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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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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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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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VMRCPlus

Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:50 PM by tomek
VMRCPlus is new tool which will become public soon or even is released right now. This is one of the tools I've asked "why it is not public" when I've joined Microsoft two years ago (wow, it is two years this month). VMRCPlus is client tool for Virtual Read More...
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ADFind udpate, stats and performance

Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:00 AM by tomek
joe has released new version of excelent ADFind tool, You can read about this update and grab new version on joe's blog . I want to mention only one of the aspects of this update - on Windows 2008 (aka Longhorn) this version gives You access to new statistics Read More...
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LDP.exe documentation

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:24 PM by tomek
LDP is one of a magic tool for LDAP which used at customer site in most cases makes You looking as some kind of AD wizard. To be honest I don't know why but in many cases it works in this way. Maybe one of the reason for this is "lack" of documentation Read More...
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How to remove\add workstation from\to domain remotely?

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 11:08 PM by tomek
Today on microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory newsgroup somebody came with a question how he can remove and add workstations to domain, without performing this operation manually on every workstation? Because of some DR situation he had 250 Read More...
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How to install Windows Server admin pack on Vista

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:35 PM by tomek
New Knowledge Base article KB 930056 was published on 23 December, and it describes procedure which allows Windows Server admin pack tool to be installed and used on Windows Vista. As this procedure was around for a while on lists and newsgroups it's Read More...
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Slash character in AD object distinguishedName

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:24 PM by tomek
I was working lately on some code which utilizes Active Directory and I came across problem that trying to access some of objects raised an exception with E_ADS_BAD_PATHNAME message. After short investigation I found out that this objects for which this Read More...
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How to check if I can update attribute?

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:51 PM by tomek
Yesterday I was at customer site to talk about identity management and as it often happens some other topics were discussed with customer tech stuff after discussing main topics. In this discussion I was asked how to read and parse security descriptor Read More...
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Schema extensions for Vista new features

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:58 PM by tomek
Vista introduces several new functionality and few of then (to be specific two) requires our AD environment to get prepared through schema extension. These schema extension needed to run new Vista's features will be part of LH schema, but LH is still Read More...
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Vista Group Policy Log View

Posted Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:28 PM by tomek
Microsoft has published new Vista tool called Group Policy Log View . Its name tells everything about its purpose. Vista's GPO processing takes advantage of new event logging subsystem Crimson and stores a lot of data about GPO processing in event Read More...
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Pre-configured Windows XP SP2\IE6 VHD

Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:39 PM by tomek
If You need Windows XP SP2 \ IE 6 client virtual machine for testing purposes or just for browsing You can download pre-configured (and activated) VHD image (1.5 Gb) from Microsoft. It contains Windows XP SP2\ IE6 and IE7 Readiness Toolkit. System installed Read More...
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Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)

Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:03 PM by tomek
New download called Windows Automated Installation K it just showed up on Downloads. According to its description: (...) Use this tool to configure unattended setup answer files (Unattend.xml) and capture images. (...) It support Windows 2003/XP/Vista. Read More...
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ADMTv3 migration guide

Posted Saturday, November 18, 2006 4:15 PM by tomek
Most of people dealing with Active Directory knows or heard of Active Directory Migration Guide. With version 3 being current, this tool allows to migrate data between Windows NT\Active Directory domains, helping in migration and domain restructuring Read More...
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