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- "Crushing dissent with a Powerpoint presentation"
- "I'm not happy, Bob."
- "Ignorance is bliss, my friend..."
- "No such attribute" when importing LDIF files.
- "Script for an Administrator's Tear"
- "See, I'm an IT guy..."
- "Well, maybe a donut would've helped..."
- $Laura.set-mode -rant
- “Geneva” Beta 2 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- “Geneva” Beta 2, Identity Developer Training Kit
- “Geneva” Server Beta 2 Oddity
- “Philly SharePoint Saturday” – I’ll be there!
- “Wer immer du bist? Ich hasse dich!”
- *looks around* *blows dust off the keyboard*
- *sings* On the road again.
- .NET library for LDAP
- 10 Days Left 'til Philly Code Camp!
- 15 more minutes of fame.
- 24
- 24, New Season.
- A Book Every Identity Person Should Read
- A Penn State Fan Laments...
- A Whole New Twist on RAID Redundancy
- A change of pace…
- A cultural lesson that I've learned in the past few weeks
- A feature request for the LiveMeeting Offline Viewer toy.
- A friend of mine reminded me of this recently.
- A funny line from "Titanic" that I'd completely forgotten about.
- A genius brettsh quote, by way of ~eric
- A good day for customer service today, I guess.
- A note to all city dwellers visiting Redmond.
- A point to ponder.
- A review of The Dark Knight while it's fresh in my head.
- A scene from Laura's life:
- A swear-to-God AD provider in Powershell
- A sword day…a red day…and the sun rises.
- A travel disaster of epic proportions.
- AD FS 2.0 Step-by-Step & How-To Guides
- AD FS Web Discussion Forum
- AD FS and PKI, the Saga Continues...
- AD FSv2 Announces Results of Liberty Alliance Testing
- AD FSv2 TechNet Documentation Updated for RC
- AD FSv2 reaches Release Candidate Milestone!
- AD LDS Instance fails to start, throws 0x8007041d
- AD LDS for Windows 7
- ADFS 2.0 Around the Interwebs
- ADFS 2.0 Liberty Alliance Results
- ADFS 2.0 to ship Wednesday!
- ADFS 2.0, ADFS 2.0, Get your ADFS 2.0 here!
- ADFS gets RBAC-y
- ADFS/SharePoint webcast w/Brjann Brekkan
- ADFS2/Shibboleth interop
- ADFS: TNG, and one more for the quote book.
- ADFSv2 – SDK Updated for RC
- ADFSv2 RC & IIS Certificates
- Active Directory Cookbook, Third Edition
- Active Directory Forest Recovery White Paper
- Active Directory Tombstone Recovery Tool
- Advice to live by.
- Ah yes, now I remember why we bought this townhouse.
- All settled in for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup.
- Almost caught up on sleep, thankgod.
- Already filled my 1x/month "USN Rollback" user forum quotient for June.
- Am I the only person who found the new South Park to be more disturbing than funny?
- Amazon Web Services & ADFS
- American culture shock.
- An "Incredibles" Moment
- An Active Directory poem for your Friday.
- An Anglophilic Sort of Evening
- An Identity Architect Ruminates on SharePoint
- An Identity Dilemna
- An Oops of a completely different sort.
- An Open Letter to the Philadelphia Flyers
- An adage to live by.
- An interesting linguistic exercise…
- An open letter
- An open letter to the Philadelphia Flyers, Part II
- An unexpected musical discovery.
- And in other news...
- And now to wander bleary-eyed into the office...
- And speaking of identity...
- And then there were two...
- And what platitude of the sporting world has proven true once again in this Stanley Cup series?
- Another one for the quote book.
- Anybody know why the TransferRoleOwnership() method doesn't seem to work in Powershell?
- Apropos of nothing technical, but...
- As I have been remiss in my Rose Bowl trash-talk...
- As a Sean Bean fan, this amused me.
- As your hostess returns to Redmond for a week...
- At first I thought I was losing my mind.
- Attention all Seattle-ish residents currently within eyeshot:
- Attention please: let it be known that I am a total sap.
- BING!
- BING! thoughts
- BPOS Deployments – notes from the field
- Back from Tech Ed
- Battlestar Galactica, Season 4
- Be it known that LHA Consulting works with some fantastic people.
