Active Directory Documentation Team : Active Directory Domain Services

New Djoin.exe utility in Windows Server 2008 R2

Justin [MSFT] — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:00 GMT

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)

"Account Ops-FC" access control entry (ACE)

gabag — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:53:00 GMT

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

gabag — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:45:00 GMT

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)

TechMentor Conference Orlando 2009 (June 22-26)

Kurt Hudson — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:21:00 GMT

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)

Producing a list of multivalued linked attributes

Kurt Hudson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:53:00 GMT

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)