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Hey! Sorry for the darkness. AdFind is NOT dead, I am still developing it. I have a bunch of fixes in it that I started back in December 2023 including stuff for Windows Server 2025 that I just haven’t wrapped all up to release. I have actually bumped it to two minor versions too so […]

I love winget… Full stop. But do not use winget on Windows Server 2025 and then try to sysprep it. It will break. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/setup-upgrade-and-drivers/sysprep-fails-remove-or-update-store-apps#cause for how to back out so you can sysprep it.    joe Rating 4.25 out of 5

Dear everyone out there still working with Active Directory (so most all large orgs and Security Vendors and other Software Vendors), please stop writing whenChanged or uSNChanged based AD Sync methods for your applications. Those may be fine (still bad) for some small company with 1-2 domain controllers but they are utter crap for large […]

AdFind updates for 2025 (and other things) is under way. Thirty something builds or so since the last publicly released version of AdFind. [Sun 11/03/2024 14:05:12.57] D:\DEV\cpp\vs\AdFind\Debug>adfind -appver AdFind V01.64.00cppBETA Joe Richards (support@joeware.net) November 2024   BUILD    : 1.64.0.6206_DEBUG   BUILDDATE: 20241103-14:03:46 EST x86 VS2022   WIN32  PATH: D:\DEV\cpp\vs\AdFind\Debug\AdFind.exe   NATIVE PATH: \Device\HarddiskVolume4\DEV\cpp\vs\AdFind\Debug\AdFind.exe [Sun 11/03/2024 […]

A colleague from my HP days (neither he nor I work for HP anymore) reached out to me to ask for clarification on the joeware licensing for use WITHIN a company, specifically the company he works for now. He wasn’t asking for you and your company, I mean, he is a terribly great nice person […]

…Microsoft, you have become so damn annoying with Windows Defender and other things that I am looking to turn it off permanently because I, not you, gets to be the arbiter of what I want on my machine and if I say leave this on my machine, I shouldn’t have to retell you over and […]

I released V01.62.00 last night to fix a crash bug introduced in V01.61.00 from integrating some of the joe only private ldap query tool functionality because some of the core functionality was different enough to be problematic. If you ran into that crash bug, my deepest apologies.     joe Rating 4.67 out of 5

I just performed the final compiles and final commits for AdFind V01.61.00, AdMod V01.28.00, and joe’s private LDAP query tool because MSFT has their head up their ass in going after AdFind and I need a tool around that doesn’t just disappear when they decide to take it because they know better than anyone else […]

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The first bit is of course wrong, AdFind cannot bypass any security in place. The second bit is of course right, AdFind is not malware despite what Windows Defender says. I expect this goes back to some person at Microsoft who doesn’t understand what software is nor how it works and has never, on their […]