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How to Query Active Directory Using Enterprise Manager

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Step 1
Open Security and find Linked Servers (Figure 1). This is where your linked server will show up after you add it.
Open Tools -> SQL Query Analyzer and paste in the following code:
exec sp_addlinkedserver ‘ADSI’, ‘Active Directory Services 2.5′, ‘ADsDSOObject’, ‘adsdatasource’
You should now be able to expand Linked Servers and see a server called [...]

Python meets .NET

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Article: A First Look at IronPython: Where Python meets .NET
Download: IronPython 1.0 Beta 8
I’m don’t know Python. However, the more I hear I about it, the more I think I may need to look into it. Python developers seem to be very passionate their chosen language. I mean, I like php…and [...]

Visual Studio 2005 - Apple iMac Continued

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Recently I wrote about installing Visual Studio on my Apple G5 iMac. I reported successful functionality, but less than successful performance. As promised, here is the *quote* solution *unquote* to my Apple/Visual Studio pipe dream.
The Solution
I found a handly little freeware app called Synergy. Synergy allows you to share one mouse and [...]

Visual Studio 2005 on my Apple G5 iMac

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I love building applications with the .NET Framework, especially since the release of .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I also love Apple computers and OS 10.4 “Tiger”. I want these great technologies to all work together! Unfortunately the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Microsoft proprietary technologies and only run on [...]

Sneak Preview of Windows Vista

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce hosted a presentation by Microsoft Technical Specialist Craig Robicheaux this afternoon. Mr. Robicheax’s presentation, “Sneak Preview of Windows Vista”, began with a lot of apologies about being long-winded, time delays on product release, and a reminder that if it crashed during the presentation it was still Beta 1. [...]

ASP.NET DataGrid Caption Element

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

ASP.NET 1.1 can generate accessible tables through DataGrid server control. This is not breaking news, but I want to put this out there because I had so much difficulty finding it. MS released a hotfix which made it possible to comply with Section 508. The new DataGrid properties are UseAccessibleHeader, Caption, and [...]

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