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So unfortunately I had to make a change that I very much try to avoid making with my utilities, I modified the core behavior of one of the shortcuts. Certainly this is much less painful than changing core behavior of a switch but it is still painful. First… why do I avoid making core behavior […]

There are a whole slew of AdFind shortcuts added the last few versions specifically to assist people in using AdFind in FOR /F loops. Some of those shortcuts are dclist, gclist, domainlist, domainncssl, apppartsl, etc. For example… You need to loop through all of the DCs of your domain to execute an ldap query looking […]

I have been seeing a disturbing trend in email requests for help lately, well I should say the continuation of a disturbing trend I have been seeing in general the last few years. In particular, in the last couple of weeks I have seen no less than 6 or 7 questions of "How do I […]

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So while chatting with an admin this week he mentioned that his company synced data from their single domain forest into an external database with a primary key of sAMAccountName. This was a topic of interest for him because they had just learned it was possible to have two different objects in Active Directory with […]

Many moons ago I wrote a post about how a TechNet article on the default tombstone lifetime was wrong. That TechNet article eventually ended up getting corrected at some point though it doesn’t seem to be properly linked anymore to the GUID URL that I had for it – so much for theory of never […]