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Archive for January, 2006

ADFIND Updated – V01.30.01

by @ Tuesday, January 31st, 2006. Filed under tech

I hate when I do this. When I added the new switch info I added a bug to the usage and totally screwed up and didn’t test it. My general process is to test adfind for bugs and then when it looks clean I update the usage with any new switches, recompile, doublecheck that the […]

Is joeware too big?

by @ Sunday, January 29th, 2006. Filed under tech

I just ran into an issue I haven’t hit before. Someone reported a bug with OldCmp last summer that when they moved computers, the names were all changed to lowercase. I realized that that could be a problem based on what I recalled of the code paths and wrote it down in my bug/dcr file […]

ADFind V01.30.00

by @ Sunday, January 29th, 2006. Filed under updates

I have released ADFIND V01.30.00 The primary reason for this version is to fix a bug that was introduced in V01.27.00 which caused multivalue GUID/SID attributes to be displayed incorrectly. I found this myself when working out a process for something that I can’t for the life of me recall at the moment. I found […]

Misc Pics Part Deux…

by @ Thursday, January 26th, 2006. Filed under general

Whoops. The wordpress edit mode showed the workspace pic fine in the previous blog entry but when I went to respond to a comment on the blog today I saw that it wasn’t displayed properly in the blog, you only saw about half of the picture. So I resized and moved it down. Should be […]

Misc pics….

by @ Wednesday, January 25th, 2006. Filed under general

Just a couple of photos. This is the final pic from my kitchen tile project This is a pic from the tile I put down in the pet room. This is my main work desk. I actually do a lot of work from one of three laptops though because I can wander around the house […]

Administratively setting a password in AD with ADMOD

by @ Saturday, January 21st, 2006. Filed under tech

2 ways 1. admod -b some_dn unicodepwd::somepassword -kerbenc 2. admod -b some_dn #setpwd#::somepassword   The first uses straight LDAP, the second uses ADSI and will probably end up getting stripped out.   Change password is not currently supported, it is a bit of an interesting LDAP op and requires a delete of the old password […]

But the schema says description is multivalued…

by @ Saturday, January 21st, 2006. Filed under tech

So in the last week I have received two email questions that were about an interesting issue with the Active Directory attribute description. To paraphrase both of the questions It says in the schema that description is multivalued but every time I try to use admod to add a second value to the description it […]

Book worth ordering…

by @ Friday, January 20th, 2006. Filed under tech

Here is a really good AD book worth ordering… Description here (also another link to order) Rating 3.00 out of 5

Windows Developers Security SDK

by @ Friday, January 20th, 2006. Filed under tech

Now this looks pretty cool, I need to order it… http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securityreskit/default.aspx The new Microsoft Developer Security Resource Kit brings together a host of valuable references and resources for developing more secure applications. In it you’ll find: Best practices: These guidelines, how-to documents, and checklists will help you integrate security issues into the development process. Training: […]

Adding Operating System Service Pack to the Computer Find Dialog (and columns for display) in Active Directory Users and Computers

by @ Wednesday, January 18th, 2006. Filed under tech

So here is an odd one from me, anyone that knows me knows I am not a GUI person. However every now and then I find something that catches my attention for a second and I will peek at it unless it exceeds my bored timeout of about 15 minutes (for GUI type things). So […]

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