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Speaking of (at)TechED

Posted Sunday, November 14, 2010 3:34 AM by tomek
I just got back home from TechED from Berlin. This was kind of special TechED for me, for at least three reasons: I was first time in last 5 years on TechED, kind of side effect of my departure from Microsoft I was speaking for the first there at TechED Read More...
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Where is my (AD) web service?

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:27 PM by tomek
Windows Server 2008 R2, among other changes, brings a new interface to access directory services – the Active Directory Web Service (ADWS) . It is also available for older systems – Windows 2003 and 2008 – as Active Directory Management Gateway (available Read More...
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Everybody lies ... except network traffic ... DHCP

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:51 PM by tomek
This post is the beginning of new troubleshooting saga – Everybody lies ... except network traffic . Chapter 1: the case of the mysterious DHCP Server. In my daily job as an IT consultant sometimes I have to deal with problems. Different kind of problemss Read More...
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Reverse engineering attribute flows from server export

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:54 PM by tomek
ILM (MIIS) allows management agent configuration to be exported in two ways: Management Agent export Server configuration export. Both options produces XML files, however in first case one will get single file which will contain only configuration for Read More...
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Debugging ILM2

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 10:08 PM by tomek
ILM2 has way more moving parts than ILM2007. We have right now portal with end-user UI based on Sharepoint, business logic hidden behind workflows and MPRs and old synchronization engine as it used to be in previous ILM versions This is very simple description, Read More...
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SQL privileges required for ILM setup

Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 11:22 PM by tomek
New year … new problems … new blog post :). Actually this one is from previous year but as I was a bit busy with different things (read ILM2) and had 2 weeks of Christmas break it gets here now. When you are setting up new ILM 2007 instance you need two Read More...
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HTTP 404 … case of missing ASPX page

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:31 PM by tomek
I’ve described this first on my blog written in Polish so this will be a story and moral in one post – which in original was two posts. Story …. I had to install IdM solution I deployed some time ago in new test environment and part of deployment was Read More...
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Who need a swap file ?

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:15 PM by tomek
OK … this isn’t an advocacy post :), but I remember discussions few years ago how to tweak NT or 2000 to run without swap file on newsgroups ;). It isn’t something I would do on purpose however it had happened on my T61P + 4GB RAM system. Actually I ran Read More...
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Inactive “Open as a web folder” in IE

Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 9:23 PM by tomek
Recently one of customers asked me simple troubleshooting question – why users on Terminal Services can’t use "Open as Web folder” in IE? First answer is simple – because it is grayed out :). But why it is grayed out? Look, Terminal services == GPO Read More...
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Case of failed-search error

Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:20 PM by tomek
This will be just quick note to present a problem I’ve encountered and quick solution, however I haven’t got time to dig into this issue guts. But I will try to in the feature. Simple scenario : ILM connecting to Active Directory through standard AD Management 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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Short break on the blog ... spring is coming

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:00 PM by tomek
It was a bit silent on this blog lately. Mainly because massive load of work I had last time with different MIIS and AD engagements. This required some traveling (Belfast and Belgrad this time) and consumed a lot of time and efforts, but I'm pretty happy Read More...
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Problem with Crystal Reports redistributable package

Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:27 PM by tomek
I know that this blog has DS in its title, but as my job sometimes involves development of various elements of IdM systems, which includes ASP .NET applications it may happen that You will find here developement or application deployment posts. Actually Read More...
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