About Us
HOL is more than a house full of cables - it is a state of mind. Hah! well, not really. But it is more than just a house full of cables at any rate - it's got ethernet over power too!
Anyway, I mainly use this site to post up reminders of how I did useful things with PHP, Linux, HTML & CSS, and sometimes even good ol windows. I figure that if I keep on forgetting these things, someone else is bound to also find these postings useful.
It's also here for me to test out various web development concepts, and to check out the power of SilverStripe.
May the packets be with you
Al
Founder (;
The House of LAN
Latest blogs
Managing Silverstripe Upgrades In Your SVN Projects
Let's face it: FTP is for the web developers of the '90's; real developers use SVN (or some other source control software).
Reset all passwords in an Active Directory OU
Sometimes we need to reset everyone's password on the network - for instance if we are doing a server/network migration and we need to access everyones accounts. With this little cmd snippet you can easily tweak it to reset everyone in a particular OU's password:
Reset Administrator Password on SBS 2008
So you've managed to loose your admin password for your SBS Server 2008 eh? Well in my case, a faulty keyboard caused an incorrect password to be set. Whatever the reason you need to reset the password, I'll assume you're doing this for Good, and not Evil.