u/tar-xz

I was looking a bit more into the new-ish 32k page size in the AD database and what it means in practise. My take that I came up is: If you don't have an urgent need or aren't doing a new Install, the actual advantage in practise isn't that big unless you have a very large directory. The risks are actual if you haven't checked a couple of things.

It's mostly about records that have a huge amount of multi-valued attributes but I don't see that in the directories I currently have access to. It's likely to happen in very huge directories with deep nested groups etc.

Would you agree with me or am I ignoring something obvious?

There are a couple of things you should check before even considerung the upgrade:

• No inplace upgraded Domain Controllers are OK
• Your AD Backup should support it (i.e. Veeam seems to require specific versions)
• You need to have backups since it's a one-way street, once the DB is converted to 32k page size it's not reversible.

And so far it also seems like this is the only new optional feature in Active Directory that actually requires a Domain and Forest Functional Level of 2025 - right?

I've found the following discussion here, where u/KeeperCraig mentions that the JSON export contains Passkeys stored inside Keeper, however the current format is proprietary to Keeper (and likely predates standardization).

Then I learned about the FIDO alliance members working on Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP and Credential Exchange Format (CXF) which I have reached proposed standard in spring 2026.

Is this what KeeperCraig meant? If so it would be interesting to hear if Keeper is working on CXP/CXF implementation.

Hi

I just got a message from Postfinance that they are ending cashback on their credit cards (not debit cards) in june this year and replacing it by a new "SmartPoints" cashback program: https://www.postfinance.ch/en/private/paying-saving/smartpoints.html

With Smartpoints you opt in and for what I understood on the positive side it's applying Smartpoints that you can turn into cashback for other payments, be it using their debit card, Twint or as before, their credit cards + other Postfinance services. - Sounds good?

After skimming initially over the offer I have at least 2 things that make hesitating (and I try not to be to sarcastic):

- It's "all or nothing", meaning that you have to (seemingly?) opt in completely, which means that you agree to all things being tracked by SmartPoints or none. With cashback on the credit card it was never much cashback, but I could by using either the Debit or Credit card.
- Payout of points has to be done manually by you, they expire after 24 months after being earned. If you forget them, they'll expire. With the previous cashback it was automatically transferred to your primary account I think twice a year. (See: "How long are my SmartPoints valid for?")

Is it just me, or is it another move by PF to (slightly, but not to much) enshitify their service and get more data from us by offering some earnings that we can turn into money?