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Archive for March, 2019

LDAP Ping and Determining Your Machine’s Site

by @ Sunday, March 31st, 2019. Filed under tech

Microsoft has a specific method for returning basic information that can be used for finding what site (and what is the next closest site) for any given machine that reaches out to a domain controller with a LDAP query. Originally the query had to be performed over CLDAP (connectionless LDAP aka UDP LDAP) but sometime […]

And FreeBSD12 has been tested…

by @ Tuesday, March 26th, 2019. Filed under perl, tech

No changes to the script… $ uname -mrs FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE amd64 $ perl jwDCLocator_linux.pl /domain:k16tst.test.loc jwDCLocator V01.02.00pl  Joe Richards (support@joeware.net)  March 2019 Initializing Logging to logfile 20190326-2229-jwDCLocator.log… Reading configuration file jwDCLocator.config… Configuration file does not exist, skipping… Determining bootstrap domain controllers via DNS for k16tst.test.loc…   BootStrap Hosts: k16tst-dc1.k16tst.test.loc k16tst-scdc1.k16tst.test.loc k16tst-dc2.k16tst.test.loc Dynamically determining site…   […]

So very close… Reasonable Effort Platform Agnostic Perl Script That Implements the Active Directory DC Locator Process…

by @ Friday, March 22nd, 2019. Filed under perl, tech

Getting very close to being ready to release the reasonable effort platform agnostic version perl script that will run through the DC Locator process. Note that I intend for this to be a fairly robust script. It finds server (domain controller) site, client site, and next closest site. It polls the DCs validating them to […]

LDIF file for serviceConnectionPoint class for ADLDS

by @ Tuesday, March 19th, 2019. Filed under LDS, tech

So you are sitting around and suddenly want to put serviceConnectionPoint objects into your LDS instance and suddenly realize that they didn’t put the SCP objectclass definition in LDS nor is it an optional LDIF file to add… So I created one using ADSchemaAnalyzer from the ADLDS install… You can find it here http://www.joeware.net/miscdownloads/lds/20190319_serviceConnectionPoint.ldf and […]

Functional Anonymous DC Locator Platform Agnostic perl script… Getting close…

by @ Saturday, March 16th, 2019. Filed under general, perl

[Sat 03/16/2019 16:41:06.51] E:\DEV\perl\jwDCLocator>perl jwdclocator.pl /domain:k16tst.test.loc jwDCLocator V01.01.00pl  Joe Richards (support@joeware.net)  March 2018 Initializing Logging to logfile 20190316-1641-jwDCLocator.log… Reading configuration file jwDCLocator.config… Processing configuration file… Determining bootstrap domain controllers via DNS for k16tst.test.loc…   BootStrap Hosts: k16tst-dc2.k16tst.test.loc k16tst-dc1.k16tst.test.loc k16tst-scdc1.k16tst.test.loc Dynamically determining site…   Sending LDAP Ping to LDAP://k16tst-dc2.k16tst.test.loc:389…   AutoDetected Server Site             : Site2   […]

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