joeware - never stop exploring...

…an experiment in designing a solution by feeling the bumps on the walls and listening for screams…
     – me (discussing an infrastructure architecture project)

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: Support Reuest
Hi xxx,
You won’t be able to do this with just usernames in a file with just adfind/admod, you would need a script to add the additional logic to look up the usernames and [...]

…and I am still using LDAP…
 
Obviously the announcement of its demise was a bit premature.
 
That is why I chuckled when I heard it last year.
 
   joe

I thought this was an interesting little setup…
 
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/2007-04-01/Portable-Chicken-Mini-coop-Plan.aspx
 
Yes that is a little different from what I normally post. But hey, I live in the country and am thinking about getting some chickens.
 
   joe

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
    – Robert Heinlein (Time Enough For Love)

Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!
   Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

One way or another, what you get, you pay for.
    – Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Recently a friend pinged me about what I thought about load balancing Domain Controllers behind some sort of VIP (Virtual IP) hardware be it from Brocade, Cisco, Barracuda, F5 or from whatever vendor.
As a generic statement, I am against it. Period.
Active Directory was built in such a way that the load balancing[1] and [...]

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: AdFind
Hey xxx, you could do something like
adfind -default -f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=*webmaster*) " -dn
If you want to specify a domain other than the default, replace -default with -b domainDN
   joe
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O’Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition – http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm

From: xxx [...]

—–Original Message—– From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE:
Hey xxx,
You should only try to download joeware utilities from my website… I can’t vouche for whether or not other sites have put anything into the executable.
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/oldcmp/index.htm
I just now downloaded and [...]

From: joe [mailto:joe@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: ADFIND – Group + Members Query
You can’t do this in one query, it will take at least two.
First query would be to find the group and dump its memberof values.
adfind -default –f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=groupname)" memberof
The second query [...]

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
 
    – Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

There is no one center of all the celestial spheres [orbits].
The Earth’s center is not the center of the universe.
The center of the universe is near the sun.
The distance of the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars.
The rotation of the Earth accounts for the [...]

PKI / Certificate Authority Information
http://blogs.technet.com/pki/archive/2007/08/19/windows-pki-documentation-reference.aspx

I have added a text file in a semi-CSV format up on the website for current versions and release dates of the utilities. There is a link from the free tools page but you can go directly to it via
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/versions.txt
This is what it currently looks like
Updated: 2010.02.18
—
App,Version,Date
accexp,01.01.00,2002.08.04
adfind,01.41.00,2010.02.13
admod,01.12.00,2010.02.13
adqueueloop,02.00.00,2006.03.23
atsn,01.00.00,2004.03.27
auth,01.01.00,2001.08.17
changepw,02.03.00,2006.06.26
clienttest,01.01.00,2005.11.09
cpau,01.11.00,2005.11.08
dnssrvrec,01.00.00,2006.01.15
eldll,01.00.00,2002.02.17
eldllex,01.00.00,2002.02.17
exchmbx,01.04.00,2006.04.29
expire,01.00.00,2000.04.15
findexpacc,01.01.00,2005.06.19
findnbt,01.02.00,2002.11.15
findpdc,01.00.01,2001.09.28
gcchk,01.03.00,2004.08.30
getuserinfo,02.07.00,2003.09.27
lg,01.02.00,2006.07.10
memberof,02.03.00,2006.06.10
netsess,02.00.00,2004.02.01
oldcmp,01.05.00,2004.12.28
qlogoff,01.00.00,2001.01.28
quiet,01.01.00,2002.04.27
psomgr,01.00.00,2007.04.15
secdata,02.03.00,2002.08.19
sectok,01.00.00,2001.11.11
seinteractivelogon,00.10.00,2001.09.20
shrflgs,01.00.01,2005.02.19
sidtoname,02.00.00,2003.03.07
snu,01.00.00,2001.11.04
svcutil,02.04.00,2005.06.12
unjoin,01.01.00,2007.07.17
unlock,02.01.00,2004.08.16
userdump,01.01.00,2001.01.28
username,01.00.00,2002.10.08
w2klockdesktop,01.00.00,2001.05.10
writeprot,01.00.00,2004.08.08

If you have Outlook 2010, install this bug fix…
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2010/02/12/fix-for-message-size-issue-in-outlook-2010-beta.aspx

Previously I announced that ADAM/ADLDS was available for Windows 7 client machines. Shortly after I announced that MSFT quietly pulled the product back off the download site due to some issue that they did not disclose. An issue critical enough though that they actually pulled the product.
Anyway I just got confirmation from Microsoft today that [...]

Ten years ago today Active Directory was made publically available[1]. Been a long ten years and we have seen some cool/wonderful things and some sad/horrible things. Overall, looking good AD.
   joe
 
[1] RTM was December 15, 1999.

The betrunkener Schmetterling releases of AdFind and AdMod have been posted to the website.
You can find AdFind V01.41.00 here —>  http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm
You can find the new usage here —> http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/usage.htm
 
You can find AdMod V01.12.00 here —>  http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/admod/index.htm
You can find the new usage here —> http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/admod/usage.htm
 
You had to expect something was going to hit the joeware free [...]

Last time I looked, the Daemon ISO Mounting Tool didn’t work for Windows 7, just looked again today and now Windows 7 is supported and it actually works:
 
http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon

When I was 13 I knew it all…
When I was 16 I realized I didn’t know it all at 13 because I now knew it all…
At 19 I realized I didn’t know so much when I was 16 because I really knew it all then.
At 21 I finally got the point and [...]

If you don’t know joe’s tools, are you really into AD?
     – Florian Frommherz (http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=180)

People like to think they know more than they do, especially the ones that know the least.
   – me

Unfortunately this year I won’t be attending the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Seattle nor The Experts Conference. Things didn’t work out properly for me to pull it off. I will greatly miss seeing my friends at Microsoft at the summit as well as the other MVPs.
I will also (as will my g/f) miss [...]

If you see any of these errors
 
You cannot open this document because we cannot set up your computer to open documents that have restricted permission.
 
The Rights Management client returned the following result code: 0×80004005(-2147467259).
 
The Rights Management client returned the following result code: E_DRM_SERVICE_NOT_FOUND.
 
The Rights Management client returned the following result code: E_DRM_BIND_VALIDITY_TIME_VIOLATED.
 
Check out http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=979099

…what would you guys like to see in it?
 
I am once again thinking about writing a book for AdFind and AdMod coupled with LDAP basics, Active Directory basics, and ADAM / ADLDS Basics. Then maybe some discussion on how to use all of the above mentioned products. Basic guidelines I give folks when I asked. [...]

There is an article on TechNet about the forest’s tombstone lifetime for Active Directory (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784932(WS.10).aspx) that was discussed on an internal MSFT DS Team / MSFT MVP email list. The discussion pointed out that there is a little confusion around the article.
Specifically the confusion can come up around step 8
Note the value in the Value [...]

History is cyclical in nature, the evidence shows us. What is today, was before. What was yesterday, will be tomorrow. We need to learn from our mistakes, so that instead of travelling endlessly in a repetitious cycle, we move in an upward spiral towards perfection and utopia.
   – David Hatcher Childress in Technology of [...]

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions while soaking in comfortable baths in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.
   – Edmund Wilson

When (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “Father of the H-Bomb”) asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo Nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, “Well, yes, in modern history.”
    – David Hatcher Childress – Technology of the Gods
 
joe Note: It is [...]