- Be it known that, for a runner...
- Be it known...
- Because I love a puzzler.
- Because my best man now has this stuck in my head...
- Become a Web Debugging Virtuoso with Fiddler
- Better to fight your battles with duct tape...duct tape makes you smart.
- Bidding Farewell.
- Bing v. Google
- Bizarre-ness.
- Blatantly lifted from Brad Turner, a.k.a. Randy Rhoads. :-)
- Bouncy Slide with a Twist
- CLM Configuration Error
- CUL8R!
- Cabana, Last Day
- Can someone please fax me some chicken soup?
- Change control in a microcosm - VMWare running on my laptop.
- Claims-Based Authentication & Authorization on Codeplex
- Claims-Based Authentication Patterns & Practices Guide updated for ADFSv2 RC
- Claims-Based Authentication and Authorization Guide
- Claims-Based Identity & Access Control Guide RTM (MS Patterns & Practices)
- Claims-Based Identity CodePlex Project
- Cloud Computing Privacy Concerns
- Code Camp 2009.1 wrap-up
- Comparison Eating.
- Confessions of a Public Speaker
- Configuring ADFS with Amazon Web Services
- Continuous message on the IAH loudspeaker.
- Convenience vs. Accountability – the Federation Spectrum. (Part I)
- Convenience vs. Accountability - the Federation Spectrum. (Part II)
- Convenience vs. Accountability - the Federation Spectrum. (Part III)
- Could there be a more perfect movie (besides The Dark Knight)...
- Creating an ADFS/CA SiteMinder SharePoint SSO lab
- DEC 2008 - I have agenda angst!
- DEC, Day 2 (aka: Dear Chicago Hilton, please fix your air-conditioning. Love, All of Us)
- Dear US Airways:
- Dear Word 2007:
- December update
- Dedication.
- Defining a constant in Powershell
- Definition of a bad day.
- Definition of a good client.
- Deploying the Group Policy Preferences CSE via WSUS
- Developer & IT Pro Event in Philadelphia: Saturday April 18th.
- Directory Experts Conferece 2008
- Directory Experts Conference, Day One
- Doctor Who Season 4 Finale
- Dogfooding.
- Don't mind me, just seeing if this Windows Live Writer thing is everything it's cracked up to be.
- DotNetRocks!
- Dr. Horrible, Act III, is online!
- Drowning in DST.
- EDUCAUSE Joins InCommon Federation, Catalyst award to Federated Identity Management
- Enumerate all DCs in the local domain - Powershell
- Eugenio Pace on Identity Federation, WIF, and ADFS 2.0
- Even with the still-painful memories of the '97 Cup Finals lingering...
- Event Log Sizing for Windows Server 2003/2008
- Exchange 2010 Provisioning in ILM/FIM
- FIM 2010 Hands-On Lab in Irvine, CA
- FIM 2010 RC1 Ships!
- FIM 2010 Technical Overview
- Federated AuthZ, and a Quote Book Golden Oldie
- Federated Identity Management Legal Task Force
- Federated Identity in Practice
- Federating Sharepoint, Lesson 1.
- Federation Trust Partner Certificates
- Finally caught up
- Finished “Confessions of a Public Speaker”
- First create a unity of purpose, then take over the world.
- For those of you who don't read Brian's blog...
- Freemanic Paracusia
- Frivolous electronics purchases.
- Fun with “Geneva” Dogfood
- Fun with Human Resources paperwork
- Game Six.
- Gartner acquires the Burton Group
- Geneva Beta 2 Resource Page
- Geneva/MOSS Step-by-Step Guide
- Good luck, Donovan!
- Google Research site on OAuth and Federated Identity
- Group Policy Preferences CSE for XP & 2K3 has shipped.
- Happy "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"!
- Has anyone else been watching "Whale Wars"?
- Hear ye, hear ye.
- Hockey humour.
- Holy mackerel, Don LaFontaine is dead!
- How cool is dnscmd?
- How the Internet enables laziness.
- How to Annoy Laura on a Monday Morning
- I can’t believe…
- I can’t put a finger on why…
- I do like it when the logical choice happens to be the one that works.
