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Active Directory, 4th Ed Available on iPhone and iPad
My book has been available on the iPhone and iPad since September of 2009. It’s quite a bargain too at US$4.99. The neat thing about this is you can search the contents of the book for whatever you’re...
View ArticleSpeaking at TEC EMEA this Fall
I’ll be delivering a couple of sessions in Dusseldorf in a couple weeks for TEC 2010 EMEA. There’s even still time to register if you’re not coming yet. I’ve been to a number of TEC’s now and without a...
View ArticleViewing the History of an Active Directory Object with Replication Metadata
I answered a question via Twitter the other day as to whether or not it was possible to see when someone was added to a group without relying on audit information. The good news is that the answer is...
View ArticleCleanup User Objects with Invalid MailNicknames
Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 have no problem with users (or groups and contacts) which have a space in their mailNickname attribute. Unfortunately if you try to work with one of these users using...
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Active Directory SPN Mappings and Kerberos
I had an interesting customer problem today where Kerberos was being attempted for a service principal name (SPN) which simply didn’t exist in Active Directory. This was causing the applications...
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Property Sets and Default Security Descriptors
I made a brief mention of some of the default security permissions that apply to users in my article on Delegating Privileges in Active Directory for Windows IT Pro. I’ve gotten a couple of e-mail...
View ArticleSave 50% on Active Directory, 4th Ed E-Book and Help Japan – Tues 3/22 Only!
Starting at 12:01 AM Pacific (GMT –7), O’Reilly will be offering the eBook version of my book, Active Directory, 4th Edition at 50% off. What’s more is they’ll be donating nearly all of the revenue to...
View ArticleManaging Local Backups with Windows Server Backup
One of the strategies I often employ when deploying Active Directory (AD) for customers is to use the local Windows Server Backup (WSB, previously NTBackup) tool to make system state backups on the...
View ArticleActive Directory Group Nesting Reference
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Active Directory, 5th Edition
One of the most rewarding projects I've gotten to work on in my career is writing books. Pictured right is Active Directory, 5th Edition published by O'Reilly, the update to my 4th Edition of this...
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