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Running AdFind in an iterative script

by @ Monday, October 29th, 2012. Filed under tech

If you find that you are running AdFind in an iterative script, say digging up some given attribute for some large list of objects, try using the -DLOID switch. This tells AdFind NOT to download parts of the schema to help with decoding various attributes. You should notice a pretty decent speed increase since you […]

Forcing replication of SYSVOL via NTFRS

by @ Thursday, October 18th, 2012. Filed under tech

I have been asked this question something like four or five times by different people in the last three days who say they can’t seem to google the answer so here it is… ntfrsutl.exe forcerepl DestinationDC /r "Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)" /p SourceDC.domain.com   So if I have a PDC of JoePDC.joe.com and I […]

11 years and still going strong…

by @ Friday, October 5th, 2012. Filed under general

Rating 4.60 out of 5

1AM – 6AM AD Support Call Handling 101: I will find you and I will kill you…

by @ Friday, October 5th, 2012. Filed under humour

A friend sent me a humourous email today, I felt I should share…   From: SomeADDude  Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 12:01 PM To: joe Subject: Was it wrong of me to answer an AD support call last night like this? I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you […]

AD Wiki RFC

by @ Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012. Filed under general

Require registered user ids to add/edit content or no? Try it anonymous first and see if it goes pear shaped and then lock down if necessary? Comments or emails is fine, you know the drill. 🙂        joe Rating 3.50 out of 5

Chardonnay…

by @ Saturday, September 29th, 2012. Filed under quotes

Stuart: Hmm. Nice not to drink alone. Raj: Amen to that. Sometimes I pour a little chardonnay into my dog’s water bowl. Stuart: You’re kidding. Raj: She’s kind of a mean drunk, but what are you gonna do? Stuart: Cheers. Raj: Cheers.      – Big Bang Theory Rating 4.00 out of 5

In the beginning…

by @ Saturday, September 29th, 2012. Filed under quotes

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.   – Douglas Adams Rating 4.25 out of 5

Wiki update…

by @ Wednesday, September 26th, 2012. Filed under general

I haven’t forgotten… I am playing with the MediaWiki software actually right this second (well 2 minutes ago) and have decided to read a book on MediaWiki on Books24x7 so I understand it a little more. I don’t want something out on my webserver that I don’t have a fairly decent understanding of – especially […]

Tracking Applications in an Enterprise and their Infrastructure Requirements

by @ Monday, September 24th, 2012. Filed under general

If you had to set up a system to track applications in an Enterprise and their Infrastructure Requirements, say like they point to a specific DC or use specific domain IDs or a specific SMTP server or other things like that, what would you use? This would be something that Application owners/specialists could get into […]

Kerberos Skew > 5 minutes… You can probably still log on…

by @ Monday, September 17th, 2012. Filed under tech

I had intended, actually strike that, I had thought I had written a blog entry about the urban legends surrounding the dreaded 5 minutes of Kerberos skew. Basically it was to be a story around the fear everyone has about our clocks going outside of 5 minutes of skew and then never being able to […]

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