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So anyone who used Windows LiveWriter, beta 2 is now available. Looks quite a bit different. More complex. Doesn’t open a new window for every new blog post which is nice. I keep seeing my CPU on my laptop spike up to 80-100% for bursts with WindowsLiveWriter.exe as the culprit when using it though. Not sure what [...]

I tried to upgrade a Vista RC2 to RTM last night, it didn’t work so well. Normally I don’t upgrade, I don’t trust upgrades. It wasn’t my computer though and there was a bunch of installed software and I didn’t want to mess with it. RC2 had been running fine and it wouldn’t have needed [...]

I have an issue with Cell Phones… Or maybe how they are marketed. I realized I wasn’t carrying my Cingular 8125 around very much unless I was working and had to because, quite honestly, it is a big fat brick and sounds crappy without my Jawbone BT Headset[1] which means something else I have to carry. We [...]

I was perusing some of the newsgroups today and ran across such a (IMO) well written response by Joe Kaplan (JoeK as I normally refer to him) to a question asked about LDAP authentication that I wanted to share it.
 
——– Original Message ——–Subject: Re: Authenticate against AD + other DSDate: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:56:15 -0500From: [...]

Why is it that people think they can say, “Yeah I am getting Event ID 1000, do you know why that is?”
For the record, Event IDs are not UNIQUE. You need to know the Event Log, the Event Source, AND the Event ID.
Maybe it is the only Event ID 1000 that person who [...]

…can’t you turn on auditing of the manipulation of share permissions directly either through GUI or code?
By this, I mean the permissions on the share, not permissions on the files and folders in the share. This may seem odd, but maybe, just maybe you want to know WHO is changing permissions on the share.
Just [...]

Today is a very green day. Not like the band you numpty, but like the color. Though come to think of it, some Green Day music turned way down would be nice…
Err, back to point… I am sitting upstairs in my palatial mansion (LOL - if 1800 sq ft is palatial) sitting at my laptop [...]

I love perl, absolutely adore it. I love how I can take one small exe and one small DLL and take it anywhere and get just buttloads of functionality out of the core language. Well I needed a script to tear through and document ACLs on a file system. Now I didn’t expect the core [...]

I watched Man of the Year this evening, good movie, I laughed, I thought it made a lot of good political and state of the country points. Had to chuckle when Jeff Goldblum found out Eleanor didn’t lose her access to the systems when she was fired and commented something like, “Wasn’t that a bad idea?”. I have [...]

Since I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress I can’t get LiveWriter to upload images; says the site doesn’t allow it. How annoying. Anyone else seeing that? I will have to get out WireShark and do a network trace when I get a chance.
   joe

Have you scheduled September 25th (and the week or two after) off from work yet? That is the release date for Halo 3. I will buy my XBOX 360 a month or so before that date so I know I have a good solid machine (yes, I don’t have the XBOX 360 yet and yes I [...]

Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. Those who have read the blog for some time know I love The IT Crowd out of England. I would be perfectly happy for them to broadcast that version here but it looks like, similar to The Office, they are recasting it for the US.
http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/The_IT_Crowd/cast_credits.shtml
Moss is [...]

So we are down to the final two… While Melinda was certainly a better singer than Blake, she really had no real personality and the one she had the “Oh who me? I am that good?” was really worn out, I was tired of that after the first 2-3 weeks of her being told she [...]

For some reason, I don’t care why to be quite honest, my virtual server management website isn’t working now on one of my Virtual Server 2005 R2 hosts. It works if I hit the website from another page but if I am sitting at the console it doesn’t work. I get a completely non-useful message [...]

I am working on AdFind again, well, let me say that it is pulled up in the IDE again. I am almost always tweaking it and usually have a special version I run that has more fun stuff in it than the version you all get to run. For example I have been running V01.37.00 [...]

Is anyone out there really doing this? I recently started looking at the docs for it and the output from a trace and I can’t say that it is very friendly output nor is the documentation very friendly in general.

The people who use my free utilities and/or read my posts aren’t truly customers since they don’t pay for the goods I supply but I still consider them customers when I think about them or get pinged by them.
Well one “customer” sent me a nice success email today and I wanted to share it with everyone [...]

