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Hiya world, Ned is back with your best questions and comments. I’ve been off to teach this fall’s MCM , done Win8 stuff , and generally been slacking keeping busy; sorry for the delay in posting. That means a hefty backlog - get ready to slurp. Today we talk: Weirdness with NETDOM...

Hi folks, Ned here again with another tri-weekly Friday Mail Sack. This time we talk service auditing, trust creation, certificates and USMT, SYSVOL migration with RODCs, DFS stuff, RPC and firewalls, virtualization, and the zombie corpse of FRS. Shoot it in the head! Trusts prompting for credentials...

Hi folks, Ned here again. I recently wrote a KB article about some expected DCDIAG.EXE behaviors . This required reviewing DCDIAG.EXE as I wasn’t finding anything deep in TechNet about the “Services” test that had my interest. By the time I was done, I had found a dozen other test behaviors...

Hello there folks, it's Ned . I’ve been out of pocket for a few weeks and I am moving to a new role here, plus Scott and Jonathan are busy as #$%#^& too, so that all adds up to the blog suffering a bit and the mail sack being pushed a few times. Never fear, we’re back with some goodness...

Hello folks, Ned here again. After a week in Las Colinas Texas, the blog migration, and Jonathan’s attempted coup, we are still standing. Since I’m sure your whole day has been designed around this post I won’t keep you waiting. RODC WAN down behavior DFSR and the PDCE RPC...

Hi all, Ned here again. Today I will share some recent questions we’ve gotten offline that never ended up as full blown blog posts. Naturally any names have been changed to protect the innocent and things are often paraphrased. This post starts a new series that will appear every Friday, barring...

Hello all, Jason here again. With this blog post, I just wanted to bring an ADMT issue to the masses’ attention, as I’ve experienced it multiple times within just the last couple of months. There’s an issue when attempting to migrate computer account objects into a Windows 2008 domain that had been...

Hello again - Bob Drake here. Today I will be talking about a particular behavior with account lockouts that might be seen with the introduction of “ Read-Only Domain Controllers ” (RODC's) in Windows Server 2008. Windows 2008 RODC’s are domain controllers that can authenticate users...

Hello there. Bob Drake here to discuss how Windows Server 2008 “Read Only Domain Controllers” (RODC’s) authenticate users differently from the way Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 standard domain controllers do. The “ Read Only Domain Controller ” is new to Windows...