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It’s been four years and 591 posts since AskDS reached critical mass. You’d hope our party would look like this:  But it’s more likely to be: Without you, we’d be another of those sites that glow red hot, go supernova, then collapse into a white dwarf . We really appreciate your comments, questions...

Three years ago today the AskDS site published its first post and had its first commenter . In the meantime we’ve created 455 articles and we’re now ranked 6th in all of TechNet’s blogs, behind AskPerf , Office2010 , MarkRussinovich , SBS , and HeyScriptingGuy . That’s a pretty amazing group to be lumped...

Hello everyone, this is Shravan from the Active Directory team and Jason from the System Center VMM team here at Microsoft. This is part 2 of the blog series where we discuss how to migrate Active Directory domain controllers to a virtualized system. Last time we discussed how to plan for moving the...

Hello Everyone, this is Shravan from the Active Directory team and Jason from the System Center VMM team here at Microsoft. We will be discussing a scenario that comes up often: how to migrate active directory domain controllers to a virtualized system. Why Now? Reduce Cost! Reduce Cost! Reduce...

Hello, this is Sabin and Shravan from the Microsoft Directory Services Support team. We are back to cover the third and final part of this series to troubleshoot slowness/delay experienced by clients in accessing a DFS Namespace. As a recap, in Part 1 of this blog, we reviewed the referral process for...

Hello, this is Sabin and Shravan from the Microsoft Directory Services Support team once again. We will continue our discussion regarding slowness/delay experienced by clients in accessing a DFS Namespace. In Part 1 of this blog, we reviewed the referral process for Domain Based Namespaces and took a...

Hello, this is Sabin and Shravan from the Microsoft Directory Services Support team. We are here today to discuss one of the common customer issues where they are seeing a delay in accessing a DFS Namespace. Some of these issues may manifest as affecting user’s experience on the machine where redirected...