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If you previously saw my post on nuking AD Trees you saw me insert a piece that wasn’t really involved about my friend Brian Desmond trying to copy conflict objects from one Active Directory to another and hitting a bug in AdMod that wasn’t allowing it. Then I later commented that I fixed the  bug […]

If you send me an email asking for help saying that one of my utilities doesn’t work or you can’t get it to work, you need to specify in the body of the email what commands you actually tried. Period. End of Story. No more, "It doesn’t work, what do I type to get it […]

Ummm joe… it’s been two weeks (http://blog.joeware.net/2012/02/13/2429/)… what’s up?   Well something has happened that has pushed back the date a little, specifically http://blog.joeware.net/2012/02/29/2440/. So I am going through looking for things that should be decoded. Plus I dumped an entire new forest and I am looking at all attributes trying to determine what else […]

So I am looking through email and I find this We have never met but today I became aware of two of your utilities; ADFind and ADMod.  I think they might be able to save my job but I desperately need help please.  I simply am not technical enough to understand the switches. I’ve been […]

Windows Server 8 Beta RootDSE [Wed 02/29/2012 21:48:12.00] F:\Dev\cpp>adfind\release\adfind -rootdse AdFind V01.46.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) February 2012 Using server: WIN8DOM2-DC1.win8dom2.loc:389 Directory: Windows Server 8 dn: >currentTime: 20120301025803.0Z >subschemaSubentry: CN=Aggregate,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >dsServiceName: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=WIN8DOM2-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >namingContexts: DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >namingContexts: CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >namingContexts: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >defaultNamingContext: DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >schemaNamingContext: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >configurationNamingContext: CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom2,DC=loc >rootDomainNamingContext: DC=win8dom2,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] […]

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I was planning to release AdFind and AdMod today as per the normal yearly cycle but I am not quite happy with them yet so I am holding off for a little bit. I expect I should be releasing them within two weeks at the latest assuming nothing bad comes up.    joe Rating 3.00 […]

[Thu 02/09/2012 23:44:13.22] C:\>adfind -schema -f attributeid=1.2.840.113556.1.4.2066 attributeid 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 Base DN: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc dn:CN=ms-DS-Required-Domain-Behavior-Version,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=win8dom,DC=loc >attributeID: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.2066 1 Objects returned [Thu 02/09/2012 23:44:40.89] C:\>adfind -rootdse | grep 1.2.840.113556.1.4.2066 AdFind V01.46.00cpp **BETA** Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) January 2012 File STDIN: >supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.2066 [LDAP_SERVER_POLICY_HINTS_OID] […]

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 […]