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In my last post I was bemoaning forgetting a password validation API call. As I was sitting around watching my tropical fish tank and relaxing from the long hard week I finally remembered the API call. For future refererence for myself and for anyone who thought, hey that sounds like a cool function, I am […]
What do you do to store the knowledge you have gathered? How do you have it setup for effective storage and retrieval? Does it work? Yesterday I was going through some newsgroups and ran across an item that I knew the answer to but I will be darned if I could find the API call […]
Still no blog posts from Brett. ~Eric has another humorous writeup concerning this spellbinding tale of the complete lack of the written word (excluding categories of course) and the man and the ideas behind the man it takes to accomplish it in such a spectacular fashion. I am starting to believe that when, but mostly […]
There is a common misconception that GUIDs[1] are guaranteed to be unique. The misconception is probably because GUID stands for Globally Unique Identifier or people are misunderstanding the concept of being “mathematically guaranteed” unique. If you look at the documentation for one of the higher MS API function that creates GUIDs – CoCreateGuid you will […]
Here I am just working away on Active Directory Third Edition with the Media Center playing recorded Will and Grace or Yes Dear! episodes in the background and I am sweating over some of the changes. I mean some changes are easy, things that are wrong and it is a simple matter to correct the […]
I added a couple of features to FindExpAcc to help folks out using it in scripts to send messages to people about upcoming expirations… The first change is a new column in the CSV output called expireDays. This field is the number of days until expiration. If it has a negative value, it means the […]
So I don’t let myself go lax on updating this blog, I am forcing myself to step out here and say something occasionally, even if the audience for the message could be extremely limited. I finally have the contract from O’Reilly for Active Directory Third Edition and while there was a little confusion around the […]
Cool update to the previous post on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 SCM ACL Issue. Microsoft actually does have some functionality in SC to handle viewing/manipulating the SCM ACL. Cheer!!! It isn’t something that you can see in the help from SC, but Steve Patrick under his tech4steve@comcast.net address posted a link to a blog […]
It is muggy and nasty outside so I don’t want to play in the yard. Especially since I did a lot of yard work yesterday and got pretty crispy fried. I don’t feel like doing some tile work I need to do in the house. So I am sitting here in a nice air conditioned […]
There is a fairly cool update in Windows Server 2003 SP1 that is currently biting folks. In SP1 Microsoft took the ACL that always existed on the Service Control Manager and made it useful. They made it so you can now modify that ACL to control who can access the SCM, previously you could enumerate […]
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