joeware - never stop exploring...

I’m sure that sounded like a good plan in the beginning… I’ve had lots of those… Like when I tried to breed wiener dogs with cats to get wiener cats… Well you don’t get long skinny cats… You get one dead cat and a [...]

The real Eleanor if you don’t know who she is…

 
The replacement? (http://www.thalondesign.com/files/smart.htm)

Recently needed to pull some QFE info to validate some things… Found some fun commands.
wmic qfe list full /format:htable
wmic /node:”servername” qfe list full /format:csv

Today I ran into an issue where a syncing tool blew up because it encountered an object that had multiple values in an attribute that “normally” has a single value in it and it didn’t know how to properly sync that object. Well obviously whomever set up the syncing tool kind of made a mistake [...]

AdFind V01.40.00 has emerged from the cocoon… The Butterfly Release is now available.
After I released V01.39.00 I intended to go work on AdMod and get that updated and released, however I started hearing reports of typos and other comments on the functionality in AdFind V01.39.00. So I decided to work on AdFind a [...]

Yesterday I added a new member to the domain admins group in a company I do work for. Off the cuff I typed up a few comments to send along with the note indicating the access has been granted, thought I would share.
1. Do not share your credentials with anyone. Period.
2. Be scared when using [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

This is a pretty common question folks ask about on the internet. They bought a new machine with 4GB of RAM and Windows is only telling them it has some lesser amount between 3GB – 4GB available so they think their machines are broken or that Windows is broken.
Here is an excellent article discussing this [...]

Recently I was searching for some specific OU’s in Active Directory that had a specific substring within the name. i.e. it didn’t start with a specific substring, the substring I wanted was buried in the main string like for example the substring Crab in the string Joe’s Crab Shack which would be represented as *crab* [...]

Back on Jan 21 I tipped my hand on a new capability in AdFind which for many people is extremely exciting based on the feedback in my inbox. To refresh your memory, that was the ability for AdFind to take in a list of Base DN’s to execute queries against. For short we will say [...]

So wow, looked at this list of recalled Peanut Butter products for the first time today…
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm

Random super bowl thoughts…
1. Boring Springsteen put on a poor half time show.
2. Not sure why he wouldn’t have closed with Born in the USA with red white and blue fireworks. Likely would have been huge right now.
3. Cardinals did not deserve to win.
4. Cardinals offense and defense both were explosive at times but mostly [...]