July 30, 2010

Dear visitors, I hope you have been well! I haven't had much time to write here, I have been quite busy (I know, we all are!). In the beginning of June, I managed to get quite badly ill after a fitness session. Nothing sport related, rather the effort triggered a

May 11, 2010

Hello, I'm back with an Active Directory / VBS article for a change. Many of those who work in a corporate environment may be challenged by business entities and folder/share/application owners to deliver a report of who has access to a folder/share/application. In simple Active Directory implementations, group membership is

March 9, 2010

Have you ever dealt with Active Directory nested group memberships? Have you ever gone through a whole file server trying to figure out who has real, effective permissions on specific folders? Does it sounds like “been there, done that” to your ears? Well, me too. I’ve had to deal with

August 20, 2008

We’ve had one of our AD Domain Controllers reporting that it didn’t have the SACL right. This was logged constantly on event ID 2080. We tried nearly everything but without success. This morning I came up with a solution to fix it, while trying to desperately find the ntSecurityDescriptor property

June 30, 2008

Despite dealing with the (bad) tonsillitis, today (especially towards the end) proved to be productive. On tonight’s menu : dead domain controller demotion, plus checking Service Principal Names duplicate entries. That made me discover a lovely little utility included in windows : LDP.exe Removing the SPN entry drove our Sharepoint