This has blog has moved to a new home! Please update links.

This blog is moving to http://jeftek.com

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:26:04 GMT

I recently came across the new Graffiti CMS system, and thought it might be time to move my blog off of WLS. WLS was great, but I wanted something I could dig deeper into the code on.

So if you are following this site, please head on over to http://jeftek.com

I'll leave all of the previous posts here for searching sake, but I have replicated all of the content to the new site. I updated the existing posts with links to the new location so it can still be found

Hope to you see you there.

Technology, Gadgets, Directory Services and Identity Management Blog at JefTek.com

The new RSS feed link is http://feeds.feedburner.com/JefTek if you want to update your feed reader.

Zune Multi-Format Support on Vista64

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:33:11 GMT

Looking for Information on using Zune with x64 Vista?

Please visit the article at it's new location on my new blog at: Zune Multi-Format Support on Vista64

Zune, Codecs, and Debugging

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:59:49 GMT

Zune Codecs and Debugging has moved to JefTek.com

ADAM, userProxy, and sidHistory: Not always what you expected

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:36:16 GMT

ADAM (ADLDS), userProxy, and sidHistory: Not always what you expected has moved to it's new location on JefTek.com

ILM and CryptoAdmin: XMA to the Rescue!

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:03:57 GMT

ILM and CryptoAdmin: XMA to the Rescue! has moved to a new Blog location at JefTek.com

ILM 2007 - "Out Of Memory Error" Hot fix is available

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:40:50 GMT

ILM 2007/MIIS 2003 - "Out Of Memory Error" Hot fix is available has moved to JefTek.com

Welcome to the MetaVerse

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:33:43 GMT

Welcome to the MetaVerse for MIIS/ILM has moved to its new location on JefTek.com

Music from Zune Commercials

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:05:19 GMT

Looking for the post on Music from Zune Commercials? I have moved most of the old content from this blog to my new blog.

You can read the original article at my JefTek.com blog here Music from Zune Commercials

The limits of Active Directory

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:38:43 GMT

The limits of Active Directory has moved to my new blog location at JefTek.com

ADAM/ADLDS Anonymous Bind with bind Redirection issue when passing NULL passwords

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:34:54 GMT

ADAM/ADLDS Anonymous Bind with bind Redirection issue when passing NULL passwords has moved to its new location on my blog at JefTek.com

64bit Domain Controllers and Event Log Max Sizing

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:44:29 GMT

64bit Domain Controllers and Event Log Max Sizing has moved to it's new location on my blog at JefTek.com

ILM/MIIS: FlowRuleName naming conventions

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:01:36 GMT

ILM/MIIS: FlowRuleName naming conventions has moved to the new location on JefTek.com

MIIS: MapAttributeForJoin Video and format example

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:21:28 GMT

I was catching up on my RSS feeds today, and I stumbled upon Alex Tcherniakhovski's video on Very practical example of using MapAttributesForJoin Method. It's an excellent video tutorial on using the MAFJ function.

In summary it goes into converting the data type's to a common data type to map them for a join rule.

I tend to use MAFJ quite heavily because I seem to deal with data systems that store the common data value in various formats.

I would say the most common one that I use, is the normalizing the format for storing the US-SSN identifier between the DS and the MV. Since often you will not be able to have the DataSource be formatted to what you have in the MV, this is a simple way to control that via extensions.

case "MAFJ_SSN":
{
	// MVentry.SSN = "123456789"
	// CSentry.SSN = "123-45-6789"
	// In order to make them "match" for join they need to
	// be equalized in format

	// using RegularExpressions replace the - in the SSN string
	string mySSN = regex.Replace(csentry["SSN"].Value,"-","").toString();	
		
	// mySSN = "123456789"

	// Add the formatted string to the Values collection to
	// be compared for JOIN.

	values.Add(mySSN);
}
break;

It should be noted that "values" is a ValueCollection so you could fill it with multiple formats of the value you wish to join upon. I suppose this could be used to map a persons name who might be "Joe", "Joey", "Josef", or "Joseph", so that it correctly joins the "Joe Smith" in the metaverse. I could see where you would want to join on a common name vs legal format of a name in some systems, but I have never had reason to do this myself.

tags: Microsoft+Identity+Integration+Server, MIIS, Extension

ILM/MIIS: Import Resolution rules for multiple CS AD objects to a single MV object: Tagging

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:09:05 GMT

ILM/MIIS: Import Resolution rules for multiple CS AD objects to a single MV object: Tagging has moved to my new blog at JefTek.com

Do you want to create your own Windows Live Writer Plugin?

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:15:51 GMT

Some of you may have noticed I've been keeping track of plugins that the community is developing on one of my blog posts. Others have been sending me links to their plugins, but the list is getting out of hand, which is a good thing.

If you want to develop your own plugin, there is an excellent article from Keyvan Nayyeri on writing plugins here.

You can join others in posting your projects on the common section on CodePlex for all toe share and see as well.

tags: C#, Windows+Live+Writer, Plugin, Coding

New Windows Writer Plugins for 08/21/2006

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:38:56 GMT

Peder's Custom Tagging Plugin - info - download - 08/24/2006

Del.icio.us Tagging - info - download - 08/21/2006

Get more (12) Windows Live Writer Plugins

tags: WIndows+Live+Writer, Plugin, del.icio.us, tagging

New Windows Live Writer Plugins for 8/20/2006

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:38:15 GMT

Steve Dunn's Code Formatter - info - download - 08/20/2006

Get more (10) Windows Live Writer Plugins

tags: Windows Live Writer, Code Format, Plugin

Free Software from Microsoft

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:17:37 GMT

Here is a list of some free software utilities and add-ons.

