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Entries from September 2009

AdminSDHolder

September 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Once again, I find I don’t know as much about the inner workings of Active Directory. Joe of joeware dissects a TechNet article about AdminSDHolder which uses his fine tool (AdFind) to query AD for security information. Joe finds a few things lacking in the article (calls it “rough.”)
Once again, it strikes me that one [...]

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Tags: Active Directory · Journal · Miscellaneous

Spell I-D-I-O-T-I-C

September 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off

Comes the news from Nasir Ali (Exchange Escalation Engineer, the poor bastard) that Exchange Server 2007 SP2 setup fails if all domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2.
The error is as follows:
[ERROR] Cannot find at least one domain controller running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later in domain ‘DC=DCName,DC=com,DC=DCName’. This could be [...]

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Tags: Exchange · Rant