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- Ned Pyle
New KB articles related to Directory Services for the week of 4/5-4/11.
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Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP clients cannot obtain certificates from a Windows Server 2008-based certification authority (CA) if the CA is configured to use SHA2 256 or higher encryption
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On a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista, the certificates and the cryptographic keys are unusable after the user password is changed on another network computer
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After the Active Directory RMS role is decommissioned on a Windows Server 2008-based server, users cannot open documents that IRM helps protect
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An error occurs when you run the ADPREP/FORESTPREP command on a Windows Server 2003-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer: "An attribute with the same link identifier already exists"
New KB articles related to Directory Services for the week of 4/11-4/18.
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A DNS zone transfer between two Windows Server 2003-based DNS servers generates incomplete zone data when the DNS transfer process stops unexpectedly
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The Tcpipv6.sys driver stops responding to any TCP/IPv6 requests on a Windows Server 2003 SP2-based computer when the driver binds to many network adapters
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All network share access through the SMB protocol (client-side redirector) may fail on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
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Windows Server 2003 SP2-based domain controllers return incorrect error code to Kerberos requests during the shutdown process
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Windows 7 clients cannot locate the Active Directory Management Gateway service that is installed on Windows Server 2003-based domain controllers
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A Windows Server 2003-based file server may return file identifiers (Fids) that have the 0xffff value under heavy stress
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Some files are missing on a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer after a DFSR replication
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Users cannot perform authentication through ADFS in a Windows Server 2003 R2 environment when the UPN suffixes contain a character that expands to a two-letter pair
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How do I enable User Account Control in Windows Vista?
New KB articles related to Directory Services for the week of 4/19-4/25.
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You cannot use a UPN-formatted user name to log on to a Windows Server 2003-based FTP server that is running IIS 6.0 if the domain controller for authentication is running Windows Server 2008
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Windows Server 2008-based domain controllers cannot negotiate Quality of Protection (QoP) for Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections from non-Windows LDAP clients
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You may see garbled text on the logon page when you connect to a Terminal Services RemoteApp application from the Administration Console for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Management Server
New KB articles related to Directory Services for the week of 3/28-4/5.
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Roaming user profiles are ignored if the network connection to the remote server that stores the roaming user profile is slow
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On a computer that runs Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, after you rename, delete, or move the files in a network share that is hosted on a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computer, files are still listed in the network share
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IIS logging for Windows Integrated authentication
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German Version of AGPM translates "State" incorrectly
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The memory usage of the Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Certificate Services (Certsrv.exe) may keep increasing when third-party plug-ins are installed and certificate requests are rejected
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The tracing option for Group Policy Preferences uses incorrect code in the German version of Windows Server 2008-based systems
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A check box in the German edition of Windows Server 2008 was translated incorrectly from the English edition
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The SYSVOL share migration from FRS to DFSR fails on Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta-based servers if a disjoint namespace is configured