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I get a lot of questions regarding the availability of source code for my joeware utilities. I am not sure why, I thought I have been pretty clear on the web pages for the tools: Source Code Availability           None I think that is clear. I tried to keep it simple and concise. Despite this […]

I finished V01.00.00 of PSOMgr yesterday. PSOMgr is a command line utility I built to help manage Fine Grain Password Policy Password Settings Objects that are present in Longhorn Server Active Directory. I also set it up to manage Domain Password Policy Settings as well. If you didn’t read my previous info on FGPP then […]

Sony Corp. said on Thursday it planned to start selling ultra-thin TVs using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology this year, aiming to become the first to market with a TV using the promising next-generation display. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2113456,00.asp   If you aren’t familiar with OLED, it is the technology that currently exists that allow you to basically […]

The world famous Directory Experts Conference will be going on in Las Vegas (well just outside of Las Vegas) in one week. The festivities officially start on Sunday morning with a Longhorn Workshop where the newest joeware utility will make its public debut – PSOMgr – the one and only tool currently available for easily managing […]

Not sure whether to put this under humour or tech. I chose tech because I am likely the only one laughing. I have been working on a new command line tool to manage PSO’s. Tonight I was testing some of the basic components to make sure I could move forward to some of the cooler […]

I am playing with a new utility I was challenged to write at the latest MVP Summit. It is a command line utility to manage msDS-PasswordSettings objects and I ran into a weird issue where one of my GC queries wasn’t finding what I thought it should be finding. So as a point of first […]

…is generally a very bad idea. Why, because in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 AD, objectClass is not, by default, indexed. What does that mean you ask? It means that your query is going to be way slow because it has to look at every single object in the search scope of the query […]

So you are in a spaceship…. In interstellar space… Obviously you have no nearby points of reference…. Say maybe stars light-years away…. Is your spaceship moving? Yes? No? How do you authoritatively know without nearby external points of reference that allow you to track your motion? Rating 3.00 out of 5

One of the more secret but possibly hottest new features of Longhorn Server is now “out of the closet”. It is something that has been in the last couple of customer preview versions of Longhorn available up on MSDN and blog entries from Microsoft and other parties are starting to pop up. Rumors have abounded for months […]

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