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Now this is really stupid, hope they have a fix in the works. http://blogs.technet.com/sus/archive/2008/09/03/wsus-windows-vista-clients-reboot-automatically-even-though-a-user-is-logged-on.aspx The idea is to shut off things that you don’t need and I would argue, successfully I think, that if you aren’t using remote desktop to control a machine, it doesn’t need to be running. I don’t care if the WUA […]

Recently in working with Laura Hunter on my Technical Review of Active Directory Cookbook 3rd Edition, I mentioned that AdFind and AdMod could be used together to do a smart™  update of bit flag attributes. She was a bit surprised so I figured I would mention it here as well for everyone. But first let’s […]

Familar with Service Connection Point objects? This is an object in AD that is published by various services so people/processes can find them. For example, by default ADAM will publish a service connection point object in AD so you can easily track down the instances, it will look something like dn:CN={04c817c7-46a4-4a0e-b258-c2bd69c00f78},CN=2K3UTL01,CN=Computers,DC=test,DC=loc>objectClass: top>objectClass: joeware-ServerClass>objectClass: leaf>objectClass: connectionPoint>objectClass: […]

Imagine that… http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/svvp.html   PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept 3, 2008 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is the […]

Got this in the inbox… Hi Joe, Thanks great tool. One quick question, I’m using CPAU to run a vbscript under a different user id however I was wonder if there was an easy way to pass parameters back to the calling application without having to give the “runas” account a lot of local access […]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html   Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. Rating 3.00 out of 5

So who here likes to run ADAM on their client PCs? Who would like to run the Windows Server 2008 version of ADAM on Vista? Yeah me too. Microsoft was stupid and didn’t make it so Windows Server 2008 ADAM could be installed on the Client OS. Extremely shortsighted. Extremely silly. So what we need […]

In reference to the previous MSFT Virtualization platform validation post http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/081908-vmware.html There doesn’t seem to be any official announcement, but a Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday that VMware has joined Microsoft’s Server Virtualization Validation Program. This means that VMware will try to get its hypervisor certified by Microsoft, and once that happens Microsoft will offer technical […]

I want to see your name on this list… http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

How do you get [ADSI] as a shortcut for System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry()???? Seriously. From MSDN What is ADSI? Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) is a set of open interfaces that abstract the capabilities of directory services from different network providers to present a single view for accessing and managing network resources. Administrators and developers can use ADSI […]