(this is posted more for me to go back and refer to at a later time)

Windows Live Writer Plugins for 08/18/2006

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:39:56 GMT

Marc Jennings has released his YouTube/Google video embedding plugin. (WLS still doesn't support embeding video BTW...hrm.)

Videos

Embed YouTube/Google Video - info - download - 08/18/2006

Get more (9) Windows Live Writer Plugins Here

tags: Windows+Live+Writer, Google+Video, YouTube, Plugin

LDAP queries are spaced out...

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:01:14 GMT

LDAP queries are spaced out... has moved to my new blog at JefTek.com

Photo Album: Blog Images

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:50:22 GMT

Blog Images

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Photo Album: Lakefront Brewery Tour

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:24:00 GMT

Lakefront Brewery Tour


Stacy and Tan in the Beer House at the Lakefront Brewery						Nitro, our tour guide on the brwery Tour
						Fermentor Moe

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Photo Album: Family Guy Live

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:27:41 GMT

Family Guy Live


Outside the Chicago theatre for Family Guy Live
						The Family Guy Live Program
Local Radio DJs starting the show

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Photo Album: Family Guy Live

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:18:55 GMT

Family Guy Live

Outside the Chicago theatre for Family Guy Live

Photo Album: Key West

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:08:19 GMT

Key West


		Conch Fritters!	Stacy looking all cute before the wedding
Angie and Natha's wedding cake	yeah boy!
	The southern most point marker

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Photo Album: Jef's 30th Birthday

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:55:48 GMT

Jef's 30th Birthday

Photo Album: Belgium Trip 2007

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:14:30 GMT

Belgium Trip 2007

Photo Album: Video Games Live 2006 - Chicago

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:11:51 GMT

Video Games Live 2006 - Chicago

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Photo Album: Relay for Life 2006

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:26:51 GMT

Relay for Life 2006


		No Bullying!				One of the booths
						Dr B on stage
		More of Dr B

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Photo Album: NJ Visit 2006

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:53:46 GMT

NJ Visit 2006


Bananna Eyes!
Stacy pointing to her ancestors entry at the name wall at Ellis Island	Us at the Ellisa Island museum	Stacd Joe!
Joe mugging it up.

Book List: Nerd Books

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:17:45 GMT

Nerd Books

Charles Petzold: Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)
Wallace B. McClure: Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (Programmer to Programmer)
David Hunter: Beginning XML, 4th Edition (Programmer to Programmer)
John Robbins: Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
Dominick Baier: Developing More-Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications (Pro Developer)
An excellent book for those looking to secure ASP.NET applications through integrated security
Dharma Shukla: Essential Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Christian Nagel: Professional C# 2005 (Wrox Professional Guides)
Joe Kaplan: The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
What I would consider the "Bible" for developers looking to integrate into Active Directory for services
Craig McMurtry: Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed (WCF) (Unleashed)
Adam Nathan: Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) (Unleashed)
An excellent book for those looking to learn WPF/XAML. The color code examples surprised me on how effective it was for conveying the code.

Custom List: Internet Radio Stations

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:58:48 GMT

Internet Radio Stations

tun3r.com
A great web site to sample internet radio stations
BBC's Radio 1
Home of the UK's Essential Mix, one of the best venues for trance and house music in the world and on the web
Slam.FM
One of the best stations out of the netherlands for trance. Home of ARMIN VAN BUUREN, and A State of Trance
Digitially Imported FM
Hardstyle Techno
Radio Aktiv
Ddance.fm

Custom List: Favorite Tools

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:38:51 GMT

Favorite Tools

Err.exe
CLI tool to decode Windows Error codes
ADfind
Theb est CLI tool for querying AD and ADAM.
ADmod
The sister tool to Joe's ADfind, which allows you to modify entries in AD and ADAM
ADmap
Import your Active Directory structure into Visio for documentation
NBlookup
A CLI WINS lookup tool similiar to NSlookup for DNS
NotePad++
A great NotePad replacement for file editing
Paint.NET
A great Graphics editing suite similar to Photoshop, but writtenin .NET and FREE
PortQry
PortQry is an excellent tool for querying hte status of ports to help with firewall troubleshooting

Custom List: Windows Resources

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:42:30 GMT

Windows Resources

Using Diagnostic Logging with Windows
list of all diagnostic loggings that can be enabled
AD Replication Lowdown
A nice article on using repadmin to diagnose AD replication

Custom List: Site Feeds

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:05:35 GMT

Site Feeds

Subscribe to RSS Feed

Book List: Books I want to read

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:35:26 GMT

Books I want to read

Douglas Coupland: Jpod

Book List: Book List

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:59:16 GMT

Custom List: My Links

Fri, 26 May 2006 03:19:28 GMT

My Links

myTravels
Windows Live Local Collection of places I've traveled too

Custom List: MIIS Resources

Wed, 17 May 2006 03:28:36 GMT

MIIS Resources

MIIStats
MIIS Statistics Module
MIIS Experts
MIIS Experts site and FAQ
MIIS User Group (yahoo)
MIIS User Group on Yahoo Groups
Microsoft Identity and Access Management
MS Docs on IAM
iDM with MIIS - developer.com
A good article demonstrating the basics of MIIS