August, 2010

Hello, faithful readers! Jonathan here again. Today I want to talk a little about Certification Authority monitoring and maintenance. This topic was brought to my attention by a recent case that I had where a customer’s CA database had grown to...

KB Articles There are several articles below that are related to support of Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces and Discontiguous Namespaces.  These will soon be linked to the DNS Namespace Planning Solution Center.  More on that here...

Well, my wife complained one too many times about the old blog image. Now it’s a nice soothing blue with a more worldwide bend, plus some updated “artwork” courtesy of Visio and MS Paint (sorry for cutting you off Australia & New...

Our excellent colleague Keith Combs found this movie created by Microsoft Learning . It is both hilarious and sometimes frighteningly true. Really… To avoid being in a movie yourself: Get trained Get...

Ned here. Today I talk about the importance of the included USMT component manifests and how things can get gross when they are not available to Scanstate and Loadstate. Here’s you You are using USMT 4.0 to migrate from XP to Windows 7...

Mike here and today I want to answer a common customer request—how to force users to logoff at the end of the day. The scenario requires a bit of an explanation, so let’s get started. Let’s recognize the value of forcing users to...

KB Articles Only one new KB article of interest this week: Number Title 2385108 Accessing a folder under a mapped network drive to a Distributed File System Namespace (DFSN) folder target may fail on Windows Vista and later with error “Access is Denied...

Hi, folks! Jonathan here again, and today I want to talk about what appears to be an increasingly common topic: migrating from a single Windows Certification Authority (CA) to a multi-tier hierarchy. I’m going to assume that you already have a basic...