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Using Restricted Groups GPO for Domain Groups

by @ Friday, September 22nd, 2017. Filed under tech

DO NOT DO IT! JUST STOP! DON’T!!! NO!!! It is such a bad idea and it isn’t security. You want security, clean up access rights so the wrong people can’t modify the groups in the first place. If you don’t trust your admins, you need to fire them and get admins you do trust. Here […]

NETDOM bug for /namesuffixes switch

by @ Friday, September 22nd, 2017. Filed under tech

A bit of a bug there Microsoft… [Fri 09/22/2017 22:50:53.57] C:\>netdom trust k16tst.test.loc /namesuffixes:k16tst2.test.loc    Name, Type, Status, Notes 1. *.hello.k16tst2.test.loc, Exclusion 2. *.k16tst2.test.loc, Name Suffix, Admin-Disabled 3. k16tst2.test.loc, Domain DNS name, Enabled 4. K16TST2, Domain NetBIOS name, Admin-Disabled, For k16tst2.test.loc 5. s-1-5-21-2034487785–2134286760–1379125265, Domain SID, Admin-Disabled, For k16tst2.test.loc The command completed successfully. VERSUS [Fri 09/22/2017 […]

Getting the DN of the parent of an object

by @ Thursday, May 11th, 2017. Tags:
Filed under general, tech

Do you remember how several years ago I added to AdFind the ability to display the parent of the object you searched for? Microsoft finally added that ability as well for any LDAP query as of Windows Server 2012 R2 and ADLDS for Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2. The attribute is called msDS-parentdistname. [Thu 05/11/2017  […]

AdFind -sslinfo

by @ Wednesday, May 10th, 2017. Tags:
Filed under general, tech

One of the new switches I have added to AdFind V01.50.00 is the –sslinfo switch. This is some functionality I have long wanted to have in AdFind because getting info about the certs the Domain Controllers (or ADLDS) is presenting can be very useful information, especially for troubleshooting. That being said this switch should probably […]

AdFind V01.50.00 Released

by @ Thursday, May 4th, 2017. Tags:
Filed under general, tech, updates

May the Fourth be with you.   I have uploaded the release version of AdFind V01.50.00 to the www.joeware.net web site. You can find it at: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind I have mentioned previously some of the updates, the big change was to change from using the Code Gear (Embarcadero previously Borland) Builder C++ to Visual Studio 2015 […]

AdFind close to the finish line…

by @ Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017. Filed under general, tech

I believe we will see AdFind released in the next few days. It seems to be very stable, I use it every single day for literally thousands of queries of a very large production Active Directory environments (millions of user accounts). Speed perfs are amazingly useful especially for the Security Descriptors. I got most of […]

Flash Back Friday

by @ Friday, April 28th, 2017. Filed under general, tech

  But the schema says description is multivalued… http://blog.joeware.net/2006/01/21/222/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

The Pollexy Project–Special Needs Voice Assistance

by @ Sunday, April 23rd, 2017. Filed under general, tech

I kept meaning to share this with everyone because I really want to get this video everywhere I can to get as much exposure as possible to it out in the world. Troy is a friend of mine that works for Amazon, he has a 16 year old son with Autism. See what cool thing […]

From the mailbag… I want to see the information going through the pipeline from one command to the next…

by @ Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Filed under general, tech

  Hi, Joe, I’ve been using these 2 excellent utilities to manage users both in our AD domain and our legacy Novell eDirectory tree. Recently I needed to move disabled accounts without our ‘KEEP’ flag set into a Leavers OU and came up with the 2 commands below: adfind -h novserver -ssl -sslignoresrvcert -simple -b […]

I LOVE YOUR FREE TOOLS but…

by @ Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Filed under general, tech

I am finally catching up on a lot of old email that I wasn’t able to get to, literally thousands of messages. I am quite happy with the number of people who find the tools useful saving them minutes or hours of time and the other comments of thanks we were told by MSFT this […]

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