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Now this is really stupid, hope they have a fix in the works. http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2008/09/03/wsus-windows-vista-clients-reboot-automatically-even-though-a-user-is-logged-on.aspx The idea is to shut off things that you don’t need and I would argue, successfully I think, that if you aren’t using remote desktop to control a machine, it doesn’t need to be running. I don’t care if the WUA […]

Recently in working with Laura Hunter on my Technical Review of Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition, I mentioned that AdFind and AdMod could be used together to do a smart™  update of bit flag attributes. She was a bit surprised so I figured I would mention it here as well for everyone. But first let’s […]

Familar with Service Connection Point objects? This is an object in AD that is published by various services so people/processes can find them. For example, by default ADAM will publish a service connection point object in AD so you can easily track down the instances, it will look something like dn:CN={04c817c7-46a4-4a0e-b258-c2bd69c00f78},CN=2K3UTL01,CN=Computers,DC=test,DC=loc>objectClass: top>objectClass: joeware-ServerClass>objectClass: leaf>objectClass: connectionPoint>objectClass: […]