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September 2006 - Posts

Live Writer updated

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:32 PM by tomek
For those who are blogging with Windows Live Writer - new update to Beta version was released on September 27. More details and download is available on Live Writer blog . (written with updated version :) ) Read More...
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VML patch (MS06-055) released out of band

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:06 PM by tomek
As we can read on MSRC blog, Microsoft has published out of band patch for VML vulnerability existing in IE. This flaw was described in Microsoft Security Advisory (925568) published lately. Bug patched by this update allows remote code execution so it Read More...
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Disable simple bind without SSL on ADAM

Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:57 PM by tomek
Today on ActiveDir.org ~Eric pointed out interesting feature in ADAM which allows ADAM administrator to configure ADAM instance to reject simple bind attempts on ports without SSL. To do this one have to edit properties of CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows Read More...
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Auditing directory changes aka "Who deleted this object"

Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:02 AM by tomek
Some question were raised by few peoples about directory object auditing - mostly in a context of question "Who deleted the object?" - so I've decided to give this topic a little space. Windows 2000\2003 provides us with auditing mechanism Read More...
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Script to populate AD with Excel files

Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:02 AM by tomek
Many times on groups and forums people were asking about script which will populate AD with data from Excel file. Alex Tcherniakhovski has modified one of scripts available in script center to create test data in AD environment based on Excel files. This Read More...
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Vista RC1, Office 2007 Beta 2 TR

Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:28 PM by tomek
So ... for two weeks I'm running Vista RC1 (5600) - time for some comments. I'm using Vista on Toshiba Tecra M5 as my main machine, mostly for Visual Studio development, VPC, Internet and e-mail activity. My laptop is dual core with 2 GBs of RAM. First, Read More...
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Small Vista thing

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 2:01 PM by tomek
I know that I own to some of You update on my Vista experience as since the time I wrote about it last time I've upgraded my Vista twice (now it is RC1). Now it will be only short comment on one of a features which is available in Vista, not very Read More...
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Silence on the blog, recommendation for a place to visit in Poland

Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:40 PM by tomek
Last few days were completely quiet here mainly because this was one of those rare times (when You are working in IT) when I was on short holidays. I have a chance to meet with my friend Evan (DS MVP) here in Poland. We had a great time here together Read More...
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