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While working on the PPT Deck for DEC I was going through the slides that were put together almost entirely[1] by Dean and came across a slide on how to show container objectClass objects in the NEW context menu selection in ADUC – i.e. how to make it so you can create new container objects […]

I have been pinged by someone in the US Army asking if the joeware utilities are DOD approved. I have no clue. I do know I get a lot of email from military and US Government folks about using the tools and how to do various things. I unfortunately though, don’t keep all of those […]

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I recenty wrote this paragraph below. The context is a discussion on mismanagement of Active Directory in Enterprise companies. “In my dreams, one day, people will not consider AD a commodity or utility service. They will look at it as the integral piece of their corporate security and stability it truly is. AD often gets […]

Here are some cool techie propeller head things I have found recently. I am not endorsing them or saying I have used them, just found the links and they made me think hmmm, I need to check these out when I am not so busy and decided to share with all of you. 🙂   […]

I didn’t dig into this but wanted to give a heads up that when I used Windows Update this evening to apply the latest patches to my main XP machine after the reboot it would no longer talk to the domain properly and hence unable to log into the machine with a domain ID. This […]

Why is the Silverlight V1.0 install package coming down through Microsoft Update? Do any other companies get to send down IE plugins through Microsoft Update?   Just asking…      joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

This laptop was shown at a “mobility” conference… http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/05/hp_20inch_hdx_dragon_laptop_re.html   I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel lugging a 20″ flat panel with a full keyboard and media center remote around is mobile. Its more like transportable like the first Compaq portables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq) which I can tell you from first hand experience were […]

Handy blog article for troubleshooting services provided by SVCHOST. http://blogs.technet.com/ganand/archive/2007/12/23/how-to-isolate-a-service-in-its-own-scvhost-exe.aspx It also links to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056   Basically the idea is that some service executables have multiple services in them and they share a process when they start. There could be times you don’t want that to happen with SVCHOST because there is such a large […]

So I spoke a little too early on my last blog post about my new Western Digital MyBook World Edition. I ran into some huge issues with it, I haven’t gone looking for a firmware update yet but that is my next step. However, the issue I found shouldn’t be in any version of the […]