Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Story behind the blog

This blog reflects my personal experiences, thoughts, opinions and ideas about different kind of software that a system engineer have to deal in his daily job.There were 2 reasons which made me write my blog:
- the desire to help others that have the same problem;
- the desire to have a place accesible from every computer in the world where to find my information.

RSS feed crashed

Today i received a notification from feedburner team:


FeedBurner Collision Notification
Due some poor planning on Google's part since you created your new feed, http://feeds2.feedburner.com/masterplan, we have been forced to change its address to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/masterplan2.
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
We have worked hard to ensure that any feed that already exists on feeds.feedburner.com cannot be created in the new Google-hosted feeds environment, feeds2.feedburner.com. However, a few feeds, including your own, did end up with the same address on both sides. We've used an automatic conflict-resolution system to determine which feed's address to change, and the choice ended up being this feed.


In this way, the old address of my feed is not good anymore; now it shows a chinese website. I am very dissapointed about that because unfortunately this affects all my curent rss subscribers.
I changed now the rss feed link on my blog, allthough the address changed 1 week ago.
I apologise for the inconvienence and with this occasion i want to thank you to all my readers and subscribers.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

How to force users to logon on one domain controller

Hello,

The scenario is : one active directory site with two domain controllers.
Question: How to force users to logon only on one domain controller?
The answer to this question resides in the srv records priority. See here how to do it:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/ActiveDirectory/AQuickTiptodesignateadomaincontrollerforclientauthentications.html
You can verify the priorities by dns mmc console or by using nslookup like this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738991.aspx