Superbowl commercials
I’m not one for the game really, but the commercials are usually a lot of fun to watch. This year was particularly entertaining as a friend took the time to put together a spreadsheet and track what we...
View ArticleThe ribbon
I know different people feel differently about the ribbon (for those not familiar, check out Office 2007) but I must admit I’m a fan. I have liked it since the first minute I used it. I definitely feel...
View ArticleChange visibility in the directory…or lack there of (aka "what’s the point of...
I’m often asked about aging in adamsync so I thought I’d present the more general problem here for people to ponder. Hopefully this gives some context around the problem which aging in adamsync is...
View ArticleFinding the lost&found container in S.DS.P…or anything that isn’t ADSI really
I found myself writing a piece of C# which would go hunt for objects in lost&found today. This is a pretty straight forward task….find that container, pop in to it and search away. I usually do...
View ArticleHousekeeping (again)
I’ve created a new adamsync tag and updated all of the adamsync posts to point there (in addition to normal tagging). A few people have asked me for this so I figured, what the heck. Apparently people...
View ArticleGarbage collection & TSL warnings…why now?
I was recently pinged by a friend who is rolling out LH in their production environment. They were having an interesting issue where the LH DC showed these two events, in this order: (event log entries...
View ArticleMr. T likes a double-shot, who knew
I remember watching The A-Team well as a kid. It was my sat evening ritual.Anyway, I read this post about someone bumping in to him in Starbucks and nearly lost it.
View ArticleThe story of squeaky lobster
I am rarely as excited about a blog post as I am about this one. Brett has finally told the story of squeaky lobster. Thankfully, it is documented for all of time!I was at the fateful dinner where it...
View ArticleLarge AD database? Probably not this large…
Over the last few months there have been a series of threads in regard to max <fill in the item here…there have been many> in a database. These items have ranged from database size to # of...
View ArticleArrayList and Synchronized()…the misleading method
I recently found myself wondering about synchronization when using an ArrayList in managed code. I was building up an ArrayList and iterating through it. Both insertion into and iteration over the list...
View ArticleChange visibility in the directory...or lack there of (aka "what's the point...
I’m often asked about aging in adamsync so I thought I’d present the more general problem here for people to ponder. Hopefully this gives some context around the problem which aging in adamsync is...
View ArticleFinding the lost&found container in S.DS.P...or anything that isn't ADSI really
I found myself writing a piece of C# which would go hunt for objects in lost&found today. This is a pretty straight forward task….find that container, pop in to it and search away. I usually do...
View ArticleGarbage collection & TSL warnings...why now?
I was recently pinged by a friend who is rolling out LH in their production environment. They were having an interesting issue where the LH DC showed these two events, in this order:(event log entries...
View ArticleLarge AD database? Probably not this large...
Over the last few months there have been a series of threads in regard to max <fill in the item here...there have been many> in a database. These items have ranged from database size to # of...
View Article"VGA"-like drivers for networking
One of the things that has always impressed me about keyboard, mouse and monitor support is that it just works. That is, you can plug in almost any keyboard, mouse and monitor, on basically any video...
View ArticleADAMSync on pre-R2 systems
From the inbox.....<quote>You say the requirements are Win2003R2 with the ADAM installed from the R2 CD.Will your guides work for us aswell? Running Win2003 SP1 in AD-environment and our...
View ArticleADAMSync can also transform users in to proxy users
Now that we have ADAMSync synchronizing our data over, we should probably investigate the most commonly asked for transformation: proxy user transformation.When we introduced proxy bind in ADAM RTM,...
View ArticleSynchronizing only the attributes you really want
In our previous ADAMSync runs we synchronized all attributes except those in the <exclude> tags. This is probably ok for our tinkering, but in a real scenario, you might want to consider picking...
View ArticleSyncing to our OU=SyncTargetOU NC instead
Earlier in this series of posts I changed our sync target from form “OU=” to “DC=”. This was done to carefully skirt around a small issue. Now with our new found knowledge of logging in ADAMSync, let’s...
View ArticleGetting a log from ADAMSync
Over the course of the next few posts we’re going to start modifying all sorts of things in the configuration. Depending upon the particulars of your environment this might or might not pan out. :) As...
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