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I received an email today from someone trying to pipe data from AdFind to ExchMbx. While ExchMbx is getting a little long in the tooth and PowerShell was supposed to have killed it by now since everything is Exchange is supposed to be done via PowerShell now, seems some people are still using it. Anyway, […]

Today I saw emails from two different sources asking about AdFind not returning Extended Error information when the –exterr switch is specified. However, the information was visible in a network trace. Must be a bug in AdFind right??? Maybe… While it could be a bug in AdFind, to date my experience is that it likely […]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff423674.aspx This is about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and ADFS V2. "An Introduction to Claims" explains what a claim is and gives general rules on what makes a good claim and how to incorporate them in your application. It’s probably a good idea that you read this chapter before you go on to the scenarios. […]

Pretty nice Kerberos FAQ available at http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html      joe Rating 3.50 out of 5

I built my very first production Active Directory in an Enterprise environment on this day 10 years ago! c:\>adfind -config -f "(&(objectclass=crossref)(name=companyname))" -alldc whencreated AdFind V01.40.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) February 2009 Using server: dcname.city.company.com:389 Directory: Windows Server 2003 Base DN: CN=Configuration,DC=company,DC=com dn:CN=COMPANYNAME,CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,DC=company,DC=com >whenCreated: 2000/04/12-19:25:22 Eastern Daylight Time 1 Objects returned That was a scary time […]

http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200905/the-only-valid-review-of-active-directory-design/   Rating 3.00 out of 5