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Many times on groups and forums people were asking about script which will populate AD with data from Excel file. Alex Tcherniakhovski has modified one of scripts available in script center to create test data in AD environment based on Excel files. This script was created for testing pourposes but it can be used and … Continue reading "Script to populate AD with Excel files"

I know that I own to some of You update on my Vista experience as since the time I wrote about it last time I've upgraded my Vista twice (now it is RC1).  Now it will be only short comment on one of a features which is available in Vista, not very important but nice. … Continue reading "Small Vista thing"

For anyone interested – DEC 2007 dates are available and registration is open. DEC stands for Directory Expert Conference and is held by NetPro. I've never been there but from what I've heard about it and what I know about speakers who will deliver sessions there (last years this were among others Dean, joe and … Continue reading "DEC 2007 is coming"

As this question still is rised on the newsgroups I've diecided to blog a little update to my previous post regarding extending the schema for Windows 2003 R2 DC. Since the date I've posted this message KB 917385 article was published which describes this behaviour and gives a solution as well. As some of you may … Continue reading "Windows 2003 R2 schema extension KB article"

I was asked lately to check some things connected with authentication users accessing Apache based web-site against AD. It is quite simple but requires some configuration so I’ve gathered things all together and here is is – how to make Apache web server authenticating users against AD using mod_auth_kerb module. Here’s a recipe for mine … Continue reading "Apache and kerberos authentication within AD domain"

This post has nothing to do with technology but maybe some of you will be interested in it. Today is 62'th anniversary of Warsaw uprising which started at 1'st of August in 1944 during World War 2. Flying fortress B-17 should fly in this moment on a sky above my flat which is located in … Continue reading "Warsaw uprising anniversary"

Yesterday I wrote about Blue Security, the maker of Blue Frog service fall under the pressure of spammer's attack targeted against its service. But as in Star Wars now hope raised on the ruins of Blue Security – new project called Okopipi was started as Blue Frog's successor. Idea of Okopipi is to build service … Continue reading "Blue Frog's life after death"

I was quite busy in last week and I still will be busy in coming weeks. Because of this I missed few things in news and Internet – one of such things, which I think is very important, is fall of Blue Security, Internet company from Israel. I was pointed to this story by my … Continue reading "Rise and fall of Blue Frog"

Jorge with whom I had discussion which lead to this post is travelling somewhere in the States (hope you have great time Jorge), and I'm also traveling to my parents for eastern and I have some time to spent so maybe I will describe some problem, and resolution. Using image as backup method for domain … Continue reading "Restoring DC from image or saved VHD"

So MR/Mrs. Firefox user(s) —> who was telling me how secure Firefox was? Check this blog entry on how to view all your stored passwords, using tools menu in Firefox. Carlos