Brian Puhl's Weblog

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Starting Over...

It's time to start over with this whole blogging thing. But it was important (to me at least) to...

Date: 12/14/2007

Identity and Access Webcast Series

Here's some info on some upcoming webcasts... This first series is for the "Technical Decision...

Date: 10/31/2006

ADFS Documentation

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a blog where someone was posting documentation about ADFS? Well...

Date: 10/20/2006

Who's on... huh?

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have...

Date: 10/15/2006

First Post with Live Writer

Don't expect a whole lot here - I just installed Live Writer and wanted to see what it was going to...

Date: 10/09/2006

ADFS and Liability Continued...

hmm...let's see...I wrote a blog, Pam left a comment, I replied to her comment with another blog,...

Date: 10/03/2006

Comment on ADFS Liability

My favorite Calgary-ian Pam left the following comment on my last blog post: Hm. In a perfect world,...

Date: 09/21/2006

ADFS and Domain Admins (or anyone else for that matter)

I spend a lot of time answering questions or making comments in e-mails that would make good blog...

Date: 09/18/2006

x64 Domain Controllers

Had an e-mail thread with Joe recently, which also resulted in this blog entry. He's a consultant...

Date: 09/13/2006

Useful repadmin switch

Repadmin is the "swiss army knife" of AD tools - But the following can be one of those "big red...

Date: 07/22/2006

AD Training

hmmm....ok, so here's an interesting problem: I'm a Microsoft employee. My blog is hosted on...

Date: 07/22/2006

AD and DC Builds, tweaks, configurations... The Registry

The first installment, what our hardware looks like, may have been useful...but I know that's not...

Date: 07/06/2006

AD and DC Builds, tweaks, configurations... (1)

I received a mail from a blog reader (Jim) who asked: "Can you provide any insight regarding and...

Date: 07/06/2006

Interesting SSID and Reusing Attributes

I bought a new truck a few months ago, and right on schedule (as the salesman promised), as I was...

Date: 06/03/2006

ADFS Certificate Maintenance - v1

Over the past several weeks, we've celebrated the 1 year anniversary of our ADFS deployment. I say...

Date: 05/24/2006

Orgs...and Re-Orgs...

(Especially) If you work in a large company, then organization changes aren't really anything new....

Date: 05/24/2006

Been a while...

So it turns out, that this blogging stuff is harder than it looks. Not only do you have to have...

Date: 05/06/2006

ADFS & DFSR Webcast

Did the webcast on ADFS and DFSR yesterday morning with Dustin Fraser, another one of the Systems...

Date: 12/14/2005

How MS IT Does ADFS Value Card now available...

For the past year or so I've been working with the ADFS team to deploy 2 instances in our internal...

Date: 12/12/2005

Time, time, everyone wants time...

In a previous post about managing FSMO roles, I asked a question about who remembers to configure...

Date: 12/08/2005

What to do with FSMO roles...

We recently hired a new engineer to a team which manages some of the internal MS environments... We...

Date: 12/07/2005

Gil Kirkpatrick is now blogging...

Got mail from Gil Kirkpatrick that he's started blogging at https://www.gilsblog.com recently which...

Date: 12/07/2005

Too high tech, have to go re-learn...

I was in Office Depot a few weeks ago, and saw that they had fountain pens on display, so I picked...

Date: 11/03/2005

Bulk Password Resets

When a user resets their password, what happens? What about if ALL your users reset their password?...

Date: 11/02/2005

How Does MSIT Do...DC Placement?

In the past couple of months, I've been asked at least 3 or 4 times how MS IT determines where on...

Date: 11/02/2005

How Does Microsoft IT Do...

Engineers in Microsoft IT spend an unusually large amount of time talking to customers answering...

Date: 11/02/2005

When your data is dirty, just start over...

I was in a meeting this afternoon, where someone proposed a security solution which could basically...

Date: 10/21/2005

First blog...

First post, so here's a brief intro. My name is Brian Puhl, and I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer in...

Date: 10/09/2005