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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 […]

Started the port of AdMod from C++ Builder to Visual Studio 2017… This will be much more difficult and involved than AdFind, no room for mistakes in AdMod since it actually changes things. I need to get this done though, using DSACLS to update security descriptors in AD pisses me off every single time I […]

…AdFind V01.51.00. Rating 4.00 out of 5

When poking around today I found a comment I made on a post two years ago, I thought I would share it here as it is just as true today. …complexity kills. A lot of my work is around trying to figure out and fix stuff where people got too complex for the task at […]

Last Friday I wrote the email below and sent it to the Directory Services team (which I am the Technical Expert for). I have received some very positive feedback so I thought I would share the verbiage here as well because this really applies to every medium to senior level person in the business and […]

Be pragmatic: Everyone told the King of Swamp Castle that he was “daft to build a castle on a swamp,” and sure enough, his first attempt sank into the muck. “So I built a second one,” he says. “That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank […]