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As new version of Windows 2003 was shipped new question started to pop-up on newsgroups – how to deal with schema incompatibility between Windows 2003 and Windows 2003 R2 when new DC is added? I've decided to highlight this here because more and more such questions can be seen on the Internet. Windows 2003 R2 … Continue reading "Windows 2003 R2 and schema version"

So I have been doing the TechDays 2006 DFSR and ADFS talks, and during my DFSR presentations when I tell the audience that there few tools to migrate FRS environments to DFSR I get a huge moan.

We will be hosting TechDays on a regular basis from now on as an effort to transfer technical knowledge to the industry for free. There will be loads of community emphasis at TechDays as we try to encourage our communities to participate in the world wide phenomenon of free knowledge transfer.

I had an issue with spyware last weekend. OK – it's also my fault, this machine was infected when my girlfriend's sister was using it and she knew the access to admin account. This machine was infected with a bunch of spyware and malware. Just want to share with You few thoughts about it. I … Continue reading "Fighting spyware – lets hunt the bug"

Problem with too "fat" security token in Windows 20002003 AD infrasructure is known from long time. In basic words – security token is access token generated for each user during the logon process. In the process of building this token all SIDs for security groups user belongs too are added to this token. But hey … Continue reading "Access token limitation document and tool"

I’m not MIIS expert, as I started working with MIIS projects few months ago, so maybe I will not post very advanced posts regarding MIIS in short time but I want to share with some field experience I had with MIIS. Today I want to give some hints about three problems one can came across … Continue reading "MIIS newbie tales – episod 1"

Befor telling what I have to tell – for those who knows me and knows Magda, I'm not cheating on her :). So … do You want to date with a girl from hot-line, why not, that what You have to do. First, You have to call the hot-line (suprising, huh 🙂 ) and talk … Continue reading "Dating with hot-line chick"

I read on some blog about blogging that it is good to introduce yourself for blog audience, so here's a little article about myself. My name is Tomek Onyszko (Tomek is a short name from Tomasz) and I live in Warsaw, capitol of Poland. I work as a Consultant in local Microsoft subsidiary, mostly on … Continue reading "About me …"

One interesting entry showed today on the SourceForge site. Developers from kernelnetworks developed and published on SF OpenLDAP Management Agent for MIIS 2003. Quote from the project web page: (…)This project aims at providing connectivity for commercial and non-commercial applications between MIIS 2003 and OpenLDAP 2.x-based directories, allowing customers to integrate OpenLDAP 2.x into an … Continue reading "OpenLDAP MA for MIIS 2003"

Lately I have to explain to one of our customers how to create attribute in Active Directory which can be protected with additional permissions from reading its content. Such possibility was introduced in Windows 2003 SP1 but when I looked for some information to point our customer to I didn’t found much documentation so I … Continue reading "How to create and use confidential attributes"