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http://dloder.blogspot.com/2009/08/exchange-2010-rc1-and-adminsdholder.html This is just silly… Seriously. Allegedly products go through a security review, how did this make it past that? This isn’t the kind of thing that should be caught in testing as indicated by the first comment, this kind of thing should never have happened in the first place. It is, IMO, the result […]

http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2009/09/sending-e-mail-as-sms-or-text-message.html   Really useful answer by Michael W. on the Microsoft TechNet forums. If you want to send a text message from an e-mail client, most carriers allow you to do this. You send an e-mail message to number@emaildomain. For example, if you want to send a message to a T-Mobile user whose phone number […]

One of the alert joeware fans out there sent me a link to the following TechNet story that utilizes AdFind. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.09.sdadminholder.aspx While the article is a bit rough, for example sdprop isn’t responsible for AdminSDHolder[1] it is an ok article for a general sort of conceptual overview on how it works[2] and there is some […]

I have a PC that I don’t like much but have to use. I don’t like the software configuration on the machine but don’t have any real choices in the matter. I won’t go into it more than that… So today I am trying to get something done and as usual the machine is crawling […]

Alternate working title… The super cool PERL backup script I wrote in 1997 doesn’t work on Windows Server 2003 x64 *&(#%^&^# Back in the golden days of Windows NT 4 SP2 or maybe it was SP3 in or around 1997 by then I had a problem I had to solve with automatically backing up some […]

I recently received an email asking how to find old trusts. I sent back an AdFind query that will list all trusts and when they last had a password change. That query is adfind -default -rb cn=users -f "&(objectcategory=person)(name=*$)" pwdlastset -tdcd -sort pwdlastset The command looks in the user’s container of the default domain and […]

Just saw this in one of the private listservs that Microsoft DS PG and DS MVPs chat on, they said it could be shared…   Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Automate Metadata Cleanup Metadata cleanup is a required procedure after a forced removal of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You perform […]

Just a quick blog post. I am on vacation which is just a way of saying I am doing a whole ton of yard work around my place. I need a big front loader with a back hoe if anyone is feeling particularly giving. Or a bulldozer would be nice as well…  😀   Anyway, […]

This is an update I just added this week to AdMod that people may be interested in… Nope, sorry no scheduled release date though.   [Sat 08/01/2009 14:14:22.31] F:\Dev\Current\CPP\AdMod\Debug>adfind -e -default -f name=admod_test_group member AdFind V01.40.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) February 2009 Using server: TEST-DC1.test.loc:389 Directory: Windows Server 2003 Base DN: DC=test,DC=loc dn:CN=admod_test_group,OU=admod_test,OU=TestOU,DC=test,DC=loc 1 Objects returned […]

You may have read my other post on using the SID/GUID alternate formats for DNs for queries and my post last year on using alternate DN formats for binding and searching as well… Here is something else I recently learned that I thought was interesting. There are actually more alternate DN formats… All of these […]