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October 2006 - Posts

Four years ago Microsoft delivered a "Best Practices Guide" so that companies can use it as a template to create their own company specific Active Directory Forest Recovery Plans. This guide was based upon Windows 2000 Server, but it could also be used Read More...
If haven't heart yet, IE7 has been released to the public and you can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx?mg_ID=10010 I got curious and wanted to install it, so i did. BUT safety first of course... ;-). As I do not want to spend Read More...
A while ago I wrote about installing Longhorn/Vista builds higher than 5384 (through build 5600) within VMWare Workstation. That post can be found here: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2006/09/11/VMWare-and-the-newest-Vista-and-Longhorn-builds.aspx Read More...
Yes, the default ADMINISTRATOR can be locked out (wait!) What I mean is that if you have a lockout threshold of lets say 5, the lockoutTime attribute will show the lockout date and time the account was locked. In ADUC (using another custom admin account Read More...