So you need to upgrade your AD domains and forests to W2K8 or W2K8R2 DCs to take advantage of new cool features. But your concerned about what's going to break once you begin introducing new DCs. Fortunately, we have lots of documentation available...

I have collected some upgrade considerations from a couple colleagues of mine and have been sharing them on our internal technical DLs as the question comes up. I have gotten positive feedback on the notes and have been encouraged to post them. So, here...

I recently came across a DR scenario a colleague worked on that I thought should be documented so administrators can adequately plan for this or prevent it from occurring in the first place. This scenario can only happen in a forest that started life...

This is part 2 of my lingering object blog series. The purpose of this blog is to help customers with Windows 2000 DCs make informed decisions on how to tackle this problem on a forest wide scope. For the sake of brevity, please review my first blog on...

So, you want to clean up your forest of lingering objects before you set your forest to strict? Good choice! This little database inconsistency can cause big business continuity issues. A change to strict replication consistency while lingering objects...