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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 10/31/2006
ADFS Documentation
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a blog where someone was posting documentation about ADFS? Well...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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,...
Author: bpuhl 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,...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 07/22/2006
AD Training
hmmm....ok, so here's an interesting problem: I'm a Microsoft employee. My blog is hosted on...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 05/24/2006
Orgs...and Re-Orgs...
(Especially) If you work in a large company, then organization changes aren't really anything new....
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 05/06/2006
ADFS & DFSR Webcast
Did the webcast on ADFS and DFSR yesterday morning with Dustin Fraser, another one of the Systems...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 11/03/2005
Bulk Password Resets
When a user resets their password, what happens? What about if ALL your users reset their password?...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 11/02/2005
How Does Microsoft IT Do...
Engineers in Microsoft IT spend an unusually large amount of time talking to customers answering...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl 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...
Author: bpuhl Date: 10/09/2005