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RODC deployment guide

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 8:42 PM by tomek
Another short download information: RODC Deployment Guide just hit TechNet web pages, so anyone interested in deploying Windows Server 2008 with this role have something to read while servers will do its daily business. This part of this guide deals only Read More...
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RODC compatibility pack for down-level clients

Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:19 AM by tomek
Number of RODCs in a production environment is probably not very high now but many peoples and organizations are thinking about it. For those I have good news that new KB article 944043 was published which is delivering RODC compatibility pack for down Read More...
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Steal this post ... just like Deepak

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 7:37 PM by tomek
... You want to have Your own blog with fresh content ... on different topics ... just steel this post like Deepak Gupta is doing. Lately he wrote about maximum limits in AD, just like I did . He wrote also about Hyper-V new features, exactly as Natasha Read More...
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How far You can actually push AD?

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 9:46 PM by tomek
Have you ever wondered how many objects You can create in Your DIT (actually this was showed some time ago by ~Eric ) ? Or how many DC is to many in a domain? For some time now on one of MS internal distribution groups group of folks were discussing document Read More...
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How to handle time ...

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:36 PM by tomek
Handling time is somehow challenging task. It can;t be stopped so far so we have to live with schedules and clocks. But this won't be about time physics but more mundane thing. One of my friends has asked me question how to translate pwdLastSet attribute Read More...
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SQL 2008, Kerberos and SPNs

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:54 PM by tomek
Last weekend I was attending (or better to say I was just passing by as it was short visit) conference organized by some .NET developers and SQL users groups called Community to Community 2008 . If You ask me this was really cool event if You think that Read More...
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Critical vuln in MIT Kerberos implementation

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 9:38 PM by tomek
This isn't something which is in line with my day to day work, however this is something which may affect many organizations so I've decided to add my blog to list of sties which will duplicate this information. Secunia has reported critical vulnerability Read More...
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Active Directory technical specification

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:02 PM by tomek
In case somebody missed it - Microsoft has published lately technical specification for its products. Result of some trials before European Union Committee (I still don't like this institution). Among other documents you can find there Active Directory Read More...
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Confidential attributes - Windows 2008 follow-up

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:08 PM by tomek
My post about confidential attributes is one of most popular on this blog. So far it had 2950 views. By the way, most popular posts are about drink attribute in AD (4118 views, taking under consideration subject of this post it is not surprising ) and Read More...
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Can I recover deleted object ... maybe not exactly deleted.

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:56 PM by tomek
Some time ago I've discussed with Jorge some disaster recovery scenarios. At the end of this MSN chat Jorge said - great topic for blog post, and here it is . As always he wrote excelent entry about it and I don't want to repeat these informations. Anyone Read More...
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CN=Infrastructure - what is it?

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:29 PM by tomek
Few days ago on a newsgroup (yes, Usenet still lives :) ) somebody asked question what CN=Infrastructure is and if it can have something to do with GPO problems which are affecting his AD infrastructure. So ... can it be a cause of such problems? I was Read More...
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Change notification in .NET

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:36 PM by tomek
Active Directory is replicating only changes between DCs. This is something which every person who is working with AD for a while is familiar with. Same mechanism can be used from .NET code to request changes from DC. With .NET it's fairly easy. However Read More...
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Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:02 PM by tomek
It looks like we have to remeber new acronym for tool name - ADTD which stands for Active Directory Topology Diagrammer is, as I see it, replacement for older tool known for some people like ADMap. It allows You to build Visio diagram representing Active Read More...
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System.DirectoryServices and connection pooling

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:05 PM by tomek
Connection pooling is something with most of .NET and SQL developers are pretty familiar with. It is mechanism which allows to re-usage of once established connection under some conditions. Establishing connections are considered as costly operation in Read More...
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ADSEdit and group membership

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:48 PM by tomek
Almost month without a post ... time to get to work. BTW - it is a little strange but more people are visiting this place (according to statistics gathered from the blog) now then in the time when I've posted more often. If I will stop blogging will I Read More...
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