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Archive for August, 2006

YAWRSS – Yet Another Windows Remote Shell solution…

by @ Tuesday, August 15th, 2006. Filed under tech

Not sure why they did this without making it so it works from legacy clients, seriously hampers the use of it for some time. Reminds me of the crap with doing admin work from XP, you couln’t with the normal tools until Server 2003 came along. It would be nice if those two sides of […]

Mounting bicycles…

by @ Tuesday, August 15th, 2006. Filed under general

Raymond has an interesting blog entry on getting on bikes… http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/08/14/699522.aspx The comments, as usual with Raymond’s blog, are quite interesting as well. It made me recall my biking youth and it is interesting to note (at least to me) that my next oldest brother and I at the least used the Chinese-Michigan method often but […]

HOW DO I: Transfer the PDC master role with admod…

by @ Monday, August 14th, 2006. Filed under tech

This was sort of an aside to a question I discussed with a fellow MVP today… Get hex format of domain SID Send to new DC with operational attribute becomePDC Simple huh? Ok here is a little more detail.   Get hex format of domain SID adfind -b dc=domain,dc=com -s base objectsid -sidbinout Of if […]

bonehead@company.com

by @ Monday, August 14th, 2006. Filed under general

I saw on a listserv today that SBS Mom  who ran into an issue where an IE Helper App from Company X and the publisher column is listed as “(not verified) TODO: < Company Name > “. So I was thinking, who do you take that up with? You want the company to fix their […]

Dorks

by @ Monday, August 14th, 2006. Filed under general

Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=91CA576C-0219-42FF-8D70-358E4CA460AF Super Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=71A1AB76-A4A0-4518-BBB5-4814869A8A37 Princess Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F8C04F4A-BFF2-453E-9AED-7DFEDAB0BE10 Active Dir Org Kiwi Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=9E65199B-9E4A-4374-A758-A595EC437EA2 The Dork next door: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CD41B8DC-639E-4F1E-BAC9-CCB5873501CB Cookbook Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=28398877-75A9-4BAE-8393-2D6E894A8CAB  GPO Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=DB003CFE-A19A-4DB1-8CBA-0C6DB3ECDFC1 DR Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=E8E8003E-E12D-4B9F-ADF8-E3302BB0A951 Dork.NET.html.url(): https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CD02A5E5-0645-4750-A6E5-854349861C40 Afraid to post a picture Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=9328704F-1DD9-46DE-8B10-229C50B884DC Small Business Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CE014B24-6892-47AC-B2B5-902D4241ECBF FTP Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=90B5EE92-9F9B-4B79-8288-60A3E648C8D9  AD Maid Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=E7F1CD17-07EF-41BC-8368-F4A1D09A0C22 [Edit: 8/14/2006 9:36PM EST] Exchange GUI Dork: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=75A59B58-A479-43FE-998F-6FA311016412 […]

NTFS: The filesystem that can’t fragment…

by @ Sunday, August 13th, 2006. Filed under tech

Anyone recall that claim besides me. Oh no, not only will NTFS not fragment, it cannot fragment… Yeah, that was being said not too long ago really… I started thinking about that again when I ran an interesting little PC Pitstop program someone asked me about and it told me I was really fragmented… This […]

Developers doing operations…

by @ Saturday, August 12th, 2006. Filed under tech

I was reading through some of the blogs I monitor and Larry Osterman’s blog referred to a blog entry from Dare Obasanjo (and another) talking about why Developers SHOULD NOT be doing your ops. I agree, dev should not be doing ops. As Larry says the skill sets are slightly different. More importantly, the goals […]

Windows DNS Server Negative Cache

by @ Saturday, August 12th, 2006. Filed under tech

So how do I display what info is in the negative cache? From the command line… Also, the DNSCMD tool allows you to show the positive cache, but I don’t see how to have it show the entire positive cache versus just the cache for specific domains that you specify. I looked at what it […]

How painful can flying get before people find other methods?

by @ Friday, August 11th, 2006. Filed under general

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/11/airline.security.rules/ The flight rules are really tightening down. UK seems to be taking the brunt of it, with no carry on except for a single plastic baggie (preferably transparent) with a small list of things that can be carried including wallets, travel documents, prescription meds, eyeglasses, contact lens holders w/o bottles of solution, baby food/milk […]

How do I: Find all accounts that will expire on such and such a day with AdFind plus some chatter about -e.

by @ Friday, August 11th, 2006. Filed under tech

This question came in the newsgroups today and I thought it was a good one to show off an AdFind feature that you won’t find duplicated in many places… The ability to specify dates for those nasty Int8 fields… The question was (paraphrased)…. How do I find all accounts that have a specific Account Expires […]

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