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Important Disney Phone Numbers

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Important Disney Phone Numbers

Just because they’re hard to find in one place anywhere else, here is a list of important phone numbers for various Disney related places.

Walt Disney World Resort Guest information 407-824-4321

Walt Disney Downtown Disney 407-939-2648

Disney Quest Downtown Disney 407-938-6253

Cirque du Soleil 407-939-7600

Walt Disney World Merchandise Guest Services 407-363-6200

Disneyland Recorded Information 714-781-4565

Disney DeliverEars / Merchandise Guest Services (US only) 800-760-3566

Disney Catalog (US Only) 800-237-5751

Magic Kingdom Club Gold Card 800-313-4763

Disney Auctions and Disney Deals 1-800-328-0899

Walt Disney Event Services
Email: WDW.Event.Reservations@DISNEYWORLD.com
Phone: 866-247-1203 or 407-827-7600
Fax: 407-566-1387

Please comment below if any of these no longer work, or you have another one to add to the list.

How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac

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How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac

One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too.

To do this, you need to also deploy the following files:

~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist

Deploying these files will keep also keep the initial setup assistant from running upon first launch.

Deployment can be via any of your normal methods, Apple Remote Desktop being the “Apple Preferred Way,” of course.

Credit Card Company Back Door Phone Numbers

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Credit Card Company Back Door Phone Numbers

Here”s a list of backdoor phone numbers to Credit Card Companies. This is partially taken from the Cardratings.com Forums and includes numbers from my own research.

American Express: 800-809-6849 (lending dept)
American Express: 800-874-2717
American Express: 800-223-2670
American Express Oasis Program: 888-232-3261
Barclay’s: 866-750-6031 (corporate)
Best Buy: 888-237-8289 (customer care)
Best Buy: 800-365-0292(CSR)
Bank of America: 800-732-9194 (dept. unknown)
Bank of America: 866-865-7842; 866-506-5067 (Credit Dept. Analysts/Recon)
Bank of America: 302-741-1825 (Recon)
Bank of America: 800-421-2110 (for cli ? )
Bank of America: 888-831-4181
Bank of America – Credit Analyst Department: 1-866-751-1257
Capital One: 800-951-6951 (Customer relations)
Capital One:-800-548-4593 (application department; status)
Capital One: 800-889-9939 or 800-625-7866 (Account Specialist)
Capital One: 877-513-9959 (Account Retention?)
Capital One: 800-427-9458 (Fraud department. They take ALL calls seriously!)
Capital One: 800-258-9319 (Debt Recovery)
CareCredit: 866-893-7864 (credit services)
Chase: 800-432-3117(App status)
Chase: 800-648-5588 or 800-945-2006 for APR decrease(Card Services)
Chase: 877-781-3109(combining & product change)
Chase: 888-245-0625 (Credit Analyst – Recons)
Chase: 888-871-4715 (Lending Department)
Chase: 888-643-9628 (FAX – underwriting)
Chevron: 801-743-2030(Credit Dept)
Chevron: 800-243-8766 (ask for UW)
Citi: 800-950-5114 (Account Specialist)
Citi: 888-201-4523 (Approval Status)
Discover: 888-676-3695(Recon)
GEMB/GE Money Bank/Gap/Banana Republic/Old Navy: 888-248-3182 (credit services)
HSBC: 800-694-9222 (cust. service)
HSBC: 831-755-6699 (executive customer service)
HSBC(M.C.)888-385-8916
Hooters: 801-545-6705 or 800-850-4668
J.C.Penny:866-239-4362 (credit services)
Juniper: 866-408-4064 (Credit Analyst)
Juniper: 866-750-6031 (corporate)
Key Bank MC/Citi: 800-288-4653 (underwriting)
Krogers: 888-954-6767
Lowes: 800-445-6937 (application status)
Lowes: 866-232-7443 (underwriter)
Lowes: 800-444-1408 (fraud and/or underwriting)
Macys: 800-243-6552, 800-458-6229
National City: 800-762-0974 (Credit Dept)
Nordstrom: 1-866-445-0430 (hit 2, then 0#) (card services)
Orchard: 800-395-6090
Sam’s Club: 800-301-5546 , 866-246-4282 (credit services)
Shell: 800-223-3296 , 866-438-7435 (credit department)
Shell: 800-377-5150 (customer service)
Target: 612-307-8010, 612-307-5580 (Target Financial Services – FAX – Underwriting – VP: Robert M. Barnhart)
Target: 605-323-2028 (Target National Bank – FAX – VP: Jim Meyer)
Target: 800-659-2396, 800-394-1829, 888-755-5852, 888-755-5856, 612-307-5811, 800-621-2410, 888-608-7627, 888-394-1885 (credit services)
Target: 612-304-6073 (guest relations – President of TFS: Terrence J. Scully)
Target: 866-225-7040 (BACKDOOR)
Tiffany & Co: 800-770-0800
U.S. Bank: 800-364-7390
Victoria’s Secret/VS: 800-695-9458
Victoria’s Secret/VS: 614-729-7572
Wal-Mart/(GE Moneybank)/GEMB 1-866-419-4096, 877-294-7548 (Underwriting)
Wal-Mart (by GE Money Bank) is: 1-877-294-7880 (reported to be the best number)
WaMU CSR: 800-356-0011, or 800-280-9441; 888-687-2273.
WaMu: 800-687-2273 (Applications/New Accounts)
Wells Fargo: 415-396-1104


