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13 October 2008
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...
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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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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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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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Attachment(s):ADMT Mixed Env Matrix.mht
29 February 2008
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...
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20 November 2007
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...
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16 November 2007
Certifiable
For Customer Services and Support division employees at Microsoft it’s inevitable that, if you talk directly to customers at all, you will be asked whether you are certified. I’ve even heard our customers ask development folks (aka programmers) that question Read More...
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