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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 [...]