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You are like WTF joe!!! You just released a new version of ADFIND yesterday! Why yes, yes I did. Today I am releasing another version. So there. Basically I was sitting there minding my own business and one of my MCS friends IM’ed me out of the blue asking why he couldn’t do -up *. […]

Do you have an ASUS P4C800 motherboard? Does it have more 3GB or more of RAM installed? Does it POST more than 2943MB? Email me or please comment. If you have that configuration and you noticed it didn’t POST the RAM properly either also email or comment. When I bought memory for my new laptop […]

I recently got an email about a KB that was written up by an MVP about one of my tools – ADFIND. Actually I have never gotten so much email about something someone else has written that people want me to help them with. Serves me for putting my email address in my program banner […]

I previously mentioned that you should index the objectclass attribute if you haven’t done so. My friend ~Eric called me out on it and said the logic given was poor. He is correct, the logic I stated isn’t the greatest and could theoretically be used to justify indexing any attribute. It is my bad, I […]

A friend of mine and fellow MVP named Laura Hunter (www.shutuplaura.com) is working on the new edition of the Active Directory Cookbook and has been pinging me with various AdFind/AdMod questions and well anything else that happens to come up. I guess if you want to know what makes the horse tick you walk up […]

I recently got feedback that ExchMbx’s move mailbox functionality broke under Exchange Server 2003 SP2…. I couldn’t duplicate the issue until I actually ran ExchMbx on the E2K3 SP2 server directly versus across the network. I built another Exchange 2003 server and ExchMbx worked great, as soon as I upgraded to SP2, broken…. The error […]

I have been pretty busy with life and work so the new HP Laptop has been sitting still. However my memory came in this morning so this evening I wanted to plug it in. I had two shiney new 1GB SODIMMs to insert. I did so and hit the power button and got a sound […]

I was asked about the whole indexing objectclass topic I talked about in my last post. I have one thing to say about it. Just do it. It is a good thing, it helps every single app out there that has a crappy query that uses objectclass and no indexed attributes. This includes many scripts, […]

I saw this LDAP query three different times today, I am not sure why, but I think someone was telling me to write about it. People use objectcategory=user probably because they are used to hearing use objectcategory, not objectclass because objectclass isn’t indexed. That is correct, by default in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 […]

Well I figured I should write an update on this story and say I went ahead and bought the BDS software for the upgrade price (just under $400). It bothers me that I had to buy it. I used to buy Borland because its standards compliance was way better than VC++ (what standards compliance you […]