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Well I have been playing with Visual Studio 2005 since about 6PM and it is now about 2AM. That doesn’t include installation, I built a fresh 2003 SP1 Server yesterday and also loaded all of the VS stuff. That took several hours as well, I built VS from DVD. Overall the feel reminded me of […]

I am actually in the process of downloading Visual Studio 2005 from MSDN. I figure I should look at it. Borland seems to be really dorking up in the C++ world and haven’t done anything good in that arena (IMO) since Builder 6 several years ago which is now horribly out of date with no […]

I was working on testing the new ADFIND beta (V01.27.00 beta 2)this evening when I ran into what confused the heck out of me and I eventually decided it might be a bug. I was trying to list some schema attributes and I had a strong idea of what should be returned… The query was […]

Sometimes you want to run a simple command against every machine in a list or otherwise run a simple command and change one piece of info. Here is a quick and dirty script to do it. For instance, lets say you want to check the AD Site every one of your Exchange Servers is in… […]

Ever want to parse a CSV file with perl? If you have used perl, the answer is probably yes. What happens if the delimiter you use, say the comma, is also used in one of the fields but the field is quoted so the comma shouldn’t be visible when you parse the string by comma… […]

The summit was absolutely great. We had some terrible issues with transportation but the time spent with the DS guys was outstanding. There were problems they were thinking about and working on that never occurred to me in the scope of the new features such as RODCs and stoppable/restartable AD that you may have heard […]

If you could sit down in a room and speak to the Directory Service developers, what would you tell them needs to be changed? What causes you pain that they really need to change? If I get the info before Thursday night, I just may be able to bring up your point with the developers. […]

I was the victim of a parachute drop this week. What is a parachute drop? It is where there is a problem somewhere and your boss calls you and says, you need to be on the next plane to “insert name of city in the world here that you weren’t planning on being at tomorrow”. […]

PLEASE SEE POST – http://blog.joeware.net/2008/05/03/1230/ Just a quick one here. I did a search trying to find a ready built GUID to string GUID routine and didn’t find anything I liked so I wrote up a function to do it. Specifically I needed to convert schemaIDGUID attributes to the string GUID format in vbscript. I […]