[geeks] Nerdy scripting help...

[Andrew Jones]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:30:20AM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I realize you may already have a suitable answer, but i just wanted to throw
> out Microsoft's Unix Services for Windows - it's a feature on Windows Server
> 2008 (was a for fee product, then a free product, now it is part of the
> OS)...
> 
> 
> Just an arrow you might want in your quiver.
> 

You're thinking of the "Subsystem for UNIX Applications," which is the
new name for the old "Services For UNIX."  This product has had too many names:

NT4  => Interix
2003 => SFU
2008 => SUA

In any case, it has been free for many years now.  The change in 2008 is that
it is bundled on the install media, instead of a separate download. 

The only thing most people ever use it for is to get the snapin to edit
UNIX attributes in active directory.  *All* AD instances that contain a single
Windows 2008 DC have the schema updates to support RFC2307 attributes, but
the attribs are all marked read-only until at least one server has SUA 
installed.  It doesn't have to be configured, just installed.