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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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What Do You Know About Directory Services and Exchange?

A former Microsoft employee has a horror story to tell about the company's directory services. He was told he could clone an active directory, rename it and then re-use it on another site. But when he went to do this in his early 20s there were no instructions for him at all. So he wrote a script that renamed one of the cloned exchange server machines. It worked - but who knows if anyone else will be able to use it?

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