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Bulking Up an ADAM Test Instance

This week I’ve had the need to do some testing around ADAM (also known by it’s shiny new name of Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services or AD LDS).  The tests themselves are not directly relevant to this blog post, but in order for the tests Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 11:40 AM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

Downgrade "Attack"? A little more info

I decided that we needed some more detail and to give a walk through scenario on this downgrade attack deal I mentioned a while back in a blog post . As a recap, a customer called in after noticing the events below appearing intermittently but repeatedly-and Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 10:56 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

Gauging Size Differences in AD Databases

We occasionally receive support calls which revolve around the topics of “why is the Active Directory database on DC A different in size than that on DC B?”. It’s easy to dismiss the question out of hand but there are real life scenarios where this can Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 7:45 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

Tabula Rasa

I was well and truly stumped a few months ago. I joke that once a year I am flat out wrong, and rarely do I have nothing to say on a subject. The 'once a year I may be flat out wrong' statement may be true simply because after 15 years in the IT industry Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:15 AM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

Scary Sounding Errors

We have a temporary role in CSS where support folks will help out in supporting prerelease (also known as beta) software.   I’ve worked a couple of Windows betas, and it’s a great experience.   I mention this since I remember a few Read More...
Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 9:44 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

Troubleshooting a Memory Leak in Lsass.exe

Although we have a team of engineers who are dedicated to troubleshooting general server performance related problems Microsoft Directory Services specialists are expected to be the “go to” people for Active Directory and domain controller related performance Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 8:00 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

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...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 11:07 AM by Tim Springston | 5 Comments

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...
Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:36 PM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

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...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:00 AM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

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

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...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:00 AM by Tim Springston | 2 Comments

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...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 9:09 AM by Tim Springston | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): ADMT Mixed Env Matrix.mht

Reminder::Daylight Savings Time In the United States

In order to make sure everyone is prepared if they need to be I wanted to post a reminder about Daylight Saving Time (DST). DST in the United States will be March 9 th 2008 at 2:00 AM. Last year the United States Congress changed DST observance to the Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 7:00 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

2008 Certificate Web Enrollment Pages for Download

There’s be a lot of demand for the web enrollment pages from Server 2008. For those that have contacted me directly I apologize for the trouble I’ve had getting back to everyone on these. I also know that it some people expressed frustration over having Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:21 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments
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