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How do you get [ADSI] as a shortcut for System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry()???? Seriously. From MSDN What is ADSI? Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) is a set of open interfaces that abstract the capabilities of directory services from different network providers to present a single view for accessing and managing network resources. Administrators and developers can use ADSI […]

Brandon posted recently about the UTDV and how to get it in PowerShell. As he mentions in the blog post some chatter on AD Org got him and I going down another road in an offline email stream. This resulted in him finding a .NET method to get this over his really painful way he […]

I keep losing this link so posting here so I can find it later. 🙂   http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/ldapcomp.mspx   Summary This paper discusses the origins of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within Microsoft products and, specifically, the implementation of and conformance to the LDAPv3 Proposed Standard within Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. […]

Recently there was a post on AD Org that spawned a discussion on the history of Active Directory. My friend ~Eric who is about as pragmatic as they come (though he can’t seem to get the hang of posting regular blog posts[1]) said well heck if we want the history of AD, lets all stop […]

More from the mailbag…. I just downloaded and tried your memberof utility, but I think I’m missing something. What I want to do is – in the Windows logon script – determine if the logged on user is in a particular group so I can take a specific action.  The easy part has been to […]

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Another one from the mailbag… adfind -b cn=ZZZ,ou=Users,ou=AAA,ou=XXX,ou=ad,DC=YYY,DC=com dn msexchmailboxsecuritydescriptor publicDelegates publicDelegatesBL -f “(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user))” -sddc++ -resolvesids >> C:\textfile.txt what an i missing to pull permissions off a mailbox that they user has applied on the client. Say I have an account reviewer to my contacts in my mailbox Thanks for any help   This one […]

This was part of a message in my inbox, it was about using OldCmp and this was one of the questions. We want to move all the users into the appropriate OU based on the first two digits of their username. Can we move users into an OU? Something like: -move –b ou=Carlisle, dc=domain, dc=com […]

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Brian wrote up a great little article on the steps he took in troubleshooting a service that was crashing, I highly recommend this article.   http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2008/08/05/msdtc-exits-on-pdce-transfer.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5