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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]