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FIM 2010 – NOT NOT is Empty and NOT equal, I think…

For a customer, a few colleagues and I are building a FIM 2010 RC1 environment. Within this customer, internals and externals were identified as follows: Internals --> Attribute 'SomeID' has a value Externals --> Attribute 'SomeID' does not have Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:53 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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Removing Windows Sharepoint Services v3.0

For a FIM 2010 RC1 I had to remove Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 (WSS3) and reinstall it. After reinstalling it I had found out the webpage was showing me the exact same info as before the removal. Then I remembered there was also something like a Windows Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:51 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Managing W2K3 AD domain through Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 (R2)

Today I was working with ILM 2007 at a client's site. The client uses a W2K3 AD. ILM is installed on a W2K8 server and I wanted to use "Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC)" with the "attribute editor" tab to check some attributes. To be able to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:25 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Importing Hyper-V VMs

If you have exported a Hyper-V VM to a folder and then try to import it again on another computer for example, you might get the following error: [Window Title] Hyper-V Manager [Main Instruction] A server error occurred while attempting to import the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:02 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Exporting Multi-valued attribute to SQL table

Based upon my post about " Multiple Authoritative Sources for Group Memberships and how about precedence in ILM ", a technology partner and I were setting up and test/demo environment. The idea was as follows. The MGMT app is authoritative for groups Read More...
Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 5:18 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Windows PowerShell Remoting with WinRM

If you are using Windows PowerShell Remoting right now with WinRM CTP3 (or lower) on Windows Server 2008, it may break after you apply Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 (W2K8). One of the symptoms is the WinRM service not starting anymore and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:27 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Creating your own AD Design and gathering information

Have you ever needed to create your own AD design, either for some customer or for your own company? If the answer is YES and you need good information as a reference, check the following. Microsoft has several documents and guides that can help you create Read More...
Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 12:06 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments

OWA 2007 shows “440 Login Timeout”

I was setting up a demo/test rig with all kinds of stuff to work with ILM2007 and provision objects. Part of that install was Exchange 2007 with SP1. So my one and only VM hosts the following: Windows Server 2003 SP2 ADDS, ADCS SQL 2005 SP2 Exchange 2007 Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:40 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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AutoEnrollment Control Access Right is missing in AD

A few days ago I was chatting with a colleague of mine in the UK about automated permissions assignment in AD through DSACLS. His reason to do this was because of CLM deployments where you had to use different kinds of Extended Rights that are defined Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:13 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Creating your own deprovisioning tool or script

What to do with user accounts that are or not mailbox enabled when the corresponding user(s) leave(s) the company. For that, and without buying a full blown solution you can create tooling in a simple way if the following process is sufficient for you. Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:18 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Granting admin level access for the OS on DCs but not for AD...

Yesterday and today I (and some other people) were involved in heavy discussion how you can accomplish: Granting Admin level access for the OS on DCs but not within AD The posts can be found in: NG: "microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory" Post Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:01 PM by Jorge | 5 Comments

Migrating stuff with ADMTv3

ADMTv3 has been out for a while and is the free Microsoft Migration Tool available for use (besides other small tools that can help you during your migration like NETDOM, SUBINACL, ROBOCOPY, etc.). It can be downloaded here Besides the tool you can also Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:46 PM by Jorge | 9 Comments

The link between a "DFS-R Diagnostic Health Report" and the month of December

Yes, it is true, there is a link! Let me guess.....until yesterday you were able to create DFS-R Diagnostic Health Reports and as of today you are not able to do that anymore... The error you receive is: <COMPUTERNAME>: The health report cannot Read More...
Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 8:41 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Disentaglements and Migration Scenarios

A major company is disentangling a part of its business and that part is continuing on its own. It will not be integrated into another company. Last week I was asked to review and advise several migration scenarios setup by a company's representative. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 6:37 PM by Jorge | 5 Comments

NT4, W2K3, Trusts and Security Policies

Last Tuesday (28-11-2006), almost at the end of the day, and old customer (Customer "X") called me and told me they were having issues with the interoperability between their NT4 environment (yes, they still exist! ;-) ) and their AD environment. As I Read More...
Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:08 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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