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Hi folks, Ned here and welcoming you to 2012 with a new Friday Mail Sack. Catching up from our holiday hiatus, today we talk about: Disabling Administrative Shares Making Get-ADDomainController useful’er Kerberos group bloat USMT moving profiles back from other disks The DFSR...

Hi, Mike here again. Today, I want to write about a common administrative task that can lead to disaster: removing stale computer accounts from Active Directory. Removing stale computer accounts is simply good hygiene-- it’s the brushing and flossing of Active Directory. Like tartar, computer accounts...

Hi folks, Ned here again. Despite the reputation for cutting edge technology, a lot of IT departments can get stuck in the now or worse, the past. Since it’s a new year, a new economy, and winter is coming to a close, here are some articles you should find interesting if you are looking to the...

Hello folks, Ned here again. Previously I explained how swapping out existing storage can be a method to migrate an existing DFSR environment to new hardware or operating system. Now in this final article I will discuss how reinstallation or an in-place upgrade can be used to deploy a later version of...

Hello folks, Ned here again. Previously I covered how to use an N+1 server placement method to migrate an existing DFSR environment to new hardware or operating system. Now I will show you how to replace servers in an existing Replication Group using the disk swap method. Make sure you review the...

Hello readers, Ned here again. In the previous two blog posts I discussed planning for DFSR server replacements and how to ensure you are properly pre-seeding data. Now I will show how to replace servers in an existing Replication Group using the N+1 Method to minimize interruption. Make sure you...

Ned here again. Previously I discussed options for performing a hardware or OS replacement within an existing DFSR Replication Group. As part of that process you may end up seeding a new server’s disk with data from an existing server. Pre-seeded files exactly match the copies on an upstream server...

Hello folks, Ned here again to kick off a new five-part series on DFSR. With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, the warming of economies, and the timing of hardware leases, we have started seeing more questions around replacing servers within existing DFSR Replication Groups. Through the series...

Hi all, Ned here again. We’ve gotten word that the SCOM 2007 management pack for file services has reached beta and is available to the public on our Connect site. Here’s the info: Overview The File Services Team is proud to announce the beta release of our File Services Management...

Hi all Rob Greene here again. I thought I would share with you how to do some common tasks with a Windows Server 2008 clustered Certification Authority (CA). When the CA is clustered there are definitely different steps that need to be taken when you: Make a change to the behavior of the CA by...

Hi, Ned here again. I’ve been assigned to the Platforms beta team here for the past year. One question I’ve gotten a zillion times is which versions of Windows Server 2003 can be upgraded to 2008 R2. Our documentation is rather confusing – working on that – but here’s a...

Ned here again. The DFSR development team has posted a new series for anyone wanting top learn more about the new DFSR clustering capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 . It's pretty indepth and walks you through the entire process. Deploying DFS Replication on a Windows Failover Cluster –...

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