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I received my complementary copy of Active Directory Fourth Edition today and noted that it is now IN STOCK on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Active-Directory-Designing-Deploying-Running/dp/059652059X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227681383&sr=8-1   My version of the book is now officially dead. :o(   At some point possibly Brian will outline what is different about his edition of the book. It will most likely be […]

If I already have administrative or extremely privileged rights on a box, an “exploit” that can do things to the kernel is just a normal bug… Don’t get too excited about it.   I am talking about this article… http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=10415 Rating 3.00 out of 5

When I heard about the naming of the Windows OSes following version numbers I was pretty excited…. Gone were Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows 95/98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, etc. Long live Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9, etc. Imagine my chagrin as I start reading that the […]

I was asked a question this week about how to “batch script” the use of nslookup to test looking up a specific hostname. The “tricky” part was that the person wanted to use a specific DNS server instead of the default for the machine. The person was shocked by my response so I thought I […]

Very serious patch came out from Microsoft today. Unless you are running Vista or Windows Server 2008 anyone, and I mean anyone, who can touch the RPC port on your machine can hurt you. Be safe, go to Microsoft or Windows Update and update your machines now. Or if you are an IT type you […]

More comments on the Active Directory Services Team blog concerning Lag Sites. My friend Guido, probably one of the top guys in the industry in terms of understanding the backup/recovery solution space for Active Directory stepped up and commented as well. He didn’t even know I had left a comment and later pinged me and […]

Yes! I hit a milestone in AdFind V01.38.00…. I got it to compile under Code Gear C++ Builder 2009. This was quite an accomplishment as there have been some serious changes in that compiler from Borland C++ Builder 6.0 (circa 2002) which was the last compiler that I was using for it. Mostly the issues […]

Over on the “Ask the Directory Services Team” blog there is a post about Lag Sites. I really disliked what was written and left a nice long comment. I am not sure if it will be posted or not and I also wanted to reach folks with my comments about lag sites that possibly don’t […]

…because yesterday I ordered the new Code Gear Builder Pro 2009 compiler/IDE and I paid for it in part with PayPal donations from some of you folks. I greatly appreciate the donations and as you can see just roll it right back into producing more products. While I could start using the Visual Studio suite […]

This was an outstanding post and I thought should be copied here…   From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org On Behalf Of Don HacherlSent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:52 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegating Start/Stop Service on DCs Years ago I worked with a “domain admin qualified” person at Microsoft who fat fingered the admin UI and deleted a […]