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Archive for June 19th, 2005

“GUIDs” or “Having unique in the name doesn’t make it so…”

by @ Sunday, June 19th, 2005. Filed under tech

There is a common misconception that GUIDs[1] are guaranteed to be unique. The misconception is probably because GUID stands for Globally Unique Identifier or people are misunderstanding the concept of being “mathematically guaranteed” unique.
If you look at the documentation for one of the higher MS API function that creates GUIDs - CoCreateGuid you will find [...]

This is difficult…

by @ Sunday, June 19th, 2005. Filed under tech

Here I am just working away on Active Directory Third Edition with the Media Center playing recorded Will and Grace or Yes Dear! episodes in the background and I am sweating over some of the changes.
I mean some changes are easy, things that are wrong and it is a simple matter to correct the info [...]

FindExpAcc Updated…

by @ Sunday, June 19th, 2005. Filed under updates

I added a couple of features to FindExpAcc to help folks out using it in scripts to send messages to people about upcoming expirations…
The first change is a new column in the CSV output called expireDays. This field is the number of days until expiration. If it has a negative value, it means the account [...]

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