About AskDS

About AskDS

Welcome to the official Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support Directory Services blog. We support Active Directory and its associated components - Group Policies, Certificate Services, DFS and Kerberos, to name but a few.

So why are we blogging?  We want to help advise our readers about Active Directory - whether they are our direct customers, admins who are new to AD, or anyone else who is just interested.  We also provide troubleshooting info, emerging issue info, and a way for you to ask MS support questions. 

We support:

• AD Administration and Design
• Domain Controllers and Global Catalogs
• AD Replication (KCC, Sites, ISTG), Bridgeheads
• LDAP
• FSMO Roles
• DCPROMO
• AD Schema
• AD Disaster Recovery
• Trust Relationships and Federation
• ADFS
• Domain and Profile Migration (ADMT & USMT)
• Certificate Services and Authorities
• EFS
• LSASS, KDC, & Winlogon
• Kerberos, NTLM, and SChannel
• File Replication (FRS & DFSR)
• Distributed File System Namespaces (DFSN)
• W32 Time Service
• Permissions & Privileges
• Auditing
• Group Policy and Group Policy Preferences
• AGPM
• User Profiles, Roaming Profiles, Folder Redirection
• Client Side Caching - Offline Files and Folders
• Terminal Server Licensing
• AppLocker
• AD PowerShell
• USMT