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It was with wry mirth that I read somewhere the Microsoft response to Google’s privacy snub (apparently someone from Google mentioned we all should get used to not having any privacy when using Google’s tools). Microsoft’s bing search engine—which I’ve only used a very few times, if at all because I find it lacking in [...]

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I’ve been having some fun with Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Installing this beast on to a Windows Server 2008 R2 is an adventure, made even more adventurous by these kinds of errors:

This error comes right at the start of the installation, after the so-called “pre-requisites” have been met, supposedly. That’s right, the installation process [...]

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So there I am, working away in my new VM of Server 2008 R2 which I�d just made a Domain Controller, when I decided to load the ActiveDirectory module in PoSH (Power Shell) then play around with AD-specific commands. (I�m in the process of generating a list of useful resources to our delegated OU administrators [...]

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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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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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And there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
That sentence pretty much describes every other day working to administer a Microsoft Windows installation. This is because I get to deal with what I�ve come to call �illogical deviances�, abnormalities, downright idiocy. Over time, I�ve come to understand that I can�t expect the same outcome [...]

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Being that I�m a senior controller on the VATSIM network, I have to work with Zulu time (also known as UTC or GMT) all the time so I set up an additional clock to be shown on my Vista x64 machine only to find out it�s off by one hour.
At first I thought it was [...]

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Um?
One would think Microsoft had received enough elbow pokes for Vista without actually creating that problem?

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Sorry about the light posting … you know, work and all.
Today, I read the latest edition of Redmond Magazine and one particular article caught my eye: Spring Cleaning for AD by Ashley McGlone.
Interesting, I thought, and proceeded to waste the next 10 minutes reading the worst twaddle ever put on paper. I’ll save you the [...]

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Aieeee!
I’m getting tired of working with CA’s backup product; it’s convoluted and difficult to use and the so-called support portal (http://support.ca.com) is flaky beyond words.
There was a point some time back when I could have chosen to change the backup software for the remote office which has ARCServe to Backup Exec and I’m cussing out [...]

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