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A fellow MVP, Brian Desmond, suggested in a previous blog comment that I should “add a switch to filter inherited permissions”. I thought, hey, great idea… I can do better. 🙂 In AdFind V01.32.00 you will find the new switches -sddlfilter and -sddlNOTfilter. These switches allow you to specify a value for each of the […]

In the blog entry Bug in Microsoft LDAP API? I documented a pain in my side I ran into with ldap_search_init_page. As I mentioned in the comments I began a conversation with one of the smart Microsoft Dev folks, specifically a Dev who previously did LDAP Client and now is a core dev. I am not […]

adfind -sc exchaddresses:smtp Ex: F:\Dev\CPP\AdFind>adfind -sc exchaddresses:smtp AdFind V01.32.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) September 2006 Using server: 2k3dc10.child1.joe.com:3268Directory: Windows Server 2003 dn:CN=$jricha34,CN=Users,DC=joe,DC=com>proxyAddresses: smtp:$jricha34@joeware2.net>proxyAddresses: SMTP:$jricha34@joe.com dn:CN=Public Folder Store (2K3EXC01),CN=SG1,CN=InformationStore,CN=2K3EXC01,CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=joeware,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=com>proxyAddresses: smtp:2K3EXC01-IS@joeware2.net>proxyAddresses: smtp:2K3EXC01-IS@joeware2.com>proxyAddresses: SMTP:2K3EXC01-IS@joe.com dn:CN=Microsoft System Attendant,CN=2K3EXC01,CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=joeware,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=com>proxyAddresses: smtp:2K3EXC01-SA@joeware2.net>proxyAddresses: smtp:2K3EXC01-SA@joeware2.com>proxyAddresses: SMTP:2K3EXC01-SA@joe.com dn:CN=Public Folder Store (2K3EXC02),CN=SG1,CN=InformationStore,CN=2K3EXC02,CN=Servers,CN=Second Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=joeware,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=joe,DC=com>proxyAddresses: smtp:2K3EXC02-IS@joeware2.net>proxyAddresses: SMTP:2K3EXC02-IS@joe.com dn:CN=Microsoft System […]

…and boy did I find a heck of a memory leak in AdMod… I admit, this is probably on the unusual side for tasks people would normally be executing but just the same I am glad that I found it so I can stamp it out. So much for CodeGuard because it never once warned me […]

A common question I see is “How do I clear all sIDHistory values in a domain?”. Microsoft does have a script on the support web site to accomplish this, you can find it at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295758   I don’t have much direct experience with it but had folks that wanted me to modify it for them and heard […]

So under Virtual Server, something I did and liked doing was using differencing disks. I would build a base image, say BASE_LHRC1 and then I would build multiple machines from that one disk via differencing disks. I am not seeing the option to build any type of differencing disks in VMWARE Server 1.0.0. Am I […]

x64 DCs are slowing getting rolled out to various companies. Most often I am hearing amazing things from an LDAP query standpoint which is great. I am curious though how people are determining how many DCs they need? Are they just replacing their x86 DCs and leaving it at that or are they carefully watching […]

I seem to field a lot of questions on this though I am far from the expert here. However, here is my take on it… Warming the cache is not limited to x64 with giant DITs, it just happens to be something people like to force up front with x64 with large DITS because the […]

I appear to be a bug magnet. Using the product just a few days and bam… Ok so you will notice on my blog site I have an entry for interesting changes in E12. At the bottom of it I had a web link to the EHLO blog with the info… Only the link didn’t […]

The EHLO blog folks posted an interesting blog entry on some upcoming changes for E-12 that change how you provision users and also changes to the recipient policy mechanism (the RUS dies) and hurray, it looks like they might have gotten a clue with the property sets and put the Exchange attributes into Exchange specific […]