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Surprised how many people still aren’t aware of Security Essentials, the free Microsoft AV software. http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials Rating 3.00 out of 5

This is something that people occasionally want to do. There are two basic answers that I am aware of. The first I always remember right off since I am an LDAP API coder, is to look at the dnsHostName attribute of the rootdse of the server you are connected to. That is what AdFind and […]

Not sure if I shared this before… A nice little post of Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Feature Components in PDF format. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Feature Components Rating 3.00 out of 5

Anyone get this working? I keep blowing up when installing the ActiveX components or if I get through the install it just hangs on checking connection. I actually need this working to get to the network of one of my customers. Rating 3.00 out of 5

http://www.codeplex.com/PAL Haven’t used it but it looks like it could be cool. 🙂 Brian told me about it. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Something that always annoys me is when I look at an Active Directory and start finding old Domain Controller Server objects out in the sites container for DCs that were demoted or forcibly removed from Active Directory weeks, months, or years ago. This is just sloppy admin work but once it is done and hasn’t […]

This is probably obvious to some but thought I would write it up for those it wasn’t obvious for… Sometimes when you look at a group in AD or ADAM, you see foreignSecurityPrincipal (FSP) objects in the membership. These aren’t generally, for most people anyway, quick to be resolved to friendly names so maybe you […]

I received an email with a script to clear the pwd_not_reqd flag that the author said he meant to post as a comment but couldn’t (old posts don’t allow comments anymore to slow down on spam). The post was http://blog.joeware.net/2006/06/29/431/ Fortunately, you don’t need a script to do this, it is a one liner with […]

This is quick and easy with AdFind and AdMod… You just have to find the users, pipe their DN and sAMAccountName to AdMod and tell it to do a rename… Like so adfind –b ou=someou,dc=domain,dc=com -f "&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(name=*,*)" samaccountname –adcsv | admod –rename {{samaccountname}} –upto 1000 That command self limits itself to only modifying up to […]

Who would have thunk it??? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jul09/07-20linuxqa.mspx “Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux […]