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FIM 2010 management pack

Posted Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:07 PM by tomek
I'm breaking the silence on the blog with just a quick post on a tool for FIM. It looks like the FIM 2010 Management Pack for SCOM 2007 has hit the web and is available for download. If you are using FIM and SCOM now you have proper tool to monitor its Read More...
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Groups and tokens

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:27 AM by tomek
I'm done with an intensive month of sessions, delivered for different user groups and other communities online. When you managed to attend my session about Kerberos I hope you liked it ;). Now it's time for some blogging activities. A friend asked on 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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Be careful what You promise … SYSVOL

Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:43 PM by tomek
... on my Polish blog a question was asked on Sunday evening if I can provide some description on the SYSVOL location process and the pitfalls which might wait there. I said ... ' Why not ' ... and then you have to keep your promise. So today it will Read More...
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Spot the difference

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:59 PM by tomek
Where is a question there is an answer (at least in most cases). This time question was “How to check schema extension introduces to a forest?” and it was asked on ActiveDir.org. There was even more than one answer … apparently some consultants are watching Read More...
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ILM 2007 and virtualization – small but important change

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:59 PM by tomek
Small, but important change was introduced in ILM 2007 FP1 FAQ : Wow … this means that something which already had happened at many customers is now officially supported configuration. Good for customers who are running ILM in VM or are thinking about Read More...
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Using multiple UPN suffixes for users in single directory

Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 11:17 PM by tomek
ActiveDir.org is always a source of all sorts of directory related discussion. In most cases interesting once. I have to admit that I would like to have more time to catch up with ActiveDir.org and to be more active there (note to self) but with Wojtek Read More...
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Microsoft IT (AD) Health Scanner

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:16 PM by tomek
Take a lot of work, add 7 week old son and serious flue (which strikes 2 days after You got back from travel which incorporates transfer on some heavy used airports – first thought – pork ;) ) and you will get some silence on a blog. I hope that while Read More...
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And you will keep your password updated …

Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:52 PM by tomek
Implementing effective password policy was always a hard task. Especially when additional accounts like: workstation local administrator account services account (look for W2008R2 new features) name whatever you want account … comes into equation and 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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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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