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Reading Time: 2 minutesAlmost month without a post … time to get to work. BTW – it is a little strange but more people are visiting this place (according to statistics gathered from the blog) now then in the time when I've posted more often. If I will stop blogging will I get massive visit hit??? 🙂 Every … Continue reading "ADSEdit and group membership"

Reading Time: 2 minutesjoe has released new version of excelent ADFind tool, You can read about this update and grab new version on joe's blog. I want to mention only one of the aspects of this update – on Windows 2008 (aka Longhorn) this version gives You access to new statistics for LDAP queries from AD. Let's take … Continue reading "ADFind udpate, stats and performance"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLDP is one of a magic tool for LDAP which used at customer site in most cases makes You looking as some kind of AD wizard. To be honest I don't know why but in many cases it works in this way. Maybe one of the reason for this is "lack" of documentation for LDP … Continue reading "LDP.exe documentation"

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m not a great programmer but from time to time I have to write some piece of code – this is mostly related to my day job and MIIS projects or creating ad hoc tools for Active Directory projects. Most of these projects are being created using .NET 2.0 as this is environment we are … Continue reading "S.DS and large data sets"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFew days ago Ryann Dunny wrote on his blog about new LDAP filter matching rule introduced with SP2 and of course available in Longhorn. This new rule is LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN (with OID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.194). What it basically allows You to do is to perform a query which will match value in DN-syntax  attributes values and will do … Continue reading "Transitive filter evaluation"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteProbably most of You know it but I came across it just today – in case that You will look for test environment for OpenLDAP and there is no Linux box nearby or You don't want to play with source code You can just download ready build of OpenLDAP for Windows. This build was prepared … Continue reading "OpenLDAP build for Windows"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUlf (DS MVP) who is now having a lot of fun during MVP summit with other MVPs (I'm really jealous) found some time to write on his blog about new LH feature which I wasn't aware of (I have to find more time to play with LH builds, because of work load I have dropped … Continue reading "Longhorn and password policy"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew KB article 932862 was published yesterday to discuss issues which may occur after applying BitLocker schema extensions in Active Directory forest under some conditions. As this KB states: (…) This problem occurs if the following conditions are true: • The Active Directory domain that includes the BitLocker Drive Encryption schema updates contains Windows Server … Continue reading "Error after applying BitLocker schema extensions"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuick info – Ryan Dunn shows on his blog how to get ADAM running on Vista machine. Nice tip for all people who gave a try to Vista.  

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I was working on Active Directory project for customer and as usually in such cases I was doing some drawings with Visio 2007 to illustrate concepts and ideas. When I was trying to draw proposed site configuration I was able to place site on the drawing, but then I wasn't able to move it … Continue reading "Problem with site shape in Visio 2007"