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April 2009 - Posts

"Account Ops-FC" access control entry (ACE)
Account Operators is a default groups located in the Builtin container. Members of this group can create, modify, and delete accounts for users, groups, and computers located in the Users or Computers containers and organizational units in the domain, Read More...
When using Active Directory Recycle Bin to recover objects with a large number of link-valued attributes
When you delete or recover an Active Directory object with link-valued attributes, AD DS must process the object’s link value table to maintain referential integrity on the linked attribute’s values. Because deleting or recovering an Active Directory Read More...
Active Directory Domain Services Database Mounting Tool (Snapshot Viewer or Snapshot Browser)
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. In Windows Server 2008, there are new tools you can use to create a snapshot of your Active Directory database at a point in time, ntdsutil snapshot , and then you can view the Read More...
Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC)
UPDATE: A faster way to open the UAC settings in Windows 7 was just brought to my attention by Dean Wells. Click Start , type UAC and press ENTER. Thanks, Dean! If that doesn’t work for some reason, you can do the following: Run wscui.cpl from the Start Read More...
RSAT for Windows 7 downloads are available
While this has been true for a while, I figured that it is worth mentioning that if you are running Windows 7, you can download the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 . If you’ve used the Administration Tools for Windows XP (Adminpak.msi), Read More...
How many RIDs are left in your domain?
Are you in danger of running out of relative identifiers (RIDs) in your domain? If you haven’t heard of this before, you should see Active Directory Maximum Limits - Scalability and read the section Maximum Number of Security Identifiers. Then, come back Read More...
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