Spat's WebLog (Steve Patrick)

Automate Forest trust creation

SpatDSG — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

DC fails logons or experiences LDAP timeouts

SpatDSG — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:38:00 GMT

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

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Audit policy not registering audits

SpatDSG — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ( almost )

SpatDSG — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:05:52 GMT

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

(not quite OT) Pixar Renderman and the Azure cloud..

SpatDSG — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:12:32 GMT

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

FIM CM and SQL APIs– The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object

SpatDSG — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Love the tubes..thank you Kiran Patil - base64 won't trick me again :)

SpatDSG — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:54:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)

Math is beautiful.. ( off topic )

SpatDSG — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:39:16 GMT

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...(read more)

FIM CM Logging and random errors

SpatDSG — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:27:00 GMT

FIM CM logging and how to troubleshoot some errors using them

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HowTo: Map a user to a certificate via all the methods available in the altSecurityIdentities attribute

SpatDSG — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:30:00 GMT

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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HowTo: Disable UPN mapping for SmartCard logon

SpatDSG — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:22:00 GMT

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

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Delete certificate from smartcard with Base Smart Card provider

SpatDSG — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:06:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Ugliest blog ever..

SpatDSG — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:02:50 GMT

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

WSFederationAuthenticationModule (WSFAM) CryptographicException auth failure

SpatDSG — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

WIF SDK and Visual Studio 2008 addin failure

SpatDSG — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Failure on WIF SDK install

SpatDSG — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:29:00 GMT

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...(read more)

All things HyperV

SpatDSG — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:15:00 GMT

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx...(read more)

Just a quick post on IIS7 cert mapping setup

SpatDSG — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:41:00 GMT

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...(read more)

lerp

SpatDSG — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Debugging managed code.. from a newb for managed code debugging

SpatDSG — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Why am I using VMWare?

SpatDSG — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Playing with Silverlight..

SpatDSG — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:40:00 GMT

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

Cool new features in 2k8 R2 for Certificate Services

SpatDSG — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:36:00 GMT

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: ...(read more)

Logging for MUI language packs

SpatDSG — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:19:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to enable WPP tracing for a component at boot time?

SpatDSG — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:30:00 GMT

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...(read more)