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Mailbox Enabling a User in .Net
A while back, I promised I'd continue talking about CDO, .Net, Exchange, AD, and good stuff like that. Albeit belatedly, I thought I'd post how to mailbox enable a user in VB.Net. I'm goign to assuem that the user is already in the directory, as we already...
Using LDP to find the Distinguished Name of an object
Sometimes remembering or deriving the full distinguished name of an object in the directory can be painful to do by hand. Luckily, Microsoft provides a nice little browser utility with the server os' and the 2003 admin pack. Beware that you can do A LOT...
IT Stuff Here?
KC Blogged about the lack of IT Bloggers. I signed up for a blog here on aspnet back when it was actually .net focused. The site has obviously changed quite a bit since then. I've always kept most of my non-.Net stuff at my own site - www.briandesmond...
Creating a Contact in AD
Well, this new Agg Views thing indicates that my babbling about Active Directory stuff is mildly interesting, so, I'm continuing the series here. This morning's task is creating a contact in AD. Before we get going, let me give a brief overview of my...
System.DirectoryServices & CDOEXM
Well, I haven't posted here recently because I've been a busy sysadmin & haven't had time to touch my copy of Visual Studio.Net. A new project, writing an Intranet for Payton's teachers and students has cropped up, and, I've been doing some new stuff...
Building a Lab
I wrote an article on my personal/tech blog about how to build a domain controller for use in a disconnected development lab. This is also relevant for .Net if you're building an Active Directory connected app, so, here's the beginning of the article...
IIS6 & "Service Unavailable" Errors
As promised, a Google powered blog entry. One of my previous posts on configuring an ASP App to write to a UNC path had the words “application pool” and “service unavailable” in it quite a bit. The post didn't actually deal with...
New Content Source
Well, I've got a new source of content: Interesting problems people Google for, click through to my blog, and don't find anything. It seems I have a couple of long posts with lots of tech keywords (my rant on ms blaster, and my introductory post). It...
What would you buy?
As the subjects suggests, I'm looking for stuff to buy. Specifically, software and trinkets useful in an IT department supporting a mid-sized environment (1000 comps/1000 users mac & pc laptop & desktop). Anything goes, I'm more on the IT end...
File & Share Permissions
Dave Burke ran into an issue I didn't mention in my previous post on IIS & remote resources: share permissions versus file permissions. Before I start, let's do some acronym vocabulary. There are more or less three things to know: ACL (pronounced...
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