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Archive for August, 2005

mbconn.exe

by @ Tuesday, August 30th, 2005. Filed under tech

If you have access to the source code of mbconn.exe or in fact any tool that can remotely connect a mailbox to an active directory user account without using that poor WMI method, please please please I beg you send it to me. I am under at least 5 different NDAs at this point in […]

Password format for LDIF files

by @ Monday, August 29th, 2005. Filed under tech

If you have ever tried to set a password for a user in AD or ADAM with LDIFDE you know you have to convert the password to unicode, enclose with quotes, then Base64 encode it. What a pain huh? Check out this cool tool to do it… StringConverter F:\> stringconverter.exe \”NewPassword1\” /encode /unicode IgBOAGUAdwBQAGEAcwBzAHcAbwByAGQAMQAiAA== Rating […]

2005 MTV Awards… Boooooo

by @ Monday, August 29th, 2005. Filed under rants

So did the MTV awards suck this year or what? About the only cool thing was Green Day winning all of awards they won. Good for them, great band, great statement. Other than that that was one of the worst MTV Award shows I have seen. I hope they don’t ever bring Puff Daddy, or […]

Media Center Edition 2005 users beware!

by @ Friday, August 12th, 2005. Filed under tech

I just wanted to put a quick blog entry out there to say if you run Media Center Edition 2005 beware of a new hot fix that recently hit Windows Update. It is an update for eHome Remote control, some sort of rollup for various things… Well all I have to say is my remote […]

Lipstick on a pig…

by @ Friday, August 5th, 2005. Filed under rants

If you put lipstick on a pig, it still oinks and probably still won’t be allowed into a nice 5-star eatery. Why do I say that? Because of a google news hit I saw this evening…. From the website www.newsday.com – “Bush re-ignites evolution debate“… Sounds like the burning bush is at it again…. Ok […]

Fun with AD ACLs and ADSI

by @ Thursday, August 4th, 2005. Filed under tech

Last night when I was working on the script for doing more granular delegations for the confidentiality bit I ran out to google to look one of the constants or something up and ran into a post of a friend of mine in the newsgroups from a couple of years ago. I didn’t see it […]

Oy, writing about AD Security

by @ Thursday, August 4th, 2005. Filed under tech

Well I have been stuck on one of my chapters for several days now. It is the chapter on Active Directory Security. Unfortunately it is missing any references whatsoever to some pretty basic AD Security concepts like inherited vs explicit ACEs, property sets, extended rights, validated writes, and default ACLs so I am adding all […]

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