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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany 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"

Reading Time: 2 minutesSo … for two weeks I'm running Vista RC1 (5600) – time for some comments. I'm using Vista on Toshiba Tecra M5 as my main machine, mostly for Visual Studio development, VPC, Internet and e-mail activity. My laptop is dual core with 2 GBs of RAM. First, it is more stable ten previous builds (Beta2) I … Continue reading "Vista RC1, Office 2007 Beta 2 TR"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI 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"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI don't know how many of peoples who are reading this (I hope most of them) are familiar with Err tool. Today I had problem with password reset application which utilizes MIIS and if I would follow standard path and if I would checked error number with Err.exe this problem will resolve imidietly. What is … Continue reading "Err – Your error friend"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor 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"

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew notebook has just arrived (Toshiba Tecra M5 – after first few hours my opinion is that this is definitely not heavy duty hardware) and I’ve decided to try to use Windows Vista Beta 2 on it as a main system, to learn and get my own opinion about it. Installation went fast and it … Continue reading "I gave Vista a try , part I"

Reading Time: 2 minutesOK, I must admit – I live in a strange country where we are using this all fancy characters called diacritical characters. If You would spot some Polish text on the Internet, You will notice some fancy characters like ą,ś,ł etc. In early computer age time (which was a little later then outside of Eastern … Continue reading "Living in the multi language world is though (at least for some of us)"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday 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"

Reading Time: 3 minutesI 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"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs others members of DirTeam.com blog assotiation I was forced by some "nice" people who jammed my posts with thir "valuable" comments to enable moderation for comments. So .. if You post a comment on this blog, just wait a few "seconds" – I will handle it and it should show-up soon.