to know ..Initial...

Tags: ArthurP, corporate, disk, functionality, hardware, mapping, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, networking, Subst, user, windows

Discussion threads 2005-12-01

Don't blame the online mappers

How do we submit corrections?I am a Field Support Tech in East Tennessee. For the past five years there has been quite a bit that is incorrect. Even to the point of not only is the street name wrong but the path the street follows is incorrect. ...

Tags: GPS, bartlmay

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

Terminal Service is loading too long

Hi,some user have encounter that whenever they login to the server thru terminal server,the loading is crawling at the "Loading your personal settings". It can take up to 20minsto connect. But once connect it is very fast.Any idea about this issue?Thanks..This is usually caused by a large profile or bad...

Tags: JEPott, mapping, naturale02@..., terminal services, windows

Q&A 2005-10-11

All drive letters mapped

I have a problem with several winxpsp2 clients on a w2k3 domain. All drive letters from F: to Z: are mapped to the same server share and are labelled as diconected but still access the same share mostly. My login scripts map 4 drive letters to 4 different shares. mostly...

Tags: pjs.2am@..., windows, mapping

Q&A 2005-10-10