joeware - never stop exploring...

I am looking to set up a Wiki for the joeware tools, let you abusers help each other out by posting what works for you, etc. Probably expand it out to other AD and ADAM topics as well. So that means I need to find good solid simple easy to configure Wiki software to run [...]

AdFind has been updated to V01.36.00. For details see
http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/adfind.htm
 
AdMod has been updated to V01.10.00. For details see
http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/admod.htm

The online platform SDK MSDN Library has sort of been turned into a Wiki… I was poking around looking at Schema definitions to see if there was any new info explaining some of the attributes and at the bottom of an attribute I noticed a little button that says “Add New Community Content”…..
Very cool… [...]

Daylight savings time          Microsoft waits way too long                   Admins get sore ass

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1592834,00.html
 
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Ever since Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, NASA has controlled our mission in space. It became a sacred place, untouchable, a museum open only to select government employees. Fewer than 500 people have reached space since Shepard; Branson plans to double that number in Galactic’s first year. NASA’s idea of [...]

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/6MT0i8ftH10MTN/NASA-Virgin-Galactic-May-Fly-Us-to-the-Moon.xhtml

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/archives/2007/02/microsofts_legal_future_is_now_1.html

…both Iraq (with the exception of Baghdad) and Afghanistan and probably Iran and India would all be bombed into rubble…
Driving around Michigan today I got backed up by our famous Michigan road crews in the middle of an intersection. They blocked it for about 5-6 cycles of the light so I am thinking, cool, probably doing [...]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
Some key features of Virtual PC 2007 include: Support for x64 Windows as a host operating system Support for hardware virtualization support Support for Windows Vista as a guest and host operating system Support for PXE network booting of virtual machines Support for the use of full screen virtual machines on multi-monitor systems (VM still [...]

So you have been thinking about updating your computers for the DST changes this year… Did you remember to update your Windows Mobile devices?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/default.mspx

It is official. I am registered for the Directory Experts Conference 2007… As an attendee only, I am not speaking. Well I will speak about the same as always, in the halls and during the various social engagements, etc. But not standing up at the front of a room trying to sound intelligent. As of [...]

I have been running more and more power hungry virtuals and finally had to load up some SQL Servers (I don’t like SQL Server the app[1]). This called to attention that I needed to use more than my older hardware for running virtuals so I ordered the materials to make Super Fast Virtual Mofo…. SFVM. [...]

Creationists defeated in Kansas school vote on science teaching
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2013263,00.html
Comment: This is what happens when people too busy getting real work done start paying attention again.
 
 
New presidential series aims to end the $1-coin curse
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-coins15feb15,1,4828077.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Comment: I hate coins… Though I have some of the earlier $1 coins in case they become valuable some time. Don’t ever see [...]

Congrats to the Dixie Chicks! I love seeing Freedom of Speech validated.
Go Shakira and Christina Aguilera… Shakira had a great little stage show, I doubt she ever has to work out when she is on tour… Christina blew everyone off the stage. What pipes… The amount of sound that comes out of that tiny frame is [...]

Good advice is good advice. Whether that advice comes from the back of a bathroom stall, a fortune cookie, or from the mouth of a respected intellectual has no bearing on its validity.

I recently mentioned the beauty of Phantom Root and how you can use it to search all of the NCs on a DC in a single fell swoop. This works great but I stumbled upon a slight oddity. I am discussing it with the MSFT DS Dev team as there is some debate/question on exactly [...]

I was working on some additional functionality for AdFind to decode the replication metadata in a little more readable format than the default XML format you get with msDS-ReplAttributeMetaData and ran into an issue with DS_REPL_ATTR_META_DATA_BLOB.
The structure is defined on MSDN - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms676250.aspx
It looks like
typedef struct {DWORD oszAttributeName;DWORD dwVersion;FILETIME ftimeLastOriginatingChange;UUID uuidLastOriginatingDsaInvocationID;USN usnOriginatingChange;USN usnLocalChange;DWORD oszLastOriginatingDsaDN; } [...]

