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There is a common misconception that GUIDs[1] are guaranteed to be unique. The misconception is probably because GUID stands for Globally Unique Identifier or people are misunderstanding the concept of being “mathematically guaranteed” unique. If you look at the documentation for one of the higher MS API function that creates GUIDs – CoCreateGuid you will […]

Here I am just working away on Active Directory Third Edition with the Media Center playing recorded Will and Grace or Yes Dear! episodes in the background and I am sweating over some of the changes. I mean some changes are easy, things that are wrong and it is a simple matter to correct the […]

So I don’t let myself go lax on updating this blog, I am forcing myself to step out here and say something occasionally, even if the audience for the message could be extremely limited. I finally have the contract from O’Reilly for Active Directory Third Edition and while there was a little confusion around the […]

Cool update to the previous post on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 SCM ACL Issue. Microsoft actually does have some functionality in SC to handle viewing/manipulating the SCM ACL. Cheer!!! It isn’t something that you can see in the help from SC, but Steve Patrick under his tech4steve@comcast.net address posted a link to a blog […]

Ok, so I am working on the event message id tool dumper I discussed previously and I run into something very odd. First off the tool, it is progressing nicely, output is considerably cleaned up by filtering out categories, etc and writing headers to the files, etc. So I start spot checking the output to […]

So, I am working on this little app to dump all event log ID messages on a specific machine. MS used to offer a database with this info but I can’t seem to find anything newer than the NT4 version. They now have a nice website at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/eventserrors.mspx which is quite nice, however, if you […]

So anyone using the HP OVOW ADSPI? What do you think of it? What is good? What is bad? I am trying to learn about it and am currently in a unique position to give feedback to key HP people about it. Email me or post comments here… joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

I meant to post this previously, the Windows Server Cookbook is now available. For those who wonder, why does joe care? I care because I was technical reviewer for it and also I wrote chapter 17 which is a chapter on Exchange with several Exchange scripts. Personally I think the chapter is well written and […]

Let’s talk property sets… I have ranted about them before but got reminded again today about how much I like them and hate them and figured, I will blow off steam and rant and see if anyone feels the same and is willing to respond. Property sets are an amazingly great idea. I mean really, […]

Unfortunately you have to use IE… http://www.merzo.net/ Starship Dimensions Rating 3.00 out of 5