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Now I know that title caught your attention… Why? Because most of the folks reading this blog do something with Active Directory and this is a pain point in AD. An unnecessary pain point in my opinion, but a pain point none-the-less. I bring it up because Tim Springston from PSS (or CSS, whatever you […]

You may recall that McAfee started listing CPAU as an virus last year, now Trend Micro has jumped on board as well. I just received an email today that V01.11.00 was identified as TROJ_GENERIC.ZA starting with pattern 4.309.00 which the user received today. I have emailed Trend to see if they intend this or it […]

The online platform SDK MSDN Library has sort of been turned into a Wiki… I was poking around looking at Schema definitions to see if there was any new info explaining some of the attributes and at the bottom of an attribute I noticed a little button that says “Add New Community Content”….. Very cool… […]

So you have been thinking about updating your computers for the DST changes this year… Did you remember to update your Windows Mobile devices? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/default.mspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

I have been running more and more power hungry virtuals and finally had to load up some SQL Servers (I don’t like SQL Server the app[1]). This called to attention that I needed to use more than my older hardware for running virtuals so I ordered the materials to make Super Fast Virtual Mofo…. SFVM. […]

I recently mentioned the beauty of Phantom Root and how you can use it to search all of the NCs on a DC in a single fell swoop. This works great but I stumbled upon a slight oddity. I am discussing it with the MSFT DS Dev team as there is some debate/question on exactly […]

I was working on some additional functionality for AdFind to decode the replication metadata in a little more readable format than the default XML format you get with msDS-ReplAttributeMetaData and ran into an issue with DS_REPL_ATTR_META_DATA_BLOB. The structure is defined on MSDN – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms676250.aspx It looks like typedef struct {DWORD oszAttributeName;DWORD dwVersion;FILETIME ftimeLastOriginatingChange;UUID uuidLastOriginatingDsaInvocationID;USN usnOriginatingChange;USN […]

Dana says it very well here… http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001001.html  I agree with him, the UAC stuff was extremely obtrusive in the beta phases and *might* get annoying when initially setting up a new PC if you are loading a ton of stuff but honestly, it hasn’t really bothered me since Beta2. That beta was rough and I actually […]

I posted yesterday about AdFind being on the bench and I received a couple of emails. One of the emails came from a friend who now works for MSFT. The core of the note was In ADFind, could you also have a switch to tell you the size of the ntSecurityDescriptors attribute? I’ve noticed quite a few applications […]

In the last couple of months, I found myself in a position where I could only access a domain controller through a reverse proxy port redirector and was simply redirecting port 389. This adds some level of difficulty to doing some things since AD isn’t strictly LDAP based. There is quite a bit of stuff […]