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	<description>- activity of Active Directory and the rest</description>
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		<title>PowerShell : How many users were created in an office since x number of days ?</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200912/powershell-how-many-users-were-created-in-an-office-since-x-number-of-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A request came in from the Access Control team requesting that they be provided with the users that have been created in a particular office since last 90 days. As usual, PowerShell (with QAD cmdlets) has very simple one liners you can retrieve this information with. You may also use this to export this data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Nesting Reference Chart</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200909/group-nesting-reference-chart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Active Directory Groups Nesting restrictions is an often-discussed topic among my peers especially in a multi-domain forest and often a question raised in forums and mailing lists. Although there have been some great blogs written that dive deep into the technical restrictions, I personally needed a simple reference chart that I could refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is ADRAP Scoping Tool ?</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200907/adrap-scoping-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ADHC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft earlier this month released the AD Risk Assessment Program Scoping Tool to public. My look at it tells me that this tool essentially more fancily does what ADRAP Sutiability Scripts did, which came with ADRAP Snapshot Tool, which of course came when you had the official ADRAP engagement. ADRAP could be extremely benefical for any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Infamous /3gb Startup Switch</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200806/the-infamous-3gb-startup-switch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it ? Windows Server 2003 includes support for a startup switch that lets you tune the allocation of use of memory and memory address space. Regardless of the amount of physical memory in your system, Windows uses a virtual address space of 4 GB, with 2 GB allocated to user-mode processes (for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to find out your server uptime</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200804/how-to-find-out-your-server-uptime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using Uptime utility from Microsoft you can get your server uptime (i.e time since the last reboot) which can come in handy particularly when you are trying to troubleshoot a server&#8217;s unexpected reboot and failures. Uptime.exe can be used to display the current uptime of the local or remote system. Optionally, it can also scan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to rename a Windows Server 2008 domain</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200804/how-to-rename-a-windows-server-2008-domain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously you have been able to use RENDOM utility provided by Microsoft to rename your Window 2000 and Windows Server 2003 domains. However in Windows Server 2008 domain you don&#8217;t have to separately install Rendom utility. It gets installed as part of &#8220;Active Directory Domain Services&#8221; role when you promote a server to the DC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevent users from joining workstations to domain (at their will)</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200803/prevent-users-from-joining-workstations-to-domain-at-their-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every domain has a default setting for ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota value 10. This means that any user can add up to 10 machines to a domain. You can modify this object in directory by using ADSIedit tool to prevent this behavior. Warning: Using ADSIedit can have adverse effects on your Active Directoy environment, if not handled with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find out where and why an Account Lockout happened</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200803/find-out-where-and-why-an-account-lockout-happened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where Account Lockouts save us from brute force password attacks and help us standardize our environment for password policies, sometimes it can be painful to troubleshoot and find out why and where it happened. Microsoft does provide us with the &#8216;Account Lockout Management Tools&#8217; suite which can be very handy to diagnose the root cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Import AD subnets into Reverse Lookup Zones</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200803/import-ad-subnets-into-reverse-lookup-zones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200803/import-ad-subnets-into-reverse-lookup-zones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have a task on your hand for your Active Directory environment but it isn&#8217;t an easy one, or lets just say that not many people have come across having a need for it (so not a whole lot you can google for). I recently had a situation like this. Basically in our AD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reset Active Directory Restore Mode password</title>
		<link>http://www.shariqsheikh.com/blog/index.php/200803/reset-active-directory-restore-mode-password/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the most forgotten password is the one for Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) because it&#8217;s created only when a DC is built, and used only during critical DC recovery operations, which hopefully does not happen very often. Not knowing this password can prevent a successful recovery. If you don&#8217;t know your DSRM password and [...]]]></description>
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