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Archive for May, 2013

Role Based Access Control Products for Active Directory

by @ Tuesday, May 28th, 2013. Filed under tech

This is an open call out to the AD Community asking for folks to comment (or email me) with a list of the Role Based Access Control Products that they are aware of. Specifically tools that do NOT use native AD ACLing but instead perform all access via proxy like can be done with Quest […]

Everything you need to get started with Active Directory

by @ Thursday, May 16th, 2013. Filed under tech

I saw this link on my friend Bob’s blog (http://www.bobbobel.com/the-everything-active-directory-page) today… Everything you need to get started with Active Directory http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2012/01/03/everything-you-need-to-get-started-with-active-directory.aspx   I see a glaring omission but I will let it slide. 😉      joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

Virtual DC Poll Results

by @ Monday, May 13th, 2013. Filed under tech

Once again, apologies for the slow turnaround time on this. It was a combination of being really busy with my real job along with the poor questions I asked and the way the poll plugin worked. I had to work out how to extract the raw data from the MySQL DB to make some real […]

The Cloud…

by @ Friday, May 10th, 2013. Filed under quotes

"The Cloud" – that place where all of your IT issues are solved. But the sales folks are a little "nebulous" on exactly how… — joe (@joewaredotnet) May 11, 2013 Rating 4.60 out of 5

Correction on USENET AD Group Posting from March 2007…

by @ Wednesday, May 8th, 2013. Filed under tech

I responded to a USENET AD Group post back in March 2007 and unfortunately someone pinged me on it and said the command line I specified didn’t work. I looked at it and immediately saw that I had made a mistake. The post can be found here: http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/enforce-password-required–ftopict483580.html The AdFind query is supposed to find […]

Best Practices for Securing Active Directory – Published April 26, 2013

by @ Thursday, May 2nd, 2013. Filed under tech

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38785 (I am only a little miffed I wasn’t invited to review this… thanks Laura…) Protecting Domain Controllers Domain controllers should be treated as critical infrastructure components, secured more stringently and configured more rigidly than file, print, and application servers. Domain controllers should not run any software that is not required for the domain controller […]

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