We have published a topic about upgrading domain controllers to Windows Server 2012: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh994618.aspx. It covers a lot of useful background information to help you prepare for an Active Directory upgrade, including system requirements, supported upgrade options, functional...

The DS forum post, Windows 2008 Kerbtray and/or ADSIEdit and other resource kit tools (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/20e16011-9ee3-4068-b631-0407ba691b7b), has been consolidated into the follwing TechNet Wiki article: Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server...

We are posting new articles to the TechNet Wiki that summarize questions and answers that appear in the Directory Services Forum . This week, the following two new wiki articles were posted: Troubleshooting Adprep.exe errors (dsforum2wiki) How to block USB devices (DSForum2Wiki) These are the...

I want to take the opportunity to thank the people who are out there providing information everyday to people using Active Directory. As I say thank you, I will link to their sites, so our readers can find them easily: ActiveDir.org Ask DS (Active Directory Customer Support Services blog) del.icio.us...

del.icio.us Tags: RID , SID , Active Directory , maximum number of accounts Are you in danger of running out of relative identifiers (RIDs) in your domain? If you have not heard of this before, you should see Active Directory Maximum Limits - Scalability and read the section Maximum Number of Security...