25 August 2008
DNS Scavenging and AD
Recently I wrote a post about how, in an uncommon scenario, Active Directory integrated DNS could lose an entry regarding a domain controller in a global SRV record. Here’s another aspect of AD integrated DNS which you can run into, particularly if you Read More...
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08 August 2008
A Complicated Scenario Regarding DNS and the DC Locator SRVs
When we do initial interviewing of a candidate for a job here in the CSS Directory Services team a question we’ll often start with is “how important is DNS to Active Directory?”. The person’s answer-if the correct answer of very important is given- is Read More...
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25 July 2008
Monitor AD Replication Much?
I want to point out an excellent resource for an administrator out there who is responsible for Active Directory replication in their environment. The resource is a comprehensive and detailed article solely on using Repadmin.exe. The article goes over Read More...
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11 July 2008
Loading the Active Directory Database Into RAM
Here’s another question we get asked occasionally: is there a way to load the entire Active Directory database into RAM? The idea behind this question is that having the sought after data in physical RAM would prevent the delays of seek time and paging Read More...
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10 July 2008
ADMT 3.1 Is Now Available for Download!
There’s been a lot of interest in the next version of our free migration tool and guide. Well, it’s now available. The link below can get you to the new Migration Guide, ADMT itself, and a link to the Password Export Server (PES) 3.1 in both x86 and x64 Read More...
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30 June 2008
2008 Web Enrollment and Version 3 Templates
Certificate Services in Server 2008 has had a lot of changes and enhancements. Some are obvious and documented well, and others are not obvious and not so well documented. Case in point is an additional aspect of Server 2008 certificate web enrollment. Read More...
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06 June 2008
Conflict Resolution, Lingering Objects, Printers
I was recently asked to help out on an issue with a similar theme to other cases we have seen over the years. The topic has never been one that has generated a high number of calls to us but the calls we have received are not easy ones to get an initial Read More...
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09 May 2008
Trusted For Delegation in Services for User (S4U)
A while back I did a blog post regarding the user interface and settings for configuring a service account correctly to allow the more complex Kerberos delegation scenarios to take place. I recently had a customer issue I helped with that gave a good Read More...
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08 May 2008
Just Another Odd Error
We get a lot of “huh?” type questions…things that seem so obvious and straightforward that the instant instinctive thought is “well, yeah, of course that won’t work…” Case in point. One of my colleagues received a call where a customer was wanting to Read More...
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22 April 2008
ADMT 3.1 Beta!
For folks who have been interested helping test Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1 your day has come! The ADMT 3.1 Beta is here! This is a beta , not the finished product, so please test it out in your non-production environment and file bugs Read More...
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11 April 2008
Group Policy Best Practice Analyzer
Ever heard of a Best Practice Analyzer , otherwise known as a ‘BPA’? It’s a type of tool that many of our product or support teams have been creating the last few years which can be used to gauge the general health of a component before things go catastrophically Read More...
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01 April 2008
Indexing in Active Directory
We end up taking indexing for granted most of the time until and unless we encounter a problem. Why don’t we start off with the question of “what is indexing?”. So an index is essentially a way of organizing data for fast retrieval or at least retrieving Read More...
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11 March 2008
2008 Certificate Web Enrollment Pages - Available!!
I am very happy to announce that the Certificate Web Enrollment pages from Server 2008 are available as a free download at last. Just click on the links below to get the pages, then follow the steps in the KB article to install them on your Server 2003 Read More...
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10 March 2008
ADMT and Server 2008
Whenever we release a new product or suite of products we at Microsoft want to ease the adoption of it. For that reason we’ve released tools and scripts over the years to help our customers out. We’ve typically given these as free downloads from the internet, Read More...
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07 March 2008
Question about AD authentication, Put In Context
Occasionally I am contacted with specific questions or topics people would like to hear more about. This post is a reply to one of those. Here’s the question: My question is what are the impact when I change the logon workstation property of a user account Read More...
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