Please update me with any additions or subtractions

How To: Check Apple Warranty Status via ARD

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How To: Check Apple Warranty Status via ARD

Here is an awesome little script by Scott Russell of the University of Notre Dame. Using the “send Unix command” in Apple Remote Desktop, it can pull the system’s serial number, send the information to Apple’s Warranty Website and then tell you if the machine is under warranty.

#!/bin/bash

# warranty.sh
# Description: looks up Apple warranty info for this computer, or one
specified by serial number on the command-line

# Written by: Scott Russell, IT Support Engineer, University of Notre
Dame
# Created on: Sat Jan 5 16:20:54 EST 2008
# Last Modified: Thu Sep 25 09:29:11 EDT 2008

###############
## GLOBALS ##
###############

WarrantyTempFile="/tmp/warranty.txt"
PlistFile="/Library/Preferences/edu.ND.DSSBranding"

if [[ $# == 0 ]] ; then
SerialNumber=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Serial Number"
| awk -F': ' {'print $2'} 2>/dev/null`
else
SerialNumber="${1}"
fi

[[ -n "${SerialNumber}" ]] && WarrantyInfo=`curl -k -s
"https://selfsolve.apple.com/Warranty.do?serialNumber=${SerialNumber}&countr
y=USA&fullCountryName=United%20States" | awk '{gsub(/","/,"n");print}' |
awk '{gsub(/":"/,":");print}' > ${WarrantyTempFile}`

#################
## FUNCTIONS ##
#################

GetWarrantyValue()
{
grep -w "${1}" ${WarrantyTempFile} | awk -F ':' {'print $2'}
}

###################
## APPLICATION ##
###################

echo "$(date) ... Checking warranty status"
InvalidSerial=`grep "serial number provided is invalid"
"${WarrantyTempFile}"`
#echo "InvalidSerial == ${InvalidSerial}"

if [[ -e "${WarrantyTempFile}" && -z "${InvalidSerial}" ]] ; then
echo " Serial Number == ${SerialNumber}"

PurchaseDate=`GetWarrantyValue PURCHASE_DATE`
echo " PurchaseDate == ${PurchaseDate}"

WarrantyExpires=`GetWarrantyValue COVERAGE_DATE`
echo " WarrantyExpires == ${WarrantyExpires}"

ProductDescription=`GetWarrantyValue PROD_DESCR`
echo " ProductDescription == ${ProductDescription}"
else
[[ -z "${SerialNumber}" ]] && echo " No serial number was found."
[[ -n "${InvalidSerial}" ]] && echo " Warranty information was
not found for ${SerialNumber}."
fi

exit 0