July 2008 - Posts
Hi this is Rob again. We had a couple cases recently where PolicyMaker settings were not applying to computer and users after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3. We found that PolicyMaker client-side extensions (CSE) are not registered after installing
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Ned here. I wanted to make sure all of our loyal readers know about an important post at our sister site Enterprise Networking: NetBIOS browsing across subnets may fail after upgrading to Windows Server 2008 While not a pure DS issue, it could definitely
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Sometimes you need to enable additional logging when you are troubleshooting a particular component in Windows. Group Policy Preferences includes the ability to create verbose debug logging for each included client-side extensions. You activate Preference
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Ned here again. When setting up Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008, it’s fairly common to hear the following from a customer: “I setup DFSR a few hours ago, but it does not seem to be configured
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Hi everyone, David here. I just wanted to spread the word that ADMT 3.1 is now available for download . Like all previous versions of ADMT, it’s free to install and use. The big change in this version of the Active Directory Migration Tool is support
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Mike here again. For some time now, we’ve had inquiries about where the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is located in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1. It’s well documented that Server 2008 includes GPMC but, it does not appear in the administrative
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Ned here again. With the release of Windows Server 2008, a number of customers have asked us whether or not they need to extend the Active Directory schema in order to use the new version of Distributed File System Replication (DFSR). The answer is, of
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