Ask the Directory Services Team

Microsoft's official Enterprise Platform Support DS blog

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