Protected Users Group Policy Bugs

So apparently members of the Protected Users group can’t edit Wired 802.1x group policy. Wireless 802.1x? Sure. Every other group policy setting? Yup. Wired 802.1x? Can’t load the snapin. Got to love the consistency there, Microsoft.

2019-11-30 · 1 min · Adam

Actually Configuring The Exchange Availability Service In A Cross-Forest Environment

If you’ve ever looked at configuring the Exchange Availability Service to allow cross-forest free/busy lookups you’ve probably realised that the documentation surrounding it is awful. Get-MailboxServer | Add-ADPermission -Accessrights Extendedright -Extendedrights "ms-Exch-EPI-Token-Serialization" -User "<Remote Forest Domain>\Exchange servers" From here, doesn’t even work for a start, because Get-MailboxServer doesn’t return the correct identity objects for Add-ADPermission. Once you’ve worked out how to get that sorted and done your Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace -Forestname ContosoForest.com -AccessMethod PerUserFB -UseServiceAccount:$true You’re probably thinking that you’re done, but it usually isn’t that simple....

2017-06-09 · 3 min · Adam

A Failure of Comprehension

There are three things that almost everyone that I meet in IT seems incapable of understanding; Share Permissions vs NTFS Permissions, NTFS Full Control vs Modify permissions and Group Policy vs Local Permissions. For those who don’t know, Windows folders presented over a network via CIFS share have two levels of permissions: Share Permissions, which are mostly a lingering reminder of the pre-NTFS days, when they were only way to control access to network resources and are pretty basic with only Read, Change & Full Control available to you....

2010-11-23 · 3 min · Adam

Use Eventlogs Properly!

Windows has a centralised logging facility for applications; the Windows Event Log. If you’re writing applications for Windows then for the love of God please use it properly. DO create your own event message DLL(s) where appropriate to avoid your events looking like this DO log important errors and warnings. Application failures, communication issues, invalid configuration data and the like. Things that will help administrators to troubleshoot issues that may occur....

2010-11-08 · 2 min · Adam