I thought it might be touchy and didn't even expect a response from you on
this one Guido because I figured it might be pretty warm... :op
I do thank you for the response and clarification... I guess I am stuck with
my version V.67 copy of AOD...
joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO
(HP-Germany,ex1)
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 2:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Where in the world is Micky Balladelli?
this is a touchy topic, but I'll try to clarify anyways: Micky wrote AOD as
an employee of Compaq - as such the IP (Intellectual Property) of this code
belonged to Compaq and now HP. When Micky left Compaq at the time of the
merger, the code stayed with the company.
As there was definitely a lot of added value for AD management through AOD,
HP re-wrote the whole code to make it stable and scalable for the enterprise
=> it is now part of the HP OpenView for Windows product (part of the AD
Smart Plug In) - the interface is virtually the same and it is now called
ADTV (AD Topology Viewer). Customers that use OVOW and the AD SPI really
love this interface due to it's 3-D look and clean interface.
Quest's tool is a separate Tool which has nothing to do with HP's AOD or
ADTV. Both have their specific values and benfits and if you really want to
know what your AD looks like, you should investigate both tools.
/Guido
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sonntag, 4. Januar 2004 19:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Where in the world is Micky Balladelli?
I am not sure about that... I have played with some of the Quest stuff and I
haven't seen anything that looked like AOD... I would have recognized it
immediately. The topology generator in Spotlight I saw from Quest was 2-D
though I admit to only running as a non-admin to see what it would do -
possibly it goes into AOD mode if you run as an admin? Been a while but I
think AOD ran completely as a non-admin.
My "Gold" test for any product is to run it as a non-admin and the only
things that shouldn't work are things that I *KNOW* require admin access
rights. I actually have a perl script that does replication checking that
runs as a normal userid and have been told multiple times that is
impossible...
joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd
(NIH/CIT)
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Where in the world is Micky Balladelli?
I believe Quest picked up the ball and ran with it regarding Age of
Directories. The site topology tool is part of their spotlight on AD
product now.
Todd
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 3:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Where in the world is Micky Balladelli?
Hey there used to be a guy named Micki Balladelli that worked for COMPAQ; I
believe he was based out of Southern France or something like that. He was
involved in a lot of the earlier scaling testing and he had this cool little
tool he was working on called Age of Directories. I went to contact him to
see if he is still working with that tool and enhancing it but it appears
his COMPAQ email address is dead and so I tried a like-minded HP address and
that didn't work either.
Does anyone know positively if he left COMPAQ/HP?
Does anyone have a newer email address on him?
Barring all of that does anyone know what happened to Age of Directories?
If you know of his whereabouts but don't want to give me the info, please
forward him my email address and my request if possible.
Thanks, joe
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