April 2008 - Posts

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...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:04 PM by Tim Springston | 4 Comments

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...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:39 PM by Tim Springston | 2 Comments

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...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:13 PM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments
 
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