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Slowly getting there… For the blog, it should always force to a scheme of https://. The main website will still come up as http:// by default. You can specify the scheme https://www.joeware.net if you are concerned. Trying to force it with .htaccess like I have done with the blog is blowing up the downloads for […]

I have received some emails asking why this blog is considered insecure by Chrome. This is a new configuration from the latest version of Chrome to mark any website that isn’t using HTTPS: / SSL Encryption as insecure. Nothing has changed from my end, the site isn’t suddenly insecure. It is the same as it […]

Unfortunately after nearly 17 years (first awarded October 2001) of being re-awarded the MVP Award year over year for an ever name changing space around Windows Server Directory Services I was not awarded this year. While the book, blog, and tools are as popular as ever and the questions continue to roll into my inbox […]

Years ago, 13 years ago specifically, I wrote a post about people who allow non-expiring service / application / generic IDs. If you care to read what I wrote before please see http://blog.joeware.net/2005/05/08/10/ I did not have good things to say about non-expiring IDs then and I have even less good things to say about […]

I picked up SnagIt some time ago and I didn’t initially use it very much because it felt a bit overwhelming next to the built-in simple Snipping Tool but I recently forced myself to sit down with it and sort it out and I am glad I did because it is absolutely awesome. I totally […]

As I find myself digging through the AdMod source code adding functionality and fixing small bugs here and there I realize that someone much smarter than I wrote the original version. And paradoxically I am the only one who has ever seen, let alone touch, this source code… Back when writing a lot of this […]

AdMod work is coming along nicely… E:\DEV\cpp\vs\AdMod\Debug>adfind -hh . -partitions -s base -alldc AdFind V01.51.00cpp Joe Richards (support@joeware.net) October 2017 Using server: elitebook:389 Directory: Windows Server 2016 ADLDS Base DN: CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,CN={8B255D0C-7730-457D-9A5E-82920B5A0B85} dn:CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,CN={8B255D0C-7730-457D-9A5E-82920B5A0B85} > objectClass: top > objectClass: crossRefContainer > cn: Partitions > distinguishedName: CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,CN={8B255D0C-7730-457D-9A5E-82920B5A0B85} > instanceType: 4 [WRITABLE(4)] > whenCreated: 2017/02/05-15:56:25 Eastern Standard Time > […]

…AdMod just compiled start to finish under Visual Studio 2017… Only 3 evenings of fixing compiler errors and linker errors! I mean the code base is a lot smaller than AdFind (I like it smaller because it is doing more critical things, naming changing stuff in AD), but still I expected at least a full […]