Earlier this year I set about simplifying the user account creation process for the company I work for. Previously when someone joined the company the user account creation was a manual process. Some of the tasks we manually undertook were: Create the account and Exchange mailbox; Set relevant attributes (Job Title, Office Address etc); Enable […]

Having decommissioned a few legacy AD DS domains over the last year or so we’ve had a few references in TFS to missing accounts. When attempting to delete the workspace you get the following error: TF50605: There was an error looking up the SID for OLD-DOMAIN\CCNETNIGHTLYBUILD. In order to delete the workspace, we need to […]

Having recently deployed a handful of Ubuntu Linux systems for proxies and other roles I wanted to join them to Active Directory for Single Signon. Nobody wants to remember lots of different passwords, lets face it. I came across a product called Likewise, the free open-source version is available in the standard Ubuntu repositories. Here’s […]