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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html
 
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/british-bank-ba.html
Here is a snippet
A customer of the British bank Lloyds TSB discovered the bank had changed his account password because someone on staff apparently couldn’t take a joke.
Steve Jetley had created the password “Lloyds is pants” after he had a dispute with the bank over free travel insurance that was supposed to come with [...]

I am sure all of us at some level or point can agree with some of Mr. Exum’s comments.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_133893.asp
 
Excerpt (lots more good stuff to read, go to the link)
ландшафт
Finally I get “Sonny” in your repair shop. He’s as nice and kind as anyone I ever talked to. But soon “Sonny” became “Sunny” because, it turns [...]

Ok so now I am past the top 10 and the top 8… Mostly this is seeming boring to me. Carly is very good, she will have a career after this but I don’t think she can win. Kristy is stunningly beautiful and a good singer, she won’t win. Brooke is very good and getting less boring and I [...]

So who here likes to run ADAM on their client PCs? Who would like to run the Windows Server 2008 version of ADAM on Vista? Yeah me too.
Microsoft was stupid and didn’t make it so Windows Server 2008 ADAM could be installed on the Client OS. Extremely shortsighted. Extremely silly.
So what we need is [...]

In reference to the previous MSFT Virtualization platform validation post
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/081908-vmware.html
There doesn’t seem to be any official announcement, but a Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday that VMware has joined Microsoft’s Server Virtualization Validation Program. This means that VMware will try to get its hypervisor certified by Microsoft, and once that happens Microsoft will offer technical support for [...]

I want to see your name on this list…
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp/

I have a friend who is a bit insane. I say that because she runs many many miles just for fun. She isn’t trying to chase down a cat that got out the door or chase down a nice ice cream cone or something, she just runs to run and to help other people. She [...]

Dean said I am a hermit and couldn’t believe I didn’t know who won when he saw my last post.
I truly do not know who won, please do not share that info with me. My head has seriously been very much down in the dirt the last 6-12 months with the CO stuff and [...]

So some of you noticed a while back that I wasn’t chatting up American Idol at all which I occasionally do. I am a music kind of guy and that is a show I find interesting at times. Well the thing is, with the stuff that happened the last year I didn’t actually watch it, [...]

How do you get [ADSI] as a shortcut for System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry()???? Seriously.
From MSDN
What is ADSI?
Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) is a set of open interfaces that abstract the capabilities of directory services from different network providers to present a single view for accessing and managing network resources. Administrators and developers can use ADSI services to [...]

Brandon posted recently about the UTDV and how to get it in PowerShell. As he mentions in the blog post some chatter on AD Org got him and I going down another road in an offline email stream. This resulted in him finding a .NET method to get this over his really painful way he [...]

I keep losing this link so posting here so I can find it later.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/ldapcomp.mspx
 
Summary
This paper discusses the origins of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within Microsoft products and, specifically, the implementation of and conformance to the LDAPv3 Proposed Standard within Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Included for reference are [...]

Recently there was a post on AD Org that spawned a discussion on the history of Active Directory. My friend ~Eric who is about as pragmatic as they come (though he can’t seem to get the hang of posting regular blog posts[1]) said well heck if we want the history of AD, lets all stop [...]

More from the mailbag….
I just downloaded and tried your memberof utility, but I think I’m missing something.
What I want to do is – in the Windows logon script – determine if the logged on user is in a particular group so I can take a specific action.  The easy part has been to figure [...]

http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-vuln.html

Another one from the mailbag…
adfind -b cn=ZZZ,ou=Users,ou=AAA,ou=XXX,ou=ad,DC=YYY,DC=com dn msexchmailboxsecuritydescriptor publicDelegates publicDelegatesBL -f “(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user))” -sddc++ -resolvesids >> C:\textfile.txt
what an i missing to pull permissions off a mailbox that they user has applied on the client. Say I have an account reviewer to my contacts in my mailbox
Thanks for any help

 
This one needed [...]

This was part of a message in my inbox, it was about using OldCmp and this was one of the questions.

We want to move all the users into the appropriate OU based on the first two digits of their username. Can we move users into an OU?
Something like: -move –b ou=Carlisle, dc=domain, dc=com –af [...]

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38817/108/

Brian wrote up a great little article on the steps he took in troubleshooting a service that was crashing, I highly recommend this article.
 
http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2008/08/05/msdtc-exits-on-pdce-transfer.aspx

Got this question in the mailbag today, thought I would share as it is common question
I’m looking for a reference or some lead on how I can comprehensively report the date of the last time all user accounts passwords in AD were reset.  I was wondering if you could point to something out there.

My response
You [...]

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