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I have been working on AdFind and AdMod again. I wanted to get a few things fixed that have bothered me and heard some interesting ideas for some new features that I have encountered. The more I go back to it the more I wish I had the time to perform a complete rewrite. It […]

Back in the day I would configure special entries in the proxyAddresses attribute for users to denote some specific info that I needed to capture regarding mail systems, in particular this was around some mail routing type items that was intended to be used by non-MSFT systems looking at Exchange users. I would use a […]

My main server got its system disk scrambled over thanksgiving break due to some power issues. I am not sure what exactly happened as I was a couple of hundred miles away but I came home to clocks blinking and computers shut down. My media center unfortunately lost its DVD drive. One of my laptops […]

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This one isn’t from my personal inbox but from a thread on ActiveDir Org a little while ago. I wanted to post it to the blog as well because I actually think I get a little wider audience here and this blog seems to be popular with the search engines and this is good info […]

I received an email the likes of which I have seen a few times over the last few years and figured I would share the issue and my response. The issue is someone who has a bunch of machines scattered around a very large environment and they really don’t know what domain those machines are […]

Hi I came across your free tools and think these tools are very much what any administrator needs but it seems that when i downloaded this utility it does nothing. Command box opens and disappears in flash of a second.  I am running Windows 7, any idea? Any help would much appreciated. Thanks xxx IT […]

A notorious rootkit that for years has ravaged 32-bit versions of Windows has begun claiming 64-bit versions of the Microsoft operating system as well. The ability of TDL, aka Alureon, to infect 64-bit versions of Windows 7 is something of a coup for its creators, because Microsoft endowed the OS with enhanced security safeguards that […]

On a regular basis I will say some tool or app or something requires DFL2 or DFL3 or FFL2 or something like that, I am amazed still how many people do not know what that means and I get a response of “huh? I don’t think I have that tool.” or “I typed in DFL2 […]