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...

The Active Directory Maximum Limits and Scalability topic has been recently updated to reflect improvements in Windows Server 2012 to the number of RIDs that can be allocated over the lifetime of a domain. Another update was made to the section about...

In our continuing effort to consolidate forum posts into TechNet Wiki articles, the following two posts are now live out on the Wiki: IE 7 home page not reflecting Group Policy (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/ie...

A couple years back, we posted on TechNet Wiki an older article that was originally published on the TechNet Library by Steve Riley, when he worked at Microsoft. The article is Active Directory Replication over Firewalls . Since publishing it on TechNet...

"All my love's in vain." - "Love in Vain" , Robert Johnson (1911-1938) Hey folks, We know if you read this blog you love to find answers to all your Active Directory questions in our documentation on Microsoft.com. But before you can do that, you...

I have created this URL for Windows Azure AD cmdlets http://aka.ms/aadposh Some people might be searching for them under the name: AAD PowerShell or WAAD PowerShell , but those are not official titles or names. Other URLs created: Windows Azure...

I would like to make everyone aware of the two brand new whitepapers that I and Tom Shinder just published on the TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15530.the-four-pillars-of-identity-identity-management-in...

Hey folks, The AD DS Deployment cmdlets for Windows PowerShell are some of the most powerful and useful (and deep in parameter and feature options) of the many cmdlets that were introduced in Windows Server 2012. If you are not sure how to use these...

Directory Services MVP Alexandre Augagneur posted a script for Auditing Active Directory Subnets to the Microsoft Gallery. The script is able to audit IPv4 and IPv6 subnets. Thank you for your community contribution, Alexadre!

Microsoft MVP Sainath K E V recently posted a tutorial on the TechNet Wiki titled Creating Multiple Active Directory Domains Different Networks using Hyper-v RRAS . The document provides an example of how to create and configure domains across multiple...

Not a typical topic for the Active Directory blog, but MVP Sainath K E V contributed a TechNet Wiki article titled: System Center Orchestrator Security on the TechNet Wiki. The article addresses the question of " How is the Security managed with Orchestrator...

If you are a IT administrator or pretty much anyone who works with computer files a lot, then you are probably aware that by default these file extensions are always hidden. If you are reading this article, you may not agree with that situation. You probably...