Dana says it very well here… http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001001.html
 I agree with him, the UAC stuff was extremely obtrusive in the beta phases and *might* get annoying when initially setting up a new PC if you are loading a ton of stuff but honestly, it hasn’t really bothered me since Beta2. That beta was rough and I actually turned [...]

Something that kind of annoys me about the Star Trek Universe is that everyone but the Earthlings and Vulcans seem to be running around with cloaking capabilities… What gives? The Vulcans especially who are all into not disturbing people and running/talking versus fighting and are supposed to be some of the most intelligent beings in the [...]

I posted yesterday about AdFind being on the bench and I received a couple of emails. One of the emails came from a friend who now works for MSFT. The core of the note was
In ADFind, could you also have a switch to tell you the size of the ntSecurityDescriptors attribute? I’ve noticed quite a few applications (such [...]

As mentioned previously, AdFind is on the bench being worked on. While I am here with the hood up, do you have any queries that you run on a regular basis that have a long complicated command sequence that you think would be useful to be shorted into one of the shortcut options? Let me [...]

Thomas:  There’s a knock on the door. I open it, and there’s this cute little girl scout-
Nellie: And she was so adorable, with the little pig tails and all.
Thomas: And she says to me, “How would you like to buy some cookies?” And I said “Well, what kind do you have?” [...]

In the last couple of months, I found myself in a position where I could only access a domain controller through a reverse proxy port redirector and was simply redirecting port 389. This adds some level of difficulty to doing some things since AD isn’t strictly LDAP based. There is quite a bit of stuff [...]

Discovery channel had an interesting little series of shows on called 2057. I can’t say I agree with all of the predictions but it is an interesting show just the same.
They have a web site for the show with more info
http://www.discovery.com/2057

Hey anyone know what happened to The IT Crowd? That came out some time ago but I haven’t seen anything but the original 6 episodes. Did it get canned?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFp9Oi4qfwA

The best part of the Super Bowl… I don’t even know who played the game.
http://www.youtube.com/superbowl

I was poking around looking to see where we were at with thin panel solar and found this item for sale… 15 foot long 20 Watt rollable solar panel… Marine Grade 12V application… Only $350. They have smaller options available as well. I wonder if they sell this type of stuff in Marina’s, I certainly [...]

I think I mentioned a while back but if not I loaded Vista Ultimate on my 17″ HP laptop shortly after Vista went RTM. Well I was getting a non-occasional opportunity to experience the exciting “Blue Screen of Death” (BSD) with no common cause, it was all over the map. When I ran the laptop on the [...]

If you are wearing pants with a zipper in them, chances are the zipper has the letters YKK on them. But why?
This is just one of those odd type questions that I occasionally come up with. I happened to notice in a single day that three different pairs of pants by different manufacturers all had [...]

[JD is holding a copy of "The War in Iraq for Dummies" and is on about page 20 of about 420 pages]
I felt like an idiot so I’ve been reading up on this Iraq situation.  You know what’s so messed up?  I just got to the part where President Bush gave his mission accomplished speech [...]

Futureweapons the TV show rocks… If you are a geek in any way shape or form, you have GOT to watch this show. Your propeller will fly at about Mach 2.

Are we still out there Defending Infrastructure Security….. err no was it Defending Security Infrastructures?  Whatever… I received two emails today about the same basic topic and at first I was annoyed and then it cracked me up…
Someone unmentionable at Tandon Endeavors seems to have recently decided that he or I guess it is his “company” called [...]

So one of my old MCS friends who is no longer with MCS and is now doing real admin work has admitted that he loves AdFind and depends on it daily. That makes me smile. What makes me smile even more is when he runs into things that I used to bitch about to him [...]

I keep getting pinged on this so I will likely add a switch like -csvnoq or something like that… In the meanwhile if you don’t want quotes in your AdFind CSV output use -csvq “” which literally tells adfind to use null for the quoting character.
You need to be careful with this though, the [...]

In actuality cheap I.T. labor screws I.T. up and ends up costing more in quality, correction/redo work, and loss of customers sick to death of dealing with your shitty workers. You get what you pay for. If you want to use dirt cheap I.T. labor… when your data and everything else is ass backwards, you know why. [...]