FIM CM and SQL APIs– The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object
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...
View Article(not quite OT) Pixar Renderman and the Azure cloud..
Very cool news from the recent PDC - http://www.blendertorenderman.org/2010/11/pixar-and-microsoft-cloud-rendering.html
View ArticleMerry Christmas and Happy New Year ( almost )
Things have been busy, but I do plan on doing more frequent posts in the near future. spat
View ArticleAudit policy not registering audits
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...
View ArticleDC fails logons or experiences LDAP timeouts
DC fails logons or experiences LDAP timeouts This was an interesting one which rolled by recently, and it’s a looong post so I apologize ahead of time. Let’s start with the end user experience and...
View ArticleAutomate Forest trust creation
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:...
View ArticleTimeouts or delays connecting to WinRM
Ran into an interesting issue the other day where WinRM connections were taking 15-20s per connection to the domain controllers and due to many connections from an automation system, connections...
View ArticleExchange 2013 SP1: OWA native support for ADFS!
It's been a long time coming but we finally have native support for ADFS authentication for OWA and ECP. Native means no more hacking away at the web.config , messing with fedutil etc.. etc.. It's all...
View ArticleAdd claims with claim name..
Just a reminder to self.. Wanted to add multiple claims and needed to also have the name specified - not sure where this was documented but here it is anyway - maybe i overlooked it somewhere....
View ArticleAzure batch services and Blender
They have released the Azure batch services addon for Blender: https://github.com/Azure/azure-batch-apps-blender and http://dl.windowsazure.com/batchapps/blender/guide_setup.html#blender This is...
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