Very humorous. 🙂
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4/30/2009
4/27/2009
To the ActiveDir.Org Crowd…
I got this from Tony and I wanted to post it, looking at the site and trying to send email to the list it appears their ISP already chopped the lines…
Hi all
The ISP that we have been using to host ActiveDir.org for the past 8 years is shutting down and we are preparing to transfer the site to another hosting service. The mailing list subscription and site user account information will remain the same and no action is required on your part.
A potential fly-in-the-ointment is that we understood the hosting termination notice period from our ISP was 30 days from Monday 27th April. Now we understand that the ISP has requested the termination from their upstream provider AT&T and that cut-off is expected “within 30 days”. Needless to say, this has put us in some difficulty and we are doing our best to transfer the site to our new provider asap.
There may be some disruption to service during this time. We ask for your patience and apologise for any loss of service.
Cheers
Tony and Matty
4/17/2009
Ethical Behavior…
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-Albert Einstein
Embrace…
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
– Albert Einstein
Imagination…
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
Weakness…
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
– Albert Einstein
4/16/2009
Indexing objectClass in Active Directory…
Another discussion recently popped up on AD Org about indexing the objectClass attribute. Don Hatcherl (previously mentioned on this blog multiple times – short and sweet, when he talks about AD, I and everyone else with any sense listens…) said the following about indexing objectClass…
…An early version of ESE (the one shipped in Exchange 4.0, and that never shipped with AD) had perf problems indexing highly non-unique values. We handled this during development by inventing the ObjectCategory concept and creating a climate of fear to prevent people from indexing ObjectClass. Both of these were, in retrospect, stupid ideas. By the time Windows 2000 shipped ESE’s perf problem (ok, ok, this particular ESE perf problem) had been fixed, but by then there was too much organizational inertia around ObjectCategory to get rid of it. It took until Windows 2008 to do the correct thing.
You should do two things:
1) index ObjectClass
2) accept my apology for the confusion
DonH
Thanks Don!
4/8/2009
Task Scheduler needs serious improvement…
I recently had a blow up of a server at work and unfortunately it was a server I adopted rather recently and so hadn’t been able to put the time into the discovery work on it that needed to be done. Well another group that the server was apparently shared with decided to do some updates and unfortunately blew the box out of the water. At this time I find out that the backup process in this customer was data only, not bare metal. Oi.
So one of the most painful aspects of this whole thing is around scheduled tasks. The JOB files are in intact, however, the creds (or even the SID of the runas ID) aren’t actually stored in the file and in fact there is NO WAY to ascertain what creds used to be used. This is amazingly annoying and painful as I sit here trying to work out creative ways to figure this out. I can think of multiple ways to get his info when the scheduler service is up and running ok but if all you have are JOB files there is nothing, or at least nothing I can find.
In looking this over I found that there isn’t even a way to properly export tasks. This is just plain silly. Does MSFT think that the one machine you deploy a dozen or more tasks to will always be up and running and survive forever?
Ugh.
RICHCOPY RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC!!!
I have spoken about this tool before. The old version I have is hands down the best file copy app out there. I expect this newer version that is now publicly available is just as good… Thanks to Scott C for letting me know this was now out there.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
joe
Annoying annoying annoying annoying…
PS C:\Documents and Settings\$joe.TEST> cd\
The term ‘cd\’ is not recognized as a cmdlet, function, operable program, or script file. Verify the term and try again
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At line:1 char:3
+ cd\ <<<<
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