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by @ Friday, September 14th, 2012. Filed under general

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Miscellaneous facts about computer passwords in Active Directory and the computers that love them… err I mean join the domains…

by @ Wednesday, September 12th, 2012. Filed under tech

Pre-Creating Computer Accounts When you create a machine account in Active Directory via ADUC (DSA.MSC), by default Windows generates a random (possibly, perhaps even probably non-printable) password for the computer account. If you select the “Assign this computer account as a pre-Windows 2000 computer” it takes the sAMAccountName, removes the trailing $ and then takes […]

REALLY Slow GPO application on Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2

by @ Wednesday, September 12th, 2012. Filed under tech

If you have a Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine that goes really slow for GPO application (like tens of minutes or even hours) and the network trace looks something like   I.E. Read AndX Request and Response with small values like 2-4 bytes over and over again until it gets through […]

Power Searching with Google

by @ Tuesday, September 11th, 2012. Filed under general

For anyone interested, here is a link to some free training on using and becoming more efficient with Google search called Power Searching with Google. http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/09/power-searching-with-google-is-back.html Rating 3.00 out of 5

Just for clarity… The BufferPolicyReads value doesn’t exist in anything but Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2.

by @ Monday, September 10th, 2012. Filed under tech

I was digging into an issue and saw lots of search result hits around HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and the BufferPolicyReads value in particular all referring back http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319440 and some of them mentioned making the change on Domain Controllers and some of them mentioned making the change on Vista and/or Windows 7. I just peeked at the […]

Server Manager (Not Responding)

by @ Saturday, September 8th, 2012. Filed under tech

This should be the near permanent title bar string for Server Manager…. Server Manager (Not Responding) Rating 4.50 out of 5

Barf…

by @ Saturday, September 8th, 2012. Filed under tech

    I have determined that the new strategy to get people to move to powershell is to make the GUI experience so damn slow and bad you couldn’t possibly get any work done if you try to go that route. Rating 4.33 out of 5

New Kindle Fires!

by @ Friday, September 7th, 2012. Filed under general

New Kindle Fire’s available plus the "original" version (though faster) has been marked down to $159. 7" Original but faster version – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083Q04IQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0083Q04IQ&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 7" HD – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGCAVM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GGCAVM&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 8.9" HD – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFRB9E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GFRB9E&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 8.9" HD with 4G – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFRBBW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GFRBBW&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 Rating 4.00 out of 5

Poll on the understanding of how Machine Account Joins and Machine Account Password Changes work under the covers

by @ Friday, September 7th, 2012. Filed under tech

I am looking into an issue related to the subject, the background functioning of Domain Join (which involves setting the computer account password in the domain) and also Computer Account Password Changes in general. My understanding, which appears to possibly be flawed now based on some lab testing is that computer account password changes are […]

New Active Directory Replication Status Tool

by @ Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Filed under tech

Just found out about this, haven’t had a chance to look at it. Trying to recover from vacation still. 🙂   http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/08/23/ad-replication-status-tool-is-live.aspx     joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

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