by skufel | Jan 23, 2012 | Directory Services, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
By default ADLDS does not allow to reset password on users created in ADLDS repository over connection without SSL. As sometimes there is a need to build test environment with ADLDS quick, SSL is the last thing which anyone would care about, especially if main thing...
by skufel | Jan 23, 2012 | Directory Services, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
By default password policy from Active Directory domain will impact ADLDS and users created in ADLDS instance. To prevent domain policies from enforcing password restrictions and rules on ADLDS users one simple setting has to be adjusted: ADAMDisablePasswordPolicies...
by skufel | Jan 4, 2012 | Databases, Directory Services, Infrastructure, Scripting
I think it’s common problem as Active Directory gets bigger in organizations, control over content of that mission-critical component seems to be lost. Same happened in my place. In addition to that we had to provide information from AD on a regular basis in a...
by skufel | Dec 15, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Messaging, Scripting, SysAdmin
In some companies performance is measured based on number of emails someone sent. regardless the reason for those emails and content, what matters the most is if someone is sending something to others. So, I was asked to produce quick count how many emails one...
by skufel | Dec 10, 2011 | Infrastructure, Scripting, Windows
Background image on logon screen os common issue with pre-installed servers, for example from Dell. That makes accessing those systems via Remote Desktop painful and slow (it happenes that serer is shipped to location, racked and stacked, and then whole configuration...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Databases, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin
By default when I installed mysql on openSUSE, root password for mysql access was blank. First thing then is to change password as this might pose security issue. First of all login to openSUSE using root account and then: lab-net-01:~ #mysql Welcome to the MySQL...
