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I have added a text file in a semi-CSV format up on the website for current versions and release dates of the utilities. There is a link from the free tools page but you can go directly to it via http://www.joeware.net/freetools/versions.txt This is what it currently looks like Updated: 2010.02.18 — App,Version,Date accexp,01.01.00,2002.08.04 adfind,01.41.00,2010.02.13 admod,01.12.00,2010.02.13 […]

If you have Outlook 2010, install this bug fix… http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2010/02/12/fix-for-message-size-issue-in-outlook-2010-beta.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

Previously I announced that ADAM/ADLDS was available for Windows 7 client machines. Shortly after I announced that MSFT quietly pulled the product back off the download site due to some issue that they did not disclose. An issue critical enough though that they actually pulled the product. Anyway I just got confirmation from Microsoft today […]

Ten years ago today Active Directory was made publically available[1]. Been a long ten years and we have seen some cool/wonderful things and some sad/horrible things. Overall, looking good AD. 🙂    joe   [1] RTM was December 15, 1999. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Last time I looked, the Daemon ISO Mounting Tool didn’t work for Windows 7, just looked again today and now Windows 7 is supported and it actually works:   http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon Rating 3.00 out of 5

If you see any of these errors   You cannot open this document because we cannot set up your computer to open documents that have restricted permission.   The Rights Management client returned the following result code: 0x80004005(-2147467259).   The Rights Management client returned the following result code: E_DRM_SERVICE_NOT_FOUND.   The Rights Management client returned […]

There is an article on TechNet about the forest’s tombstone lifetime for Active Directory (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784932(WS.10).aspx) that was discussed on an internal MSFT DS Team / MSFT MVP email list. The discussion pointed out that there is a little confusion around the article. Specifically the confusion can come up around step 8 Note the value in […]

I have posted what I expect to be the final AdFind and AdMod beta before final release. http://www.joeware.net/downloads/beta/adfindmod_beta.zip   I am shooting for a mid-February release.   In the last 10 days most of the updates are in AdFind. Lots of misc shortcut bug fixes. Added some additional attribute decodes. One big item is that […]

Just don’t do it. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424329(WS.10).aspx From the article When a company acquires another company, business unit, or product line, the purchasing company may also want to acquire corresponding IT assets from the seller. Specifically, the buyer may want to acquire some or all of the domain controllers that host the user accounts, computer accounts, […]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187009/financial_firm_notifies_12m_after_password_mistake.html A Concord, New Hampshire, financial services company is sending data breach notification letters to customers after discovering that shared passwords, set up to simplify administrative functions nearly 10 years ago, could have exposed the private data of 1.2 million customers. Off the top of my head, every company I have ever seen does this […]