- I have an irrational dislike of the new "friendly"-sounding IVR systems.
- I have an unusual love of math humor.
- I heart dnscmd
- I heart the Courtyard Marriott
- I think that, for the next two weeks...
- I’ve got an fdisk and I’m not afraid to use it…
- I'm out of ankles!
- IDA Blogroll Entry
- If Joe McCarthy did AD troubleshooting:
- If computers could speak.
- If you get the joke, you will be joining me in laughing until you cry. Otherwise, you will just think I'm strange.
- Information Card Issuance CTP
- It’s not just about Federation
- It’s positively criminal.
- It's official, I have drunk the federation kool-aid
- It's official, football is back.
- It's official.
- It's that time of year again.
- It's the little things.
- Kim Cameron on Identity, Federation and the Cloud
- Kudos to Marriott tech support.
- Kuppinger-Cole Webinar Series on Fed & Claims-Based Auth
- Late notice: Microsoft Student-to-Business Webcast Series Panelist
- Late-notice shameless pluggery.
- Latest book review
- Life's Lessons Learned from "Dogfights"
- MIX10 Identity Sessions available online
- MSDN Webcast: Security Talk: Azure Federated Identity Security Using ADFS 2.0 (Level 300)
- Magne F.
- Meat. It’s the other red meat.
- Meet the New ADFS!
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Accelerator
- Microsoft Online Feature Roadmap
- Minasi Conference 2010
- Minasi Conference, Virginia Beach
- More for-do loop genius.
- More issues with v3 Certificate Templates
- More quotes from the DEC quote book.
- Mr. Hammer threw a car at me!
- My 2009 calendar is filling up already.
- My god, an actual technical post. (Run! Run for your lives!)
- My hometown has just been dissed on the Colbert Report
- My most common responses to questions in AD forums.
- My obligatory "Blogging live from the Tech Ed floor" post.
- NPower PA Technology Awards Luncheon
- Nathan blogs!
- Neil Gaiman book-signing tour scheduled for October
- New in the ADFSv2 Release Candidate
- New movie trailers
- Next-Generation Active Directory
- No, joe, I don't consider AD a commodity service...
- Nostalgia
- Note to self…
- Note to self.
- OCG Blog Launch
- Obligatory Girlie-Post
- Office 2010 Technical Preview
- Oh drat.
- Oh look! It’s PKI again!
- Okay, forget Kentucky.
- Okay, one more sports interlude
- On AD/Exchange integration.
- On federation and overloaded keywords
- OpenID Welcomes new Board Member
- Paraphrased from one of the Philly free papers
- Pardon me whilst I dance the dance of joy.
- Part 51 of the ongoing series: "So just how cool is dnscmd?"
- Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry
- Philadelphia Flyers humor
- Philly .NET Code Camp next Saturday
- Philly .Net Code Camp
- Photoshop brilliance.
- Polk State College IT Showcase
- Post-Event Recording: "What's New in 2008 R2 Active Directory" O'Reilly Webcast
- Preparing for an unpleasant conversation tomorrow.
- Quote book
- Quote book.
- Quote-Book
- Quote-book
- Quote-book
- Quote-book.
- RODC Branch Office Guide Has Shipped!
- RODC hotfix roll-up for XP/2003 compatibility
- RODCs, Account Lockouts, and WAN-offline behavior
- Random Marillion lyric du jour
- Re-awarded as Directory Services MVP for 2010
- Remember how I said I have this thing for math humour?
- Remote printer installation.
- Risk-Averseness in IT
- Rose Bowl!
- Run time
- SANS Training Class
- Scripting / SysAdmin meme
- Security done right.
- Self-signed cert requirements in the ADFS step-by-step guide.
- Server Manager from the Command Line
- Shaping the Higher Education Cloud
- SharePoint 2010 & Claims-Based Identity
- SharePoint, Identity & Claims, Oh My!
- Shiny ADFS Interop demo
- Shooting yourself in the foot with certificate rollover for fun and profit.
- Shortest. Release Candidate. Ever.
- Shut up and Vote
- Shut up and patch.
- Snakes on a Plane.
- Snow? In Seattle? Surely you jest.
