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You probably already knew this, but better late than never. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 has been released. What is it good for and how does it work? Assessment & Readiness - Windows 7 readiness, Windows Vista Hardware Assessment,
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Ned-san here again. Customers frequently call us about configuring their servers to listen over specific network ports. This is usually to satisfy firewall rules – more on this later. A port in TCP/IP is simply an endpoint to communication between computers.
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Ned here again. The AD Replication Monitor utility ( Replmon.exe ) was introduced with the Windows Server 2000 Support Tools many years ago as a GUI mechanism for performing certain DC admin tasks. With the release of Window Server 2008 Replmon was not
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Hi, Rusty here to discuss a recent problem that we resolved using the export and import features of Ldifde.exe . During the usability testing phase of an inter-forest migration to a new forest of the same name, our customer discovered that smart card
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Ned here again. If you are at all interested in security, here is a must-read: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 6 (July - December 2008) This covers trends and perspectives on: Software vulnerabilities (both in Microsoft software and in third-party
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Here is a nice overview of the new MPSReports and what it collects. Proactively running this before contacting support has been known to greatly reduce time to resolution. :-) http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2009/05/01/two-minute-drill-the-new-mps-reports.asp
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http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2009/04/27/recovering-a-deleted-cluster-name-object-cno-in-a-windows-server-2008-failover-cluster.aspx
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Ned here. A few big pieces of news, in case you've been having a busy week: Netmon 3.3 has been released . You can download from here . Read more about the new features (such as autoscroll, frame commenting, experts, WWAN support, and more) right here
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Ned here again with a quick reminder: Support for computers running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 ends on April 14th, 2009. Yes, that's just under a month from now. After that point there will be no hotfixes, security updates, or support for computers
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Our colleagues in Japan have started a new platforms support blog. Make sure you give them a read if you're supporting Windows anywhere in Nippon. :) http://blogs.technet.com/jpntsblog/ 幸運の人! - Ned Pyle
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Ned here again. William Stanek has released a couple of new books through Microsoft Press that any AD administrator will find indespensible: Active Directory Administrator's Pocket Consultant Group Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant In William's
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Hi, it's Adam Conkle from the Microsoft Directory Services team. I recently encountered a disaster recovery situation with an ADAM instance where objects were accidentally deleted, and the customer required help performing the restore of those objects
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Hi, Steve again. I thought I would speak through a series of posts about what knowledge is critical to fulfilling the Windows Server Domain Admin role. This topic carries a ton of breadth and depth knowledge. As a beginning, you have to find out where
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Ned here again. I recently spent a week with Microsoft Support Engineers from all over the world, and bumped into a colleague that works in MS Spain, out of Madrid. She mentioned that they had a Spanish-language blog focused on Directory Services, networking,
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Ned here again. We recently had a very lively discussion about 'Lag Sites' as a disaster recovery option. If you've been digging around the MS Download Center, you may have already come across Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 . After some digging,
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