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I am slowly working my way through email and ran into a question that I seem to get rather often and the answer actually bothers me. The email asked: “Quick question. What all attributes do I have to give a user permission to in order to set the password when creating an account? I can […]

This question comes up so often I decided to write a little something something on it so I can point people at it instead of rewriting the answer. So let’s say the questions comes in like Question: How do I query AD for all users (or objects or whatever) that don’t have “Allow inheritable permissions […]

Back last May I talked about building my latest desktop PC. It was entry – http://blog.joeware.net/2006/05/15/371/ One of the pieces of hardware was an HP DVD840 which looked to be pretty good and it was a decent price, something like $80 or something like that from Amazon or NewEgg which I felt was a decent […]

There is a company called ScriptLogic which makes various tools including various AD Management and Security tools. I have never really looked into them as they have nothing that calls to me that I couldn’t just put together myself or already have put together for myself. In a recent set of newsgroup posts though a […]

Just wanted to follow up on Google Picasa. I used it heavily over Christmas weekend to search through my images to find various pics to put together on little creative things I was making (cards, coupons, etc). I have some 40,000 plus images on my machine, Picasa was rocket fast. The one complaint was that […]

http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm Since Microsoft opened the format for the VHD, WinImage (Shareware) now supports it. Rating 3.00 out of 5

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8M3IJ003.htm Anyone with an Internet connection will soon be able to get three-dimensional maps of the moon, or real-time tracking of the space shuttle, after NASA agreed Monday to give more of its imagery and information to Google Inc. … Rating 3.00 out of 5

Ever hear that one? Of course the problem is that some user was granted admin on their laptop and they went and did something silly with that power and then when they try to hook back up to work they realize they don’t have the necessary rights to fix it… That seems to be a […]

Received an email today from someone who loved AdFind, to paraphrase the note   AdFind rocks! How the heck do I do Tab Delimited CSV output? Err duh. My bad… I thought I put that in the usage and didn’t or must have commented it or must have been dreaming of all of the above. […]

Just one reason I tell people that virtualization of Domain Controllers in production scares me… This is a post from one of the Microsoft newsgroups. As more and more people move to virtualizing their DCs I expect to see more and more of this. Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory Hi, Due to a VMWare problem the local time […]