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Archive for February 19th, 2010

Load Balancing Domain Controllers

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

Recently a friend pinged me about what I thought about load balancing Domain Controllers behind some sort of VIP (Virtual IP) hardware be it from Brocade, Cisco, Barracuda, F5 or from whatever vendor. As a generic statement, I am against it. Period. Active Directory was built in such a way that the load balancing[1] and […]

From the mailbag… Finding groups with a certain string in the name

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: AdFind Hey xxx, you could do something like adfind -default -f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=*webmaster*) " -dn If you want to specify a domain other than the default, replace -default with -b domainDN    joe — O’Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition – http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm From: xxx Sent: xxx To: ‘support@joeware.net’ […]

From the mailbag… Downloading tools

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under general

—–Original Message—– From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: Hey xxx, You should only try to download joeware utilities from my website… I can’t vouche for whether or not other sites have put anything into the executable. http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/oldcmp/index.htm I just now downloaded and unzipped it (using the standard OS unzip and WinZip) and […]

From the mailbag… How to dump SMTP addresses for users in a group

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:joe@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: ADFIND – Group + Members Query You can’t do this in one query, it will take at least two. First query would be to find the group and dump its memberof values. adfind -default –f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=groupname)" memberof The second query (or set of queries) would be […]

I am free…

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under quotes

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.       – Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) Rating 3.00 […]

Happy Birthday Copernicus…

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under general

There is no one center of all the celestial spheres [orbits]. The Earth’s center is not the center of the universe. The center of the universe is near the sun. The distance of the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars. The rotation of the Earth accounts for the […]

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