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As more and more companies move forward with automated provisioning and automated password management and workflow an issue was found with tools like FIM that proxy the password change. I.E. You identify yourself to FIM and tell it to change the password for you, FIM uses the SET Password operation instead of the CHANGE Password […]
Previously we had a discussion on ActiveDir Org about using Tree Delete on an OU or other container with a large number of objects, specifically more than 16,000 or so objects (16384 to be even more specific). http://www.activedir.org/ListArchives/tabid/55/view/topic/postid/44636/Default.aspx MSDN Article about the error http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc223490(v=prot.10).aspx And an old blog post from me about the error http://blog.joeware.net/2007/06/01/905/ […]
I often get questions from people like “Why don’t you spend much time answering questions on Activedir.org anymore?” Answer 1: Please see my previous blog posts about the types of questions that have been asked of me in recent years and what I feel that means. (Like http://blog.joeware.net/2011/04/14/2238/) Answer 2: —–Original Message—– From: […]
We, as IT people in general and AD people in particular, often get dinged with the ubiquitous “quick question”. You all know what I mean, the “Hey I have a quick question” or “Hey do you have a second for a quick question” or most often just “Hey, got a sec?” as the person sits […]
So today I needed to test a script and as part of the test I needed to update a multi-value attribute on my own ID without admin rights. I wasn’t sure off the top of my head which attributes I could modify were multi-value so just told Active Directory to tell me… for /f %i […]
So another new file system supposedly coming out of Redmond… http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/17/microsoft-introducing-refs-file-system-with-windows-server-8/ or if you prefer a variety of articles http://bit.ly/wS2rhK Hopefully it will fix this type of issue… Rating 4.00 out of 5
Ok so looking at the stats on my blog I *KNOW* that there are people in Hawaii who read this thing… So when I see the following: which is up in Alaska, a place we all know to be really cold in the winter, and I compare that to which is the area I live […]
Pretend I have a full staff that can manipulate the images and web site content for a single day… Rating 4.50 out of 5
If you have ever had AdFind output CSV before *and* you sent that output into Excel[1] *and* one or more of the fields had embedded double quotes as part of the value you likely ran into an issue with how AdFind escapes the double quotes. The default for AdFind’s double quote escape character is "\" […]
F:\dev\cpp\AdFind\Release>adfind -rootdse AdFind V01.46.00cpp **BETA** Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) January 2012 Using server: WIN8Dom-DC1.win8dom.loc:389 Directory: Windows Server 8 Developer Preview dn: >currentTime: 20120116035246.0Z >subschemaSubentry: CN=Aggregate,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >dsServiceName: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=WIN8DOM-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >namingContexts: DC=win8dom,DC=loc >namingContexts: CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >namingContexts: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >defaultNamingContext: DC=win8dom,DC=loc >schemaNamingContext: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >configurationNamingContext: CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >rootDomainNamingContext: DC=win8dom,DC=loc >supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.319 [LDAP_PAGED_RESULT_OID_STRING] >supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.801 [LDAP_SERVER_SD_FLAGS_OID] >supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.473 [LDAP_SERVER_SORT_OID] >supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.528 [LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID] >supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.417 […]
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