- So guess what's the most important thing I've learned in 3 years of Computer Science classes in grad school?
- So there’s a Geneva shout-out on the Bing home page photo today…
- So there's this band I love and that nobody else has ever heard of
- So. Powershell.
- Soaking up Wi-Fi in Logan International Airport
- Somebody save me from the workmen in my house.
- Someday I will understand...
- Someday I'll start doing better than a "once-a-month" blog post.
- Someone needs to perfect the "Feline-English translator".
- Sometimes it’s still the simple things.
- Sorrow.
- Speaking engagements.
- Speaking event
- Spending a Saturday morning stood in-line at the DMV...
- Stanley Cup Game 6
- Steak.
- Step-by-Step Guide for AD FS in Windows Server 2008
- Stephen T. Colbert is running for President...of the Marvel Comic America.
- Stupid Google Tricks
- Stupid Kentucky.
- Suffering Mightily Under the Iron Fist of PKI
- Sweet Mother of God, my Kindle has already shipped.
- Syncing Passwords to the Cloud: Sign of the Apocalypse?
- SysAdmins of the world, feel the pain.
- TEC 2009 Agenda Announced...wow!
- TEC Berlin, almost here!
- TEC Europe, 2009
- TEC Match Report
- TEC Sessions Posted to Quest YouTube Site
- Tech Ed 2006!
- Tech Ed 2009 Edge Interview
- Tech Ed North America 2009
- Tech Ed Wrap-Up
- TechNet Events Unleashed: The Microsoft Virtualization Tour!
- Technet Tiki Hut Tour - Philadelphia
- Telephone script amusement
- Thank sweet heaven.
- That time of year again…
- The 2 Rules of AD Troubleshooting
- The ID Element
- The Infrastructure Optimization Model Re-envisioned
- The Internet gods have smiled upon me, it seems.
- The Interwebs are alive with ADFS today
- The Iron Fist of PKI strikes again
- The Legal Thicket of Federated Identity Management
- The Second Rule of Directory Data Integrity
- The TV remake of "The Andromeda Strain" gets a reasonable thumbs-up.
- The USPS giveth, and the USPS taketh away. (Or at least "giveth not.")
- The Universe conspires against me, once again...
- The Windows Azure “One-Pager”
- The best time
- The frequent traveler security checklist
- The hazards of stale directory data…
- The new Microsoft Connect site look-and-feel is...weird.
- There are only 2 positions on a snowboard:
- There is no look of gratitude...
- Things you miss out on, living in a city.
- This banner cracks me up.
- This just in: ocsetup is case-sensitive
- This week's random TSA cracking of the whip.
- Travel
- Travel amusement
- Travel day humor.
- Travel humor
- Travel rant
- Truth in advertising.
- US Election Day PSA
- Unable to browse SP2010 site by FQDN from the SP server itself.
- Understatement.
- Upcoming Events
- Upcoming Speaking Events
- Upcoming travel.
- Usability nifty-ness
- Vendor without a clue.
- WIF Training Materials Updated
- Wednesday morning Cabana report
- Welcome a new Directory Services MVP!
- Well there's 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back...
- Whale Wars is back…
- What we can learn about IdAM from the process of moving house.
- When loyalty pays off…
- Where's the ThinkGeek marketing team when I need them?
- While I’m in a “vendor loyalty” mood…
- Why Running is Hard, by Laura E. Hunter
- Why my VMs are running on VMWare rather than Virtual Server.
- Why thank you… (one for the Quote-Book)
- Win7 - Further applause.
- Win7 RC – fully loaded
- Win7/2008 R2 Release Candidate Ships!
- Windows 7
- Windows 7 - more
- Windows 7 Load-fests
- Windows 7 Usability
- Windows Azure Architecture Guidance
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
- Windows Identity Foundation RC ships!
- Windows Server 2008 dcpromo UI
- Windows Time Service Blog.
- With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy...
- With apologies to Toby Ziegler.
- Witness my self-restraint…
- Wow does Amazon.de ship fast.
- X Men Origins: Wolverine
- Yo, Windows Server 2008 R2:
- You (still) like me, you (still) really really like me!
- You know it's going to be a bad day...
- iTunes marketing genius
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