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Did you know …
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN): The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of an object cannot exceed 64 characters.
Group Memberships: Users, Groups and Computer accounts can be classified as Security Principals and as such Security Principals can be a member of approximately 1015 Groups. This is to do with access token size limitations.
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If you’re a Microsoft Windows administrator, this magazine is required reading. There are good articles (some better than others, look for anything by John Savill) and links to resources galore. Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine is a close second, but it’s no longer available except online. Booooo.
Prior to today, the magazine’s website was atrocious—the layout was busy [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist and author that I’ve written about before (I think—I’ll have to look it up in my archives). He is also a gifted speaker.
This brings to mind a recent event I attended recently; yet another disastrously boring event, I should add. Speaker after speaker with monotonous voices and schmaltzy slideware, boring [...]

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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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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. —Robert A. Humphrey

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Here are some other examples of fireworks photography, spellbinding.

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Today’s Thought:
“The world runs in real time, but government runs in batch.” – Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO

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Want to drive me up a wall?
Make me sit in on a presentation in which the presenter packs enough verbiage into one slide to make an eye chart. I’ve seen and heard presenters boast or apologize for the number of slides they have; boast if they have “only” 20 slides or apologize if they have [...]

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I just had the most interesting conversation. Interesting and sad.
A guy who runs the email server for the CEO’s office called me to ask why one of his users couldn’t reply to more than 100 users, getting an error of ‘Too many recipients.’
I replied that it was understandable as our Exchange server was set to [...]

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So I know it’s been quite a while since the last time I wrote something in this blog. So I know I’ve been a lazy so-and-so. So I know I have no readers. So I don’t care!
So I arrived back in town after attending the three-day TEC 2009 conference in Las Vegas, NV [...]

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