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Ned here again. Let’s talk about auditing your domain for changes made to Password and Account Lockout policies. Frankly, it’s a real pain in the neck to figure out Password and Account Lockout auditing and there are legacy architectural decisions behind
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Hi all, Ned here again. Microsoft is still working on ADMT 3.2, which can be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 servers for migrations. There's no estimated date for this new tool yet. In the meantime, we have tested ADMT 3.1 and come up with supported
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Mike here again. Many Group Policy features rely on a well connected network for their success. However, not every connection is perfect or ideal; some connections are slow. The Group Policy infrastructure has always provided functionality to detect slow
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 reached general availability today. The line in our site’s company store was out the door, but we were able to snag some for this nice picture taken from a new Windows Mobile phone. Yeah, I went there too. Win7 and
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Greetings! This is Jonathan again. I was reviewing Chris’ excellent blog post series on designing and implementing a PKI when I realized that it would be helpful to better document the CAPolicy.inf file. The information in this post relies heavily on
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Ned here again. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 introduce a long sought feature known as NTLM blocking. This prevents NTLM from being used for authentication. IT works in both a send or receive mode, and allows you to create exceptions. There’s currently
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Hi, Ned here again. I’ve been assigned to the Platforms beta team here for the past year. One question I’ve gotten a zillion times is which versions of Windows Server 2003 can be upgraded to 2008 R2. Our documentation is rather confusing – working on
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Hello it’s LaNae again. Now that Windows 2008 R2 is available we get to use the coolness of PowerShell with AD LDS. When you install the AD LDS role on a Windows 2008 R2 server it will also install the AD PowerShell module. Unfortunately the documentation
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Ned here again. One of the more interesting new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is Managed Service Accounts. MSA’s allow you to create an account in Active Directory that is tied to a specific computer. That account has its own complex
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Ned here again. Starting in Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory now implements a true recycle bin. No longer will you need an authoritative restore to recover deleted users, groups, OU’s, or other objects. Instead, it is now possible to use PowerShell
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Hey all Rob here again. One feature that that is new with Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows 7 is the ability to configure your internal certification authority hierarchy in order to issue certificates that can show as Extended Validation certificates. So
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Ned here again. Now that the moratorium has ended, I can start talking about new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. To get things rolling today, I wanted to give you a very brief introduction to the AD Recycle Bin. It's brief because we
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Windows 7 client, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Standalone are RTM. Read more here on when you can get what, and other high-fiving amongst ourselves: Microsoft Press Pass When will you get Windows 7 RTM? Windows Server Division
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Hello All, There’s a known issue with installing Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.1 onto a Windows Server 2008 R2 computers that I want to bring to everyone’s attention. At this time it has been acknowledged that version 3.1 (which does require
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Ned here again. The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been released for Win7 RC. Grab them from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f6c62797-791c-48e3-b754-c7c0a09f32f3&displaylang=en Here are the installation requirements:
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