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Hi. This is Jim from Directory Services. I spend a great deal of time working through remote Easy Assist / Live Meeting sessions, sometimes with client machines half way round the globe and the latency can be excruciating. In my experience I have found
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Craig here. In Directory Services we support a whole bunch of components which each have their own debug logging. A while back I pulled together all the information from various KB and TechNet articles and distilled it into a concise list of how logging
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The Microsoft Enterprise Network Team blog has posted information about a new update released for Windows Server 2003: New update available for Windows Server 2003 SP2 systems to disable Scalable Networking Pack features It is highly recommended that
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Here are the new Directory Services-related KB articles for the week. I came across something this week that reminded me of the improvements that were made to SMB signing in Vista/2008. The SMB protocol is used for network file transfer in Windows, and
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Now that Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 have released to manufacturing , you can expect to see quite a few KB articles coming out for those products. Before I list the ones relevant to Directory Services , here are a few general ones to be aware of
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Hi, Mike again. Every so often, I’ll talk with a customer wanting to deploy a legal notice to their workstations using Group Policy. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is actually a little tricky to make the legal notice work correctly. Here is a solution
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New Directory Services-related KB articles for the week. Enjoy! KB Title 942845 You cannot delete or rename the Offline Files when you work offline on a Windows Vista-based computer 947224 Error message when you try to connect to a computer that is running
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Here are the new Directory Services-related KB articles for the week. Also, although it isn't entirely new, I was reminded that we have the Windows Server 2008 command reference available now. So here are links to both the 2008 and 2003 versions. They
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Here are the new KB articles for this week that relate to Directory Services . There is an update to Icacls.exe (which is a replacement for CACLS/XCACLS/XCACLS.VBS, etc. for setting NTFS file permissions), updates to TCPIP.SYS and LSASRV.DLL, a Bitlocker
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Hi, Craig here. We are going to be posting the new KB articles that relate to Directory Services . Here are the ones published between Dec. 22-28. For the most part the articles will be for components that our group supports, but we'll also throw in ones
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Hi, Craig here. It can be frustrating to call support only to have your issue resolved by an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Sometimes you are just happy to get the problem solved, but most people prefer to solve something themselves and avoid
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Hi, Ned here. From time to time customers ask us what their options are to document their Active Directory environments – site topologies, domains and trusts, where group policies are linked and what their settings are. Until recently we didn’t have an
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