I searched and I could not find a step-by-step process that described how to setup a Parent Child configuration using Differencing disks in Hyper-V. I was first taught about this trick in the Connectix / Virtual PC days. The VMWare parlance is linked...

Metadata cleanup is a required procedure after a forced removal of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You perform metadata cleanup on a domain controller in the domain of the domain controller that you forcibly removed. Metadata cleanup removes...

Installing from Media is not new, but Windows Server 2008 does have a new way to create the "seed" media using a new ntdsutil ifm command. For a technet topic that explains the steps to create the media, see Installing AD DS from Media . You can see...

A TechNet Wiki article has been created to explain how to create a mail contact entry using the CSVDE utility for Active Directory. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-import-mail-contact-into-active-directory-using-csvde...

DMZ, which actually stands for demilitarized zone, is a very popular term to refer to the concept of a screened subnet, perimeter network, or essentially a network that is divided from your internal network by a firewall. The problem with the term DMZ...

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...

Launching Tools Using Alternate Credentials from a Command Prompt Window One of the easiest ways to launch tools using alternate credentials is to first launch a Command Prompt with the credentials you want to use. Once the Command Prompt is launched...

The Active Directory Management Gateway Service could be referred to as the Active Directory Web Service (ADWS) for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003. Why? Well, Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers have a built-in service called the Active...

With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta, we are proud to announce the Active Directory Module for Window PowerShell. The Active Directory module is a command line scripting language that network administrators can use to manage their Active Directory...

Did you know that there are certain pre-defined limits of Active Directory? For example, there is a maximum on the number of objects (users, groups, computers, organizational units, group policies, etc.) that can exist in Active Directory; specifically...

The TechNet Wiki article DNS Stops Working on Windows Server 2008 (Event ID 4000,4015,1053,1054) has just been posted in response to popular activity regarding that issue on the Directory Services forum .

The description of the rules for password complexity has been corrected. The new description is more precise about what attributes are checked and more accurate of the categories of characters that must be included in the password in order to meet complexity...

UPDATE: A faster way to open the UAC settings in Windows 7 was just brought to my attention by Dean Wells. Click Start , type UAC and press ENTER. Thanks, Dean! If that doesn’t work for some reason, you can do the following: Run wscui.cpl from...

We have just published an article detailing the new bridgehead server load balancing feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. The new bridgehead server load balancing feature extends the load balancing functionality introduced in Windows Server 2008 RODCs to...

There are a bunch of Microsoft forum questions related to installing the Remote Server Administration Tools on both Windows 7, Windows Vista, and even the server products, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Why? There are three major reasons...

The Event ID 2042 update is now posted on the Windows Server 2008 library: Event ID 2042: It has been too long since this machine replicated Now we have included some potential causes and some text to warn you not to initialize replication again until...

The DS forum post, Is it possible to disable SSLv2 on a Windows 2008 domain controller so that secure LDAP communication is forced to use SSLv3 or TLSv1? , has been consolidated into the following TechNet Wiki article: How to Disable SSLv2 on a...

Customer Support Services (CSS) for Microsoft is still receiving help requests from customers that have cloned or sold off a parts of their Active Directory forest in divestitures, or have acquired parts of split Active Directory forests in mergers and...

Account Operators is a default groups located in the Builtin container. Members of this group can create, modify, and delete accounts for users, groups, and computers located in the Users or Computers containers and organizational units in the domain...

I am really trying to make this TechNet Wiki article PKI Design Brief Overview a place from which we can answer the basic questions regarding PKI design and then point off to the more detailed information. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents...

Active Directory objects can have several different types of attributes. The two basic types are single valued and multivalued. The most frequently asked question regarding attributes that I have seen is that regarding the member attribute because it...

I have just created a Wiki article, Troubleshooting Domain Join Error Messages (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/troubleshooting-domain-join-error-messages.aspx). This article details some of the common error messages when performing...

There is a typo in the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Guide that has affected some customers. The typo appears in the section of the guide that explains the mnemonics of DC Locator DNS Records that should not be registered by the DCs...

This week the Active Directory Maximum Limits - Scalability article was republished with a new friendly URL ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/active-directory-maximum-limits-scalability(WS.10).aspx ). There are plenty of people linking to this...

The DSForum post, EventID 26 & 27 : KDC: suitable keys , has been consolidated into the following TechNet Wiki article: KDC Event ID 26 (dsforum2wiki) Please look the article over and let us know what you think. You can edit the Wiki article...