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Not sure if I shared this before… A nice little post of Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Feature Components in PDF format.
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Feature Components

Brandon has been on a Firefly quote kick lately so I dug up some links for him, thought I would share those and some others with the rest of the geeks…
Cool opening song

This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then explode.
 
Ringtone
http://www.madringtones.org/tone/363111-Ballad-of-Serenity
 
MP3
http://www.whedon.info/Firefly-Theme-Song-Ballad-Of.html
 
Guitar [...]

Anyone get this working? I keep blowing up when installing the ActiveX components or if I get through the install it just hangs on checking connection. I actually need this working to get to the network of one of my customers.

http://www.codeplex.com/PAL
Haven’t used it but it looks like it could be cool. Brian told me about it.

Something that always annoys me is when I look at an Active Directory and start finding old Domain Controller Server objects out in the sites container for DCs that were demoted or forcibly removed from Active Directory weeks, months, or years ago. This is just sloppy admin work but once it is done and hasn’t [...]

This is probably obvious to some but thought I would write it up for those it wasn’t obvious for…
Sometimes when you look at a group in AD or ADAM, you see foreignSecurityPrincipal (FSP) objects in the membership. These aren’t generally, for most people anyway, quick to be resolved to friendly names so maybe you end [...]

You may have encountered some perf issues reading the blog today (Sept 14, 2009). This was due to something within my provider POWWEB. I contacted them and they said they would look into it and suddenly it was working as normal again. Of course this provoked questions…
This was the first response I received
Hello, [...]

For those looking to identify the misc plants growing around the yard… Or if you have to look for a specific plant for your natural remedies…
 
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_intro.html

I received an email with a script to clear the pwd_not_reqd flag that the author said he meant to post as a comment but couldn’t (old posts don’t allow comments anymore to slow down on spam). The post was http://blog.joeware.net/2006/06/29/431/
Fortunately, you don’t need a script to do this, it is a one liner with adfind/admod [...]

This is a combined effort work of art… The guilty shall remain nameless…
 
My Active Directory forest before Microsoft Exchange

 
My Active Directory forest after Microsoft Exchange

This is quick and easy with AdFind and AdMod…
You just have to find the users, pipe their DN and sAMAccountName to AdMod and tell it to do a rename… Like so
adfind –b ou=someou,dc=domain,dc=com -f "&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(name=*,*)" samaccountname –adcsv | admod –rename {{samaccountname}} –upto 1000

That command self limits itself to only modifying up to 1000 [...]

Who would have thunk it???
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jul09/07-20linuxqa.mspx
“Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux community and [...]

http://dloder.blogspot.com/2009/08/exchange-2010-rc1-and-adminsdholder.html
This is just silly… Seriously. Allegedly products go through a security review, how did this make it past that? This isn’t the kind of thing that should be caught in testing as indicated by the first comment, this kind of thing should never have happened in the first place. It is, IMO, the result of [...]

http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2009/09/sending-e-mail-as-sms-or-text-message.html
 
Really useful answer by Michael W. on the Microsoft TechNet forums. If you want to send a text message from an e-mail client, most carriers allow you to do this. You send an e-mail message to number@emaildomain. For example, if you want to send a message to a T-Mobile user whose phone number is (808) [...]

I have been meaning to post this link since July…
http://oceangallery.com/

One of the alert joeware fans out there sent me a link to the following TechNet story that utilizes AdFind.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.09.sdadminholder.aspx

While the article is a bit rough, for example sdprop isn’t responsible for AdminSDHolder[1] it is an ok article for a general sort of conceptual overview on how it works[2] and there is some good [...]

I have a PC that I don’t like much but have to use. I don’t like the software configuration on the machine but don’t have any real choices in the matter. I won’t go into it more than that…
So today I am trying to get something done and as usual the machine is crawling [...]