Just a quick note: In case you were not aware - netdom.exe cannot create a Forest trust (inbound or outbound). But you can leverage the S.DS namespace to automate this with a little powershell: $targetForestName = "targetForest.local" $trustPassword...

I wanted to share a recent expericene with LDAP timeouts and Exchange failures

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So there was an interesting case which floated my way the other day. The Audit policies in the domain controllers policy was set to the following, and there were no other policies blocking or changing these. After a policy update the following...

Things have been busy, but I do plan on doing more frequent posts in the near future. spat

Very cool news from the recent PDC - http://www.blendertorenderman.org/2010/11/pixar-and-microsoft-cloud-rendering.html

  OK – time for the random Monday morning blog. So I was working on some FIM CM SQL API testing and was hitting an error calling 'externalSubmitSuspendRequest' So – based on some limited past experience I thought “Hrmm no DB access, well I do recall...

Thank God for the tubes!! I was banging my head against some errors today in some code which seemed pretty straightforward. Take some data - encrypt it via 3DES - encode it in base64 Toss it over to some other system - decode - decrypt. ...

Not really work related but cool. I’ve been working on some artwork of mine and was looking into fractal images.. specifically Mandelbrot sets. I also have been working on some 3D via Blender3d and so I was wondering if someone had explored the...

FIM CM logging and how to troubleshoot some errors using them

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In this post I will clear up the documentation on how to map certificates to users via the *ALL* available altSecurityIdentities attribute values in AD. This goes hand in hand with the last post on disabling the UPN mapping for logon

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This post will discuss how to disable UPN mapping for certifcate to user mapping during smartcard logon.

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Just a reminder Certutil -scinfo will list all the cert on the card: ================ Certificate 3 ================ --- Reader: Gemplus USB Smart Card Reader 0 --- Card: Axalto Cryptoflex .NET Provider = Microsoft Base Smart Card Crypto Provider...

Sorry - they udpated the system and I have not had time to make it pretty.... spat

As you may have guessed from my recent posts, I was working on a first stab at some WIF work recently.. and the app was failing with the following error. The system cannot find the file specified. Description: An unhandled exception occurred...

I am running Win7x64, Visual Studio 2008 and the most recent WIF runtime and SDK ( Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu and WindowsIdentityFoundation-SDK.msi ) Seems it is a common issue as noted on this thread : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/netservices...

Installing the SDK on Win7 and it says I need to install the WIF runtime. So I look for the download, find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EB9C345F-E830-40B8-A5FE-AE7A864C4D76&displaylang=en If you are...

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Install the role service under IIS At the Server level - enable DS mapping under authentication: Create the web site. Enable it for HTTPS ( bindings ) Set the site to require certs under: Enable the site : C:\Windows\SysWOW64...

I needed a quick function to return a point.. Spat public Point Lerp( Point p0, Point p1, double amtInterpolate) { double xlerp = p0.X + ( p1.X - p0.X ) * amtInterpolate; double ylerp = p0.Y + ( p1.Y - p0.Y ) * amtInterpolate; Point newPoint...

Debugging managed code in WinDbg has never been my idea of fun. I wasn’t forcibly exposed to it enough I guess. For example, if you look at http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2009/02/23/there-and-back-again-the-life-of-a-bug-and-fix.aspx there...

Well, I have had to resort to VMWare. I don’t have anything against it really, I used to use it exclusively, but I would rather use an MS platform if it does what I need it to. Unfortunately the VPC version for Win7 does not support 64 bit guests and...

Testing a few things with SL, eventually want a TFS integrated reporting tool. But, this was more for just fun.

I really dont like posting about another post.. but its too cool not to in this case :) There are some really awesome new features for Cert Services in 2k8 R2.. check it out in the Certificate Enrollment Web Services Whitepaper Original post: ...

Quick post.. If you are having errors when installing the MUI language packs on Win7\Server 2008 R2 - the logs are located in the users profile appdata path: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\lpksetup folder Here is a snip of a log for...

Been away for a while , busy with lotsa interesting online services projects ( my "new" group ) . I'll see if I can blog about any of those interesting tidbits.. in the meantime. WPP tracing is all over the place in Win7 – a quick count of registered...