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If you could sit down in a room and speak to the Directory Service developers, what would you tell them needs to be changed? What causes you pain that they really need to change?
If I get the info before Thursday night, I just may be able to bring up your point with the developers.

I, with many other MVPs are Redmond bound for the week. A week spent with the MS Execs and Dev folks. Personally, I could probably do without the Execs and instead just spend the entire week with the dev folks. The execs are ok but that is mostly propaganda and the Devs are telling you [...]

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things”
- Robert A. Heinlein

“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
- Robert A. Heinlein

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
- Robert A. Heinlein

Here is a pretty good commentary…
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-brinton0925.artsep25,0,1189183.story?coll=hc-headlines-commentary
Like many Christians, David Bush believes that the biblical account of creation is an ancient piece of poetry that was never meant to be a literal, scientific description of what happened as life appeared on the earth. Instead, it’s a faith-based explanation of why life exists, and how humans are [...]

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
- Douglas Adams

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
- Douglas Adams

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams

“Love” is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
- Robert A. Heinlein

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is [...]

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
- Robert A. Heinlein

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
- Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Never insult anyone by accident.
- Robert A. Heinlein

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing - with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for the second and third place.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
- Robert A. Heinlein

They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
- Robert A Heinlein

I was forced to use Frontier Airlines this last week. I had never heard of them let alone used them. Unfortunately I had to be somewhere fast and all of my normal airline choices couldn’t get me there because they were booked up. So I had to go with Frontier, I am sure someone in [...]

I was the victim of a parachute drop this week. What is a parachute drop? It is where there is a problem somewhere and your boss calls you and says, you need to be on the next plane to “insert name of city in the world here that you weren’t planning on being at tomorrow”. [...]

PLEASE SEE POST - http://blog.joeware.net/2008/05/03/1230/
Just a quick one here.
I did a search trying to find a ready built GUID to string GUID routine and didn’t find anything I liked so I wrote up a function to do it. Specifically I needed to convert schemaIDGUID attributes to the string GUID format in vbscript. I had [...]

I just wanted to say that.
I think it would be quite fun to be able to focus on fun stuff like writing programs to do things other programs don’t do and just come up with ideas and help people on an informal ad hoc basis instead of having to worry about working and making [...]

Wow, another good question in the newsgroups that makes for good Blog fodder….
Question:

We are running W2k3 AD and Exchange 2003 SP1 in a multiple child domain environment. When we create a Universal Distribution Group in say domain A and add a user in domain B to the Manager tab (we also check ‘Manager can [...]

I encounter questions like this on a fairly regular basis. Just a few minutes ago I hit it in the newsgroups and I responded, I thought, you know, that would make a good blog entry… So here it is….
The question was
Does anyone have a set of queries that I can use to re-construct the GAL [...]

I was playing around with GPO’s and Security Configuration and Analysis yesterday to verify a process I previously figured out where someone without GPO permissions but with OU permissions could override the domain policy for user password/lockout settings on local computers so that each computer in an OU could have its own policy defined [...]

Of course lots of folks are talking about the events in Louisiana and I have started hearing some a fairly common startling comments…
“How come the military isn’t involved? We should be sending the army in to clean out the looters…”
Folks I didn’t like history class in high school, but I do recall the Posse [...]

It may be a little early to be thinking about the future of the areas devastated by the Hurricane that hit Louisiana and Mississippi but I am doing it anyway.
If you were given money to rebuild, would you rebuild down there again?
I would have to say I certainly wouldn’t. Already there were warnings for [...]