Quantcast
Channel: Spat's WebLog (Steve Patrick)
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 39 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article

Merry 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Audit 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

DC 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 Article


Automate 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 Article

Timeouts 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 Article

Exchange 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 Article


Add 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Azure 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...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 39 View Live




Latest Images