Justgeeking

I am currently working on a SharePoint 2007 deployment and ran into the following error during the 2nd step of the Configuration Wizard. When reviewing the event log I see the following error:
Failed to create the configuration database.
An exception of type System.Security.AccessControl.PrivilegeNotHeldException was thrown.  Additional exception information: The process does not possess the ‘SeSecurityPrivilege’ privilege [...]

One thing that I overlooked setting up a MOSS farm was the user filter for only active/enabled user accounts. Meaning…I was synchronizing all Active Directory profiles even those that where disabled. Microsoft has the following KB explaining how to do this.
User Filter: (&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)))
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827754

FireFox Windows/AD Authentication
I have been using a flavor of FireFox over the past few years and one of my few complaints was that FireFox would not automatically authenticate me when I am logged into a windows domain. Not that typing in my credentials is that big of a deal…but it is somewhat frustrating. So [...]