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Thomas Eck

Thomas Eck manages a production tools development team within the Perot Systems Financial Services Industry Group. He is an MCSE+Internet, an MCSD, an MCDBA, an ASE, and the author of Windows NT/2000: ADSI Scripting for System Administration (Macmillan Technical Publishing).

Email: teck@windowsitpro.com

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Sample Self-Service Account-Administration Application

By Thomas Eck, 10/24/2002

Download and adapt this sample solution to increase efficiency and security in your enterprise.

Self-Service Account Administration

By Thomas Eck, 10/21/2002

Use ADO, ADSI, and ASP to create a self-service application that can free up your IT staff members' time or increase Help desk security.

High-Security IIS Deployment

By Thomas Eck, 09/05/2002

These free Microsoft tools can help you lockdown your IIS server.

Downloading the CAB File Through a Proxy Server

By Thomas Eck, 03/29/2002

Hive_svc is a Visual Basic (VB) service that leverages the Microsoft Internet Transfer Control (ITC) to download the Microsoft compressed cabinet format (CAB) file automatically ...

Automating Hotfixes

By Thomas Eck, 03/05/2002

The Hotfix Identification and Verification Engine (HIVE) is a WSH application that lets you leverage Microsoft’s Hfnetchk command-line tool to not only identify vulnerable servers ...

Practical Usage of ADSI: Using IADsTools’ General Functions

By Thomas Eck, 01/09/2002

The IADsTools.dll object in the Win2K Support Tools provides useful functions for working with ADSI, AD, and native LDAP namespaces.

Code Use with Objects Outside AD

By Thomas Eck, 11/19/2001

Here’s some important information about the listings in “Practical Usage of ADSI: Advanced Techniques for Querying AD.”

Practical Usage of ADSI: Advanced Techniques for Querying AD

By Thomas Eck, 11/19/2001

Learn how to use the IADs interface’s Schema property and the IADsPropertyList interface to display an object’s properties.

The Core of ADSI's Efficiency: The Property Cache

By Thomas Eck, 11/16/2001

Find out why ADSI initially writes changes to the property cache rather than the underlying directory.

Practical Usage of ADSI: Server Consolidation

By Thomas Eck, 09/24/2001

Migrating and consolidating data between servers can be a tedious and time-consuming task, especially in a large enterprise. Thomas Eck provides a scripted data-migration solution ...

Using XCOPY /O to Copy Data and ACLs

By Thomas Eck, 09/24/2001

Discover the perils and pitfalls of the XCOPY command with the /O switch.

Practical Usage of ADSI: Using COM Objects to Manage WTS Profile Paths, Part 2

By Thomas Eck, 04/23/2001

Although you can’t use Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) to programmatically manipulate profile paths for Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition (WTS), you can ...

Practical Usage of ADSI: Using COM Objects to Manage WTS Profile Paths, Part 1

By Thomas Eck, 03/26/2001

Although you can’t use Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) to programmatically manipulate profile paths for Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition (WTS), you can ...

Practical Usage of ADSI: Managing User Accounts in Win2K and NT

By Thomas Eck, 02/26/2001

Issuing new user accounts typically involves many steps. You can use Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) to create a solution that not only reduces the tedium of this ...

Practical Usage of ADSI: Managing Service Account Passwords

By Thomas Eck, 01/22/2001

If you don’t regularly change the passwords for privileged service accounts, you expose your firm to needless risk. By using the presented code, you can reduce this security risk ...

Practical Usage of ADSI: Password Management for Machine Accounts and Local Administrators

By Thomas Eck, 01/03/2001

This new column shows you how to use ADSI to solve problems that administrators face regularly. This month, learn how to use ADSI to tackle two tasks: finding and removing unused ...



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