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October 2006 - Posts

Identity Metasystem whitepaper

Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:42 PM by tomek
I'm just catching up with my RSS feeds after few days being off-line (failed power supply may be very troublesome) and I found interesting link at Kim's Cameron blog . Kim is presenting Microsoft Whitepaper titled The Identity Metasystem: Towards a Privacy-Compliant Read More...
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Fall in Poland

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:26 PM by tomek
It looks like today is a day (night) for non technical content so let's continue this way. We have here in Poland a time which is called "golden Polish fall". This is the time during the fall when it is still warm and sunny, rains are still Read More...
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Identity theft

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:43 PM by tomek
For those who were expecting something more serious I own an apologies ... but this is funny and it is really what identity theft is all about. Great comic strip from Off the mark . Read More...
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ADMod, ADFind - user rename

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:22 PM by tomek
Another quick and dirty example how one can user ADMod and ADFind to do something in AD quickly and without scripting. This time question is - how to rename users account, with rename I understand changing their RDN in directory? I will use ADFind to Read More...
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Dual booting Vista and Linux on BitLocker and TPM protected drive

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:29 AM by tomek
If You are interested in an answer to question "How to dual boot Linux and Vista on BitLocker protected drive?" You will find it on Cyril Voisin blog. Cyril is Security Advisor working in Microsoft France, and in his latest post he described how to configure Read More...
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Vista will open more access for security providers ...

Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:25 PM by tomek
I just found at joe's site link to Washington Post's article which is informing about decission which was made at Microsoft to open access to system "guts" for security software providers. If it is true, and I don't have any reasons Read More...
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Battlestar Galactica season 3

Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:06 PM by tomek
Life is not only about computers - sometimes it is about TV and computers :) (this is some kind of joke if someone knows me personaly as I don't have TV at home - strange :), isn't it). If You are not Sci-Fi fan - You can stop reading at this Read More...
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Windows Defender and Your Run key - what do You need to know?

Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:56 PM by tomek
Recently one of my friends who is running small (but very good - <ad word>If You need serious security guys, just call them</ad word>) security company sent me a link to some document. This document described simple experiment with security Read More...
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MIIS newbie tales - Export password attribute with Extensible MA

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:43 PM by tomek
Today I had a little chat on e-mail with Alex Tcherniakhovski which was about following topic: how to create export only attribute with Extensible MA to set initial password for newly provisioned account? (OK, this wasn't exactly such topic but this is Read More...
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Playing with new ADFind and ADMod

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:58 PM by tomek
Today on Microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory simple question was asked: Is possible clean all logon scripts from a OU at the same time. This OU contains others sub-OUs. Sure it is :), thanks to joe we have updated versions of ADFind and ADMod Read More...
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AdMod and AdFind updated

Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 8:55 AM by tomek
In case that someone who is reading this blog is not subscribed to joe's blog or notification list (unlikely) I want to inform that two of joe's tools, which are ultimate ... great tools for AD get updated. These two tools are: AdFind - which Read More...
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