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Sep 25, 2012
Do You Have Users Hiding in Your Enterprise Servers?
Are you in control of the user accounts across your enterprise systems? Defunct user accounts, duplicate IDs, excessive rights – do these plague your current accounts database? More importantly – how many account databases are you maintaining…or failing to maintain?Identity services like authentication and single sign-on are critical in today’s business environments. Managing these services is... read more
Sep 25, 2012
Exchange 2003 Alias not working
I renamed an account in ADUC and I changed the username, the accountdetails (name, address, phone #, etc) as well as the “Alias” field onthe Exchange General tab. (The email address was staying the same.) Imade sure the GAL was correct and then updated the Offline AddressBook. In Outlook, I went to “Send/Receive” and “Download Address Book”.However, when I... read more
Sep 25, 2012
The Machine SID Duplication Myth (and Why Sysprep Matters)
On November 3 2009, Sysinternals retired NewSID, a utility that changes a computers machine Security Identifier (machine SID). I wrote NewSID in 1997 (its original name was NTSID) because the only tool available at the time for changing machine SIDs was the Microsoft Sysprep tool, and Sysprep doesn’t support changing the SIDs of computers that have applications installed. A... read more