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I submitted a bug for Longhorn this last Saturday, Microsoft turned it around two days later and it is listed as fixed. It was an issue I found with LH activation. Gotta love that turnaround speed…
 
TypeBugID276936
StatusClosed (Fixed)Access RestrictionPrivate
Opened Byjricha34Blocking IssueNo
Opened5/12/2007Submission LanguageEnglish
ResolvedClosed

5/14/2007 10:04:11 AM

You knew this was going to happen when Dreamz said it was the hardest decision he had to make. If he actually had any honor whatsoever, it wouldn’t have been a difficult decision, it wouldn’t even be a decision. You don’t accept a piece of gum in exchange for a promise let alone a Ford F350 unless you [...]

Happy Mom’s Day to all the Mom’s out there!
 
 

Along with the requests for how is Server Core less resource intensive, there were requests for more info on how to do various things in Server Core that you tend to do right off when setting it up to test. I will admit I am by far not the expert here, lots of other folks [...]

The response I have gotten from the Server Core posts has been pretty good, tons of emails and a several comments posted directly to the blog. Seems people are very interested; that is very good IMO. Some of the emails were asking questions like “We keep hearing it is so much lighter and uses less resources, can [...]

All week, 80 degree (~27c )  temps though we had rain at the beginning of the week. I was really looking forward to serious Jeepo-ing this weekend looking for property and getting some good tan and sunshine… All of a sudden, the weekend is here and it is like 62 degrees (~16c)… Grrrr.

Just so I don’t forget what I just worked out.
To change screen resolution on Longhorn Server Core, modify
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\[GUID]\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\[GUID]\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution

On VMWare Server I am finding 1162×864 works out well. The value for [GUID] will depend on the installation. It seems under \Video\ there are usually multiple GUIDs listed, the first one enumerated usually seems to be [...]

Have you heard of this thing? Longhorn Server Core that is? Do you know what it is? Do you care? Yes mom, I know you don’t know and you don’t care, you can skip this posting…
Longhorn Server Core is a new version of Windows Server that looks something like the following image when [...]

Ah no. In fact that is absolutely incorrect to the nth decimal place.
This has been coming up a lot lately and I have been fielding quite a few questions on it.
Plain and simple, if you have a Windows Server 2003 RTM Server and you have not disabled the DNS RPC Management Interface you [...]

The other day I mentioned (http://blog.joeware.net/2007/05/07/868/) how it appears IBM will be laying off 150k or so Global Service folks… There have been a few good comments I have run across to the article
This first one made me chuckle but it is so true folks…
First they outsourced off the call centre workers and I did not speak [...]

 Haha. Too funny. Internet Explorer not trusted… About time.
I’m a dumbass, I read the image too quickly, it didn’t bust IE, it busted Windows Explorer, totally not as funny.
 

 

I use the Wide Open West (WOW) Cable company for my internet. In general I love it. Great speeds, price was great, not so great anymore but ok.
Well today something occurred that could get me to switch providers regardless of cost at a moment’s notice, I sent an email to WOW to see [...]

Full story here:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html
Snippet:
Last year I wrote a series of columns on management problems at IBM Global Services, explaining how the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit anyway, often to the [...]

For those of you who don’t surf my free tools page on a daily basis, you will be happy to know that the world infamous and to date ONLY official tool to manage Password Setting Policy Objects in Longhorn Active Directory is now available as a free download from www.joeware.net.
This utility is a smash [...]

Another example of someone looking for answers without knowledge that ran into in the newsgroups… I wish there was some way to determine what country was involved…
Subject: How to edit host file using GPODate: Wed, 2 May 2007 07:06:13 -0700From: Shanthi <Shanthi@discussions.microsoft.com>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory
I want to add some more lines in all clients host file [...]

Just as I pointed out that GPOs aren’t AD in this post - http://blog.joeware.net/2007/04/20/852/
This also goes for DFS, NTFRS, DFSR, Terminal Server Licensing, MSMQ Queues, Exchange, SharePoint, MIIS, ADFS, PKI/CA, any of the techs, really, that MSFT marketing decided to slap “Active Directory” into the name of, and many other technologies that *use* AD but aren’t [...]

It replicates normally just like any other attribute, it just isn’t updated all of the time.
I go bonkers every time I see someone trying to explain it doesn’t replicate all of the time (more accurately people say it only replicates every 14 days). That is because it is completely wrong… It replicates just like any [...]