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Ned here. For all of our bilingual German readers, I wanted to point out that the Microsoft Germany DS support folks also have their own excellent blog: Aktives Verzeichnis - http://blogs.technet.com/deds/ Be sure to add them to your feed reader of choice.
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Ned here again. A few months ago Mark Aggar, Pat Stemen, and Michael Walsh wrote an excellent TechNet Magazine article on using group policy to save power. This article gives specific examples as well as fully documents all 35 power management settings
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“I don’t want my users copying data to removable drives. How can I prevent this?” It’s a common question asked to our team. Removable drives are widespread. Current mobile devices can now store up to 8 GB of data on a micro-SD card, which is no bigger
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Craig here again. Let’s take a look at a specific flavor of 1085 event, and its equivalent on Vista/2008, event 7016. The 1085 would show up in the Application log on XP/2003. The 7016 would show up in the Group Policy operational log on Vista/2008
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Hi, Ned again – and surprisingly, talking about DFSR! From time to time a customer will ask us about the Deleted folder in a Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) content set. It never seems to have anything in it. Not to mention we have a
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Hi. Jim from DS here again to show you how to quickly access the properties of your network interface cards via a custom desktop shortcut. In my previous blog post I put together a lovely “at a glance” reference to launching administrative and system
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Mike here again. Today I’m focusing on policy settings for the Event Logging Service. For clarity, these settings control the Event Logging service; the service responsible for capturing and writing events throughout Windows. These policy settings do
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Ned here again. Adam Shepherd (one of our esteemed UK MS Consulting colleagues) wanted us to let everyone know that there is a new Directory Services Core Infrastructure presentation coming soon. You will need to register for this and it will be delivered
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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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