Recent enhancements to JRButils for AD

New programs

• Adsetowner - an AD version of setowner for setting ownership of files and directories in an entire directory structure, or in the home directories of one or more users.
• Adjrbpass - an AD verison of jrbpass which is a GUI program for changing passwords. It supports changing AD, NT domain and local workstation passwords plus NetWare passwords if the NetWare client is installed and a connection exists to a NetWare server.
• Adhome - an AD version of home2 which maps the current drive or a designated drive to the path in a user's homeDirectory attribute.
• Addelhome - Deletes the contents of the home directory, and optionally the home directory itself, for one or more users.

• Added a new logging option ‘char’ to /e and /l in all programs. This writes the output to the file in ‘char’ rather than ‘oem’ format, allowing extended chars to be displayed correctly in notepad.
• Fixed an issue in various programs supporting Windows drives, where they could incorrectly report a path including a drive letter was invalid. The problem arose because some versions of Windows are less flexible as to the format of the path accepted by the Windows function being used for path validation.
• Modified to use a command line prompt, rather than a dialogBox, when a username and password are required for authentication to a server.
• Fixed an issue in all programs which can process all members of a group, where on W2003 servers, the program could hang when a member in a child domain was found. The problem arose due to (a) an issue in the method used to retrieve the members under W2003 (supposedly more efficient than the older method used under W2000), and (b) my code not allowing for the error returned by (a). All programs now use just the older W2000 method which does not appear to have any issues with members in child domains.
• Increased the maximum path length used in many programs from 254 to 1024 to allow for the fact that files with names longer than 254 characters can be created, although the non-unicode APIs do not support such long paths. This change prevents the programs from producing application errors on such long paths.
• Fixed an issue in adwhodidit, adextcheck and adchrcheck (which have dual Windows and NetWare functionality) where they reported an error if the NetWare client was present, but there was no connection to a NetWare server.

• Fixed an issue where it failed to display quotas when the path to the volume included a DFS link.
• Fixed an issue where it failed to work if drive letters beyond E: were used for local drives.
• Fixed an issue where it failed to display quotas when the target path included a drive letter which was not mapped to the volume root.
• Fixed an issue where an application error could result when reporting that quotas were not enabled on the drive pointed to by the path in the homeDirectory attribute.

• Fixed an issue where it was failing to correctly determine when an account was expired.

• Fixed an issue where it could display the distinguished name in addition to the requested attribute when using /q.
• Updated to correctly display the contents of the userParameters attribute. This holds terminal services settings, but the structure is undocumented, and the values must be retrieved via the Terminal Services programming interface.
• Modified to not print headings and total for object classes for which there are no objects when using /o=*.
• Improved the display of, or updated to display the following attributes:

  lockoutDuration
  attributes using the DNWithBinary syntax e.g. wellKnownObjects
  attributes using the DNWithString syntax

• Added pseudo-attributes for user objects. These are derived values (e.g. account locked), bit values from userAccountControl (e.g. account disabled), domain wide values (e.g. minimum password length), or terminal services values read from the userParameters attribute:

  accountDisabled
  accountExpired
  accountLocked
  homedirRequired
  lockoutDuration
  lockoutThreshold
  lockoutWindow
  passwordChangeNextLogon
  passwordComplexityRequired
  passwordExpired
  passwordExpires
  passwordHistoryLength
  passwordMaximumAge
  passwordMinimumAge
  passwordMinimumLength
  passwordNeverExpires
  passwordRequired
  passwordReverseEncryption
  passwordUniqueRequired
  tsAllowLogon
  tsBrokenConnectionAction
  tsConnectClientDrivesAtLogon
  tsConnectClientPrintersAtLogon
  tsDefaultToMainPrinter
  tsEnableRemoteControl
  tsHomeDirectory
  tsHomeDrive
  tsInitialProgram
  tsMaxConnectionTime
  tsMaxDisconnectionTime
  tsMaxIdleTime
  tsProfilePath
  tsReconnectionAction
  tsWorkDirectory
  

• Added the ability via /a to process a file containing both groups and object names, one pair per line. /a may also be used to indicate the character separating the two entities.

• Added the ability via /a to process a file containing both groups and object names, one pair per line. /a may also be used to indicate the character separating the two entities.

• Fixed an issue where it failed to set volume quotas when the path to the volume included a DFS link.
• Fixed an issue where it failed to set volume quotas if drive letters beyond E: were used for local drives.
• Updated to support setting the terminal services parameters stored in the userParameters attribute. New fields which can be set are:

  tsAllowLogon
  tsBrokenConnectionAction
  tsConnectClientDrivesAtLogon
  tsConnectClientPrintersAtLogon
  tsDefaultToMainPrinter
  tsEnableRemoteControl
  tsHomeDirectory
  tsHomeDrive
  tsInitialProgram
  tsMaxConnectionTime
  tsMaxDisconnectionTime
  tsMaxIdleTime
  tsProfilePath
  tsReconnectionAction
  tsWorkDirectory
  

• Added control statements “Copy from path” and “Copy To path” to allow files and/or directories to be copied into the home directory or to a subdirectory of the home directory.

• Added /b to set the ownership of the home directory contents when the home directory already exists.

• Fixed an issue where it failed to set quotas when the path to the volume included a DFS link.
• Fixed an issue where it failed to work if drive letters beyond E: were used for local drives.
• Fixed an issue where it failed to set quotas when the target path included a drive letter which was not mapped to the volume root.

• Fixed an issue where using an input file was not working.

• Fixed an issue where values were set incorrectly when using /n and multiple values were each enclosed in double quotes e.g. “Value1”; “Value2” ; “Value3”. Adsetval worked correctly when no quotes were used, or the entire string was enclosed in quotes.
• Modified to allow /d to be used with /n so that existing values can be removed before adding multiple new values.
• Updated to support setting the terminal services parameters stored in the userParameters attribute. The pseudo-attribute names which can be used for this are the same as those listed for adimport.

• Added /g to modify the behaviour of /i and /z, allowing those options to be used to include or exclude users from the results based on their group memberships.

• Added /$ to force a path to be treated as a directory.
• Fixed an issue where it would not run on workstations running Windows NT and earlier due to the use of the Win32 GetLongPathName function which is supported only under Windows 2000 and later.
• Added the ability to use [None] as a value for the owner field to identify files and directories for which this field has no value.

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