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I was pinged today about some emails sent to Microsoft that were NDR’ed with messages seemingly from a Postfix mailer. The “sender” was a bit confused as they though Postfix was for *nix… While it is possible for Postfix to run on Windows, it would be pretty unusual. The fact that the NDRs were to […]

Microsoft Corp. did an about-face yesterday, agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and anti-spyware programs. [snip] The company said that blocking the core of area of the operating system was also meant to enhance the performance […]

A user in one of the newsgroups I frequent ran into an issue with some LDAPS code that was leaking memory on him. You can view the entire thread by clicking here. The summary is that the user was writing some LDAP API code and submitting one of the LDAP Options, specifically LDAP_OPT_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE session option […]

There was a posting in the public newsgroups the other day concerning using whenChanged and/or modifyTimeStamp for tracking changes for an object so I thought I would say a few words about it… Before I say anything though, lets look at the schema definitions:   F:\>adfind -sc s:whenchanged AdFind V01.32.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) October 2006 […]

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I saw this article today http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061003_871186.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives which is about how McAfee and Symantec are pissed that Microsoft is locking down the OS from people hacking it. Me personally, I don’t mind of they go out of business, I don’t use either of their products; neither one has done anything I would even start to consider […]

I talk about Ethereal a lot because I believe it is an extremely useful tool. If you don’t know, it is a network “sniffer” utility. I.E. It captures network packets for display or analysis. I love the tool, I used to use Microsoft’s NetMon but several years ago found Ethereal and slowly stopped using NetMon. […]

Well DesktopStandard has been acquired by Microsoft which means Darren Mar-Elia is off and running with his own startup full time now. http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/gpoguy/archive/2006/10/02/DesktopStandard-acquired-by-Microsoft.aspx I have known Darren quite a while now. I first met him in an official meeting where he, in his capacity as the CTO of Quest, was trying to sell a customer […]

http://www.betanews.com/article/VMware_Releases_New_Converter_Tool/1159809766 Tool to convert physicals to VMWARE images, also converts other virtualization images to VMWARE format.     joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

I don’t do a whole lot of playing with AD Backup/Restore ops and authoritative restores, I am a big fan of building systems such that they don’t allow people to delete objects accidentally in the first place. However, I have been working on a project that has as a portion of the work some user […]