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Testing a Credential Provider

Weeks ago I blogged about how single sign on and credential providers work and a scenario you can run into with them. One reader faced a slightly different scenario but was able to apply that topic toward getting his issue resolved. He had installed a Read More...

Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 4:43 PM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory General, Security, Vista, Server 2008, User Logon, General Directory Services Troubleshooting

Taking Out The Trash

There will be times when you have to make big changes in your Active Directory. Sometimes those big changes mean deleting a lot of objects. I’ve personally needed to match customer environments by creating tens of thousands of AD objects just to have Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:38 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory General, Server 2008, General Directory Services Troubleshooting

VSS Snapshots and You

I find myself doing blog posts on things that are not frequent enough for most experienced admins to be aware of since it wouldn’t come across their desk often. The reason for that is that in my role I receive the least common unresolved issues Read More...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 8:01 AM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory General, Server 2008, General Directory Services Troubleshooting

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

Filed under: Active Directory General, AD Replication, Security, Network, Server 2008, Kerberos, General Directory Services Troubleshooting, Non-technical? You be the judge.

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

Filed under: Active Directory General, Security, Vista, Server 2008, General Directory Services Troubleshooting, Non-technical? You be the judge., Migration

Attachment(s): ADMT Mixed Env Matrix.mht

Dude, where's my PAC?

Something that is becoming more prevalent over the past few years has been great investments into our security technologies for application oriented reasons. Impersonation, people, that’s what I’m talking about. If anyone ever asks you what the big deal Read More...

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 8:20 AM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments

Filed under: Active Directory General, Security, Server 2008, Kerberos, User Logon, General Directory Services Troubleshooting