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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 is now available on MSDN (subscription only of course)

by @ Monday, March 8th, 2010. Filed under tech

But why is there only an x86 version???    joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Oh now this is nice, Popular Science puts scanned archive online for free!

by @ Sunday, March 7th, 2010. Filed under tech

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/popular-science-puts-entire-scanned-archive-online-free/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

Truth be told… I didn’t really get a feel that was going to go anywhere anyway…

by @ Sunday, March 7th, 2010. Filed under tech

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/microsoft_unplugs_ebs/ Microsoft will halt development of its mid-market oriented Windows Essential Business Server software bundle, as the company bets on "cloud computing" rather than lump licensing to woo penny-pinching IT markets. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Handy WireShark Filter for looking at Kerberos ticket requests/responses

by @ Friday, March 5th, 2010. Filed under tech

kerberos.msg.type == 12 || kerberos.msg.type == 13 || kerberos.msg.type == 30 || kerberos.msg.type == 10 || kerberos.msg.type == 11 Rating 3.00 out of 5

Official Microsoft Blogs

by @ Monday, March 1st, 2010. Filed under tech

I was recently asked for a list of MSFT blogs, here you go!   http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/pages/directory-of-microsoft-team-blogs.aspx      joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

From the mailbag: How to change home directories en masse to a new server…

by @ Friday, February 26th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: Support Reuest Hi xxx, You won’t be able to do this with just usernames in a file with just adfind/admod, you would need a script to add the additional logic to look up the usernames and convert to DNs. However, if you have a list of […]

Load Balancing Domain Controllers

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

Recently a friend pinged me about what I thought about load balancing Domain Controllers behind some sort of VIP (Virtual IP) hardware be it from Brocade, Cisco, Barracuda, F5 or from whatever vendor. As a generic statement, I am against it. Period. Active Directory was built in such a way that the load balancing[1] and […]

From the mailbag… Finding groups with a certain string in the name

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:support@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: AdFind Hey xxx, you could do something like adfind -default -f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=*webmaster*) " -dn If you want to specify a domain other than the default, replace -default with -b domainDN    joe — O’Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition – http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm From: xxx Sent: xxx To: ‘support@joeware.net’ […]

From the mailbag… How to dump SMTP addresses for users in a group

by @ Friday, February 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

From: joe [mailto:joe@joeware.net] Sent: xxx To: xxx Subject: RE: ADFIND – Group + Members Query You can’t do this in one query, it will take at least two. First query would be to find the group and dump its memberof values. adfind -default –f "&(objectcategory=group)(name=groupname)" memberof The second query (or set of queries) would be […]

Useful Microsoft PKI Documentation Reference Page

by @ Thursday, February 18th, 2010. Filed under tech

PKI / Certificate Authority Information http://blogs.technet.com/pki/archive/2007/08/19/windows-pki-documentation-reference.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

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