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I am about sick to death of running into LDAP apps that need hardcoded host names. What the hell is wrong with you people? There is a perfectly good RFC out there for locating LDAP Services (as well as other services) that works quite well and you still refuse to use it. FYI, if you […]

I meant to do this last December/January but it just wouldn’t come up on the “I have time to do” list. Well my XP Media Center started acting really weird with stuttering sound the last few days and acting like it was out of resource but it had plenty of CPU, RAM, and disk IOPS […]

I mentioned this tool previously. I was one of the lucky bastards who received a copy of it a long time ago and used it exclusively for managing the Virtual Server I have (mostly because it is great but also because my IIS VS Management Console melted down). Now everyone can have it. 🙂 http://blogs.technet.com/matthts/ […]

For anyone running Trend AV products I have to say a heartfelt “I’m sorry”. Not for anything I have done, but because Trend is reporting CPAU as a virus again with 4.583.02. I came home to _many_ emails describing the problem, thanks to everyone who took the time to write. Several mentioned opening tickets with Trend […]

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I always chuckle when I or someone else mentions a feature of AdFind (or really any of the utilities from my website) and then someone else who uses it regularly says “Wow, I didn’t know it did that…”. This has happened a couple of different times in a couple of different forums. Well in the […]

I had no idea that Jerold retired, I just stumbled upon the fact when going to get a link for his web page for another blog entry. I saw this announcement: http://www.jsiinc.com/aboutJSI.htm  I am just shocked by this… I’m being selfish but the site has been such a mainstay in my life the last 10 or so […]

It seems the last couple of weeks have been heavy security weeks for me. Dealing with all sorts of security issues that quite frankly, never should have been issues to begin with but I think the knowledge level of Windows Security and how Windows works[1] is so poor in general that stupid things that never […]

How come I can’t configure Windows such that all AT scheduled tasks run as a specific userid or security principal? Why is it automatically going to run as the most powerful security principal on the machine? At least under NT4 we could set the scheduler service up to run as some other ID and it […]

Then consider trying this following command (all one line) and testing how everything works. If you find something bad that happens in Windows, let me know so I can feed that info back to the people who need to know. adfind -schema -f objectcategory=attributeschema searchflags -adcsv | admod -unsafe searchflags::{{.:SET:512}} -cont I have done this […]