Jerald.Net

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...

In continuing to audit a network, the number of accounts in Active Directory did not match employee records, nor previous asset records. While using the interval variable for lastLogonTimeStamp will find accounts that have not logged on in a specific time period, it will not find accounts which have...

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...

This week I was faced with finding a way to clean up a few of the query based distribution lists that were created by a previous consultant group. The major problem with the queries is that they didn't take into account the dynamics of organizational turn over. The query based DL's were configured...

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...