Gee. Thanks, {{Active Directory}}. This is one of the more useless error messages you can get when trying to programmatically access AD. Feel free to Google (or DuckDuckGo, or Bing, or whomever) that error message. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Your eyes bleeding, and gray matter leaking from your ears yet? No? Then you obviously didn’t …
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sap bapis and hp oo
Couple quick notes: {{SAP}} is not designed for automated / programmatic access – their “{{BAPI}}”, or binary application programming interface, requires additional licensing beyond just the product to use I made the naive assumption that a “BAPI” was like a {{WSDL}} – and it is, but it’s proprietary, not open (and it’s binary, not plaintext {{XML}}) …
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thoughts on vilt
Over the years, I have taken (and given) a lot of training. I’ve had self-paced tutorials (printed and electronic), in-person lectures, hand-on labs, small groups, formal classes, one-on-one tutoring, and virtual instructor led training (VILT). I’ve seen two distinct types of VILT – good and bad. I have yet to see any “ok” training. It’s …
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certifications and dependencies
Last week I participated in a beta class for HP’s new Cloud Service Automation 3.0 product release (ok, so it’s a prerelease, and “product” is a strong term). 3.0 is a full rewrite from 2.x, so there is no upgrade path. Also, not everything that “appears” to be in place OOB is actually working – …
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