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Reading Time: 2 minutesHandling 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 … Continue reading "How to handle time …"

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast 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 … Continue reading "SQL 2008, Kerberos and SPNs"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis 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 … Continue reading "Critical vuln in MIT Kerberos implementation"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 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 find some … Continue reading "Active Directory technical specification"

Reading Time: 4 minutesMy 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). … Continue reading "Confidential attributes – Windows 2008 follow-up"

Reading Time: 2 minutesSome 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 … Continue reading "Can I recover deleted object … maybe not exactly deleted."

Reading Time: 2 minutesFew 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 … Continue reading "CN=Infrastructure – what is it?"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteActive 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 … Continue reading "Change notification in .NET"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt looks like we have to remeber new acronym for tool name – ADTD which stands for Active Directory Topology Diagrammer is, as I see it, replacement for older tool known for some people like ADMap. It allows You to build Visio diagram representing Active Directory configuration based on data from catalog itself. ADTD can … Continue reading "Active Directory Topology Diagrammer"

Reading Time: 2 minutesConnection pooling is something with most of .NET and SQL developers are pretty familiar with. It is mechanism which allows to re-usage of once established connection under some conditions. Establishing connections are considered as costly operation in networking world. So it might do good for performance of Your application if only one connection will be … Continue reading "System.DirectoryServices and connection pooling"