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It has been almost 11 years since Windows 2000 and Active Directory hit the world and apps are still having issues. At this point I just want to look at vendors and say “Seriously??? Figure it out already.”. So I am just going to start typing issues that I have encountered that by now shouldn’t […]

The other day I had an IM conversation that went sort of like: AD Engineer [12:37 PM]: I’ve got a puzzler here… you around?  I know it’s lunchtime Richards, Joe (Active Directory) [12:37 PM]: what up dog? AD Engineer [12:38 PM]: lol k in ADUC, tool of champions, I see a count Richards, Joe (Active […]

For the longest time Gil’s book Active Directory Programming has been out of print and to buy it would cost you a couple of hundred dollars… That is pretty steep for the book although it is a good book. Well I just looked on Amazon today for someone else and found that there are several […]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/02/international-space-station-marks-ten-years-of-continuous-habita/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/accwp.php?ref=dj4 The book does require registration, but there’s no corporate sponsor – so there’s no associated spamming Rating 3.00 out of 5

I think this could seriously rock.   http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/13/apples_anti_sexting_patent_generating_big_buzz.html Apple patents are a dime a dozen but one discovered this week is grabbing the attention of even the largest media conglomerates because it appears as if it could be used by parents to prevent their children from participating in sexually-explicit text message conversations. Rating 3.00 out […]

I have been re-awarded and that makes me very happy. The MVP program is something I am quite proud to be part of and very appreciative of the resources it makes available to me such as Windows Source Code, Microsoft Product Group folks, and other MVPs. I have met a lot of great people through […]

It seems that my ISP made some sort of change somewhere and the downloads on my website broke for most of yesterday (September 15). I wanted to apologize to everyone for any inconvenience and say it should all be up and working fine now. 🙂   The story for anyone who cares… Just before going […]

One of the problems with AD Permissions is that AD is sort of like a garage or attic. You start out with a solid plan for organization and how things will be positioned. However over time you put something[1] here, you stack something[1] there, you push something[1] back into the corner over there all with […]

I just had to gather stats on how many utility downloads I have so I thought I would share. Sadly I don’t have stats going all the way back to 2001. In March 2007 I changed ISPs. When I did so, I neglected to take the data portion of the downloads with me so lost […]