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About a year ago I wrote a popular blog post about DN formats available in Active Directory. The article is here –> http://blog.joeware.net/2008/05/03/1226/. Great article if I can believe the feedback because it helps people set up their environment and apps in a more generic way that avoids some of the pitfalls of hardcoding DNs […]

I received an email a couple of months ago from someone looking to remove SIDs from a specific domain from the sIDHistory attribute of all of their users. Here is the response I sent   So the ability to remove SID’s from sIDHistory is very simple and basic, you basically have to supply the specific […]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970789/en-us A folder that is created under the root of the system drive is missing entries in its security descriptor, which may cause some application failures on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate In the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) 32-bit Ultimate, the folder that is created […]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd695919.aspx   .. Man, That C Is Sharp For the majority of my fifteen year career at Microsoft, I’ve been a systems and drivers developer. My language of choice and necessity has been a fairly bare bones C++. I rarely get to use runtimes like MFC and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Until recently, I couldn’t […]

I got this from Tony and I wanted to post it, looking at the site and trying to send email to the list it appears their ISP already chopped the lines…   Hi all The ISP that we have been using to host ActiveDir.org for the past 8 years is shutting down and we are […]

Another discussion recently popped up on AD Org about indexing the objectClass attribute. Don Hatcherl (previously mentioned on this blog multiple times – short and sweet, when he talks about AD, I and everyone else with any sense listens…) said the following about indexing objectClass… …An early version of ESE (the one shipped in Exchange […]

I have spoken about this tool before. The old version I have is hands down the best file copy app out there. I expect this newer version that is now publicly available is just as good… Thanks to Scott C for letting me know this was now out there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx      joe Rating 3.00 […]

PS C:\Documents and Settings\$joe.TEST> cd\The term ‘cd\’ is not recognized as a cmdlet, function, operable program, or script file. Verify the term and try again.At line:1 char:3+ cd\ <<<< Rating 3.00 out of 5

So who is going to TEC? Excited yet? You should be, it will be fun. Personally, I can’t wait to hear Dmitri, Brett, and yes, even Dean, speak. Those guys are incredibly bright and just plain know a lot of stuff. The weather in Vegas is slated to be in the low 70’s and sunny. […]

One of the things I love about the MVP summit is getting together with really smart people and discussing various deployment architectures. One of the topics of conversation during a get together at the Experience Music Project social event was a discussion about how to make a high visibility public web site based on Windows […]