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Vista introduces several new functionality and few of then (to be specific two) requires our AD environment to get prepared through schema extension. These schema extension needed to run new Vista's features will be part of LH schema, but LH is still somewhere behind the horizon and we have to take care about it by … Continue reading "Schema extensions for Vista new features"

Microsoft has published new Vista tool called Group Policy Log View. Its name tells everything about its purpose. Vista's GPO processing takes advantage of new event logging subsystem Crimson and stores a lot of data about GPO processing in event logs. This tool allows You to create TXT, XML or HTML report from these events. Report … Continue reading "Vista Group Policy Log View"

If You need Windows XP SP2 \ IE 6 client virtual machine for testing purposes or just for browsing You can download pre-configured (and activated) VHD image (1.5 Gb) from Microsoft. It contains Windows XP SP2\ IE6 and IE7 Readiness Toolkit. System installed on this VHD will expire on 04/01/2007.

New download called Windows Automated Installation Kit just showed up on Downloads. According to its description: (…) Use this tool to configure unattended setup answer files (Unattend.xml) and capture images. (…) It support Windows 2003/XP/Vista. There is nothing more what I can tell You about it just now, I will have to test it and … Continue reading "Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)"

Most of people dealing with Active Directory knows or heard of Active Directory Migration Guide. With version 3 being current, this tool allows to migrate data between Windows NT\Active Directory domains, helping in migration and domain restructuring scenario. Microsoft has published ADMTv3 migration guide document which should be useful for those who are planning to … Continue reading "ADMTv3 migration guide"

ADM templates are hot this week. Right after publishing PowerShell ADM templates for PowerShell showed up on Microsoft Downloads. IE7 ADM templates also were published today. 

Microsoft has published on Downloads Office 2007 ADM templates for downloads. As Office 2007 will be launched soon and may start to show up in our networks maybe it is worth to take a look at ADM possibilities before this will happen.

If You are developer and You have to utilize Active Directory or ADAM in Your application .NET System.DirectoryServices (S.DS) namespace is nice thing to have. It simplifies operation performed against Active Directory, hiding all COM stuff behind relatively few different classes You can use to query and modify directory objects. S.DS is nice namespace, but it still utilizes … Continue reading "More data is available exception when searching with S.DS"

Sysinternals tools have new home at TechNet – if You need it now You can find at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/. With new home, new tool was added to SysInternals toolset –  ProcessMonitor, which has functionality of Regmon and Filemon, plus monitoring of processes and threads in one tool

Recently my friend wrote simple app which is querying AD for some data, and he sent me LDAP filter to check – this filter was completely OK, but not very straightforward to read. Yesterday I came across similar usage of objectCategory attribute in LDAP filter, and I don't think it was used in this way … Continue reading "Few word on objectCategory usage in LDAP filters"