... 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 did on her blog. Maybe I should be flattered that I'm writing something interresting but ...

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 which describes such limits related to AD (BTW - possibility to be a part of such ...

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 value to some more readable value. My first answer was - what a suprise - adfind.exe. Adfind ...

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 it was organized only by people from communities and free to attend for all. Hope we will get ...

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 in MIT Kerberos implementation which can result in remote code execution, DoS or information ...

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 Technical Specification. And now everything is clear about AD ... isn't it :). Time to ...

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 my notes about extending schema in AD (5523 views). So it looks like most or readers of this ...

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 interested in how to recover deleted object from a bit old backup should read Jorge blog ...

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 thinking about describing some case related to objects recovery which is ...

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 AD has one more mechanisms which can be used for pooling changes from AD - less known - change ...