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If you've read any of my prior posts, you know I like to be able to do things without a lot of prep, in a short amount of time. Yes, I like the K.I.S.S principle – Keep It Simple, Stan. I also enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes when I can leave work and know that I actually made progress...

Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick post. A while back Tom Moser and I wrote a powershell script to help backup and remove ADM files. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2011/12/12/how-to-implement-the-central-store-for-group-policy-admin-templates-completely-hint-remove-those-adm-files...

With Windows Server 2012, there are tools, features and functions that are available from the first member server (or Win8 PC with the RSAT pack - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972 ). ** You don't need a schema extension, you don't need to deploy any 2012 Domain Controllers...

Sometimes, we Microsoft engineers get called into a 'forensics' type situation to help a customer try to answer the "W" questions - where someone (WHO?) did something (WHAT?) at some point (WHEN?) in Active Directory (AD) or some other aspect of a Windows infrastructure. Usually, if we get the call,...

We’ve recently received some great feedback from several customers and other PFEs on the ADM template post that Mark and I wrote a month or two back. I thought I’d take some time to respond to some of those questions and to post an updated version of the script. Going forward, we plan to...

Pre Req: This post assumes you are not using the TS method of managing GPOs documented, at http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/12/09/windows-7-windows-server-2008-r2-and-the-group-policy-central-store.aspx In the field we commonly see two scenarios around the Central Store for Group Policy...