March, 2013

Here’s an interesting question that came to us from one of our readers. If you have a question for us, don't forget that you can contact us using the Contact tile just to the right of this article when viewed from our TechNet blog . Question...

While working with a customer this week on their Active Directory (AD) Site configuration I found out they had not heard about using a /32 or /128 subnet mask. In fact my Bing search did not reveal a lot of information on how and when to use this handy...

One of the great things about the Windows Assessment and Development Kit for Windows 8 is the Windows Performance Toolkit V5.0. The toolkit, itself, has a subset of tools that produce in-depth performance profiles of Windows operating systems and applications...

Here’s an interesting question that came to us from one of the readers. If you have a question for us, don't forget that you can contact us using the Contact tile just to the right of this article when viewed from our TechNet blog . Question: With an...

Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC) was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 to manage directory service objects along with Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) however, it did not win me over until after I saw the enhancements...

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer not knowing the answer to this question or educate thy self… Enough of Shakespeare... Where’s my PFE, when I need him? Well in previous releases of the operating system, customers always depended...

Dougga here to answer a couple of quick RODC related questions.  I have been the fortunate PFE to perform ADRAPs (Active Directory Risk Assessment Program) that have had more than the average number of RODCs . I have also reviewed environments with...

Hey y’all, Mark here with some great news. A massive Slow Boot Slow Login (SBSL) hotfix rollup for enterprises that includes 90 post Windows 7/2008 R2 hotfixes is available for download. The hotfixes focus on performance (Hooray!) and stability...

Windows Server 2012 provided major improvements to the Hyper-V role, including increased consolidation of server workloads, Hyper-V Replica, Cluster Aware Updating (CAU), network virtualization and the Hyper-V extensible switch, just to name a few! Hyper...

By Mike Leary With Windows 8 + Hyper-V you have the opportunity to create a great lab environment on a single workstation. When I build a lab I like it to be isolated from any production network but also flexible enough to get Internet access from...