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Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring preparation to TEC sessions and during TEC I noted some topics to blog about in a future so I hope that I will find time to blog about them soon. I noted also some URLs to tools which are out there so today’s post is some kind of web press release. Patch management. If … Continue reading "(Web)Press review"

Reading Time: 3 minutesActiveDir.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 @ home (he’s growing) it is getting even harder … Continue reading "Using multiple UPN suffixes for users in single directory"

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are number of things in which my current employer managed to succeed. Among greatest success I think  one can count way in which Microsoft managed to scare people with Active Directory schema extension. Probably it has started somewhere down the road with Windows 2000 shipped, some communication, talks … but the fact is … … Continue reading "Ex2007SP2 – step towards virtual directory … sort of"

Reading Time: 2 minutesTake 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 my son will get … Continue reading "Microsoft IT (AD) Health Scanner"

Reading Time: 3 minutesProtecting LDAP traffic with SSL is a good idea, especially if in network environment some applications are (ab)using LDAP as authentication protocol. Some explanation of abusing word – LDAP never was designed as authentication protocol (like Kerberos is). Its name states it clear “DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL”. However because it is simple to use and effective … Continue reading "Where to put SSL certificate for LDAP …"

Reading Time: 4 minutesFrom time to time people are asking me questions about AD and related topics. I don’t know why but they think I might now the answer. Sometimes this is not true 😉 but I try to do my best (I’ve just learned today that there is “Geek network” so probably those persons can answer all … Continue reading "OU layout and LDAP queries"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSunday evening is a good time (after busy day and week) to scan through feeds and other things in my news inbox. I found two things which I want to share with you. (cc) bobafred First is a new version of Microsoft Product Support Reports. If you’ve worked with PSS there is good chance that … Continue reading "Today is Sunday (still) so new download info arrives"

Reading Time: 4 minutes“Virtualization is a bless” I wrote not so long ago (or lets just say that close to that – maybe different wording) and I didn’t thought that I will get back to virtualization topic so quickly. This time it was triggered by article wrote by one of Polish sys admins who had a rather non … Continue reading "We are chasing time … or time is chasing us"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteActive Directory Documentation Team has put on the web interesting post about default permissions of Account Operators (AO) group which might be present on DC object as a result of ACLs placed earlier on computer object.   (cc) ph0t0 {loves you too} In short words: AO are being granted permissions to manage many objects in … Continue reading "Default Account Operators permissions on DC object"

Reading Time: 4 minutesFew days ago my colleague at work pointed me out that I had not created a follow-up to my article about site location which was requested by some users in comments on my Polish blog. When one started this whole blogging thing one has to deal with consequences … time to write something few simples … Continue reading "How to cover un-covered – the case of missing subnet"