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Growth sometimes brings out the unexpected flaws in designs. What seems like a quick solution, may intern lead to what I have affectionately call 'Learning Opportunities'.After a recent expansion from a single domain environment to a multi-domain forest, the following VB.Net function ceased functioning for retrieving the user's full name. Public Shared Function GetADUserName() As String Dim returnString As String = String .Empty If HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated Then...

We have all been in the position where we have started a new job with an existing organization where security was somewhat lax. Inevitably during the process of locking the network down you have to deal with the VPN / Dial-up access problem. The first step is to determine who already has access. This is fairly easy to accomplish using LDAP filters. (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(msNPAllowDialin=TRUE)) This filter will show you all of the user accounts that have Allow Access checked...

Over the last month I have been working more intensely with Windows 2003 Active Directory. In this process I have found the need to create custom filters to make finding objects and updating security policies easier. So thought it would be helpful to others to share my set of custom filters. To use these filters you need to open the ADUC snap in and right click on Saved Queries. Select 'New' then 'Query'. Click the 'Define Query' button. A new window will open. In the Find...