Active Directory Documentation Team

Active Directory Port Requirements

A few days ago we posted a document to TechNet that outlines some of the various port requirements for Active Directory. We gathered the port information from various KB articles and consolidated them into one document. I think it should serve as a great Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:51 AM by Davanand Bahall - MSFT | 1 Comments

Filed under: "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services"

New Djoin.exe utility in Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers include a new feature named Offline Domain Join. A new utility named Djoin.exe lets you join a computer to a domain, without contacting a domain controller while completing the domain join operation, by obtaining Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:35 PM by Justin [MSFT] | 3 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Active Directory Domain Services, "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services", computer accounts, Djoin.exe Provisioning "Domain Join" "Active Directory"

Active Directory Quotas

You can use Active Directory and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to implement limitations on the number of objects that a security principal (a user, computer, and group) can create in a directory node. You can define these limitations through Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:39 PM by Davanand Bahall - MSFT | 0 Comments

Filed under: "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services", quotas

TechMentor Conference Orlando 2009 (June 22-26)

Kurt Hudson from the Active Directory documentation team will be presenting the session Best Practices for Virtual Domain Controllers at TechMentor in Orlando . See the conference ad video . LiveJournal Tags: conference , Active Directory Domain Services Read More...

Posted: Monday, March 16, 2009 3:21 PM by Kurt Hudson | 0 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory, "Active Directory", Active Directory Domain Services, "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services", virtual domain controllers, Hyper-V

Producing a list of multivalued linked attributes

Active Directory objects can have several different types of attributes. The two basic types are single valued and multivalued. The most frequently asked question regarding attributes that I have seen is that regarding the member attribute because it Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:53 AM by Kurt Hudson | 0 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory Maximums, Limitations, limits of Active Directory, Active Directory Maximum Limits, Active Directory, "Active Directory", Active Directory Domain Services, "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services", AD scale, Active Directory scale, AD DS scalability

Alternate Credentials

Launching Tools Using Alternate Credentials from a Command Prompt Window One of the easiest ways to launch tools using alternate credentials is to first launch a Command Prompt with the credentials you want to use. Once the Command Prompt is launched Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:09 AM by Kurt Hudson | 0 Comments

Filed under: "Active Directory", "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services", snap-ins, Alternate credentials, MMC

Introducing Active Directory Administrative Center

Active Directory Administrative Center provides network administrators with an enhanced Active Directory data management experience and a rich graphical user interface (GUI). Administrators can use Active Directory Administrative Center to perform common Read More...

Posted: Friday, January 30, 2009 5:46 PM by gabag | 1 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory User Assistance, Active Directory, PowerShell, "Active Directory" PowerShell, "Active Directory", PowerShell Scripting, Active Directory PowerShell, "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services"

Introducing AD DS Best Practices Analyzer

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool that can help you implement best practices in the configuration of your Active Directory environment. AD DS BPA scans the AD DS server role as it is installed Read More...

Posted: Friday, January 30, 2009 5:44 PM by gabag | 0 Comments

Filed under: "Active Directory" "Read-only domain controller" RODC "Branch Office", Active Directory, PowerShell, "Active Directory", PowerShell Scripting, Active Directory PowerShell, "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services"

Introducing Active Directory Recycle Bin

Accidental deletion of Active Directory objects is a common occurrence for users of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS). In Windows Server 2008 Active Directory domains, you could recover Read More...

Posted: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:22 AM by gabag | 3 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory User Assistance, "Active Directory" PowerShell, "Active Directory", Active Directory PowerShell, "Active Directory" "Active Directory Domain Services"

This condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem (FWLINK 5171)

I was reminded of the infamous forward link 5171 today. We had quite a time figuring out all the circumstances in which people were getting this message with the following words "This condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem" and then displayed Read More...

Posted: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:24 PM by Kurt Hudson | 0 Comments