As a network administrator I am frequently required to create scripts to retrieve particular information about users from Active Directory. Here are some useful AD attributes for you to use in your scripts.
DisplayName
cn - Common Name
mail = email address
c = Country
homephone = no explanation needed here
l = City
mobile
postalCode = post code
st = State
streetAddress
telephoneNumber = Office number
whenCreated - [...]
Since upgrading one of my domain controllers to Windows 2008 I had noticed a couple of errors related to VSS around the normal backup times, so I decided to investigate these. The primary message I was receiving was:
Backup started at ‘dd/mm/yyyy time’ failed with the following error code ‘2155348237′ (Enumeration of files failed.). Please rerun [...]
Recently while testing an upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2007 in a virtual test environment I got an error message. You know one of those error messages that Microsoft has a really wacky cause for. In this particular case the error message was:
“The FSMO role ownership could not be verified because its directory partition has not [...]
The latest versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader have seemed to have introduced an annoying bug. When you open a PDF attachment from Microsoft Outlook 2003 after about 5 seconds an error appears and closes Acrobat Reader.
“Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error!” or some variation of it.
The problem is associated with folder redirection in the user profile. [...]
