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Tom Moser answers a reasonably frequently asked question about cross-organization domain controller location , and shows his work! One key point: This post is about the a scenario where the subnets in the two forests do not overlap (i.e., client’s IP address from forest A is not covered by any subnet...

Summary : Holger Hatzfeld , a Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer, provides us with a PowerShell script that deploys customizable performance logs to any or all of you domain-connected servers, effectively mimicking flight recorders for server performance capture. Powerful stuff. Hello...

Summary: Gregg O’Brien , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, makes a case for not throwing sand in your face and correct zipper placement when dealing with a Certificate Revocation List Distribution Point (CDP) in Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services. The moral of his story...

Summary : Bryan Zink , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the US, continues his exploration into RAP as a Service for Active Directory, the exciting new toolset and offering from Microsoft Services, and provides us details on how to leverage the RaaS toolset on an on-going basis. This...

Summary : Bryan Zink , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the US, continues his exploration into RAP as a Service for Active Directory, the exciting new toolset and offering from Microsoft Services, and provides us details on the data collection and submission process. This is the second...

Summary : Bryan Zink , one of our esteemed Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineers based in the US, dives into the details of what you need to do to get ready for RAP as a Service for Active Directory in order to optimize your experience with this exciting new toolset and offering from Microsoft Services...

Hello everyone, my name is Yong Rhee and I’m a Premier Field Engineer.  In this post, I’m excited to discuss a new Premier Support offering called Risk Assessment Program (RAP) as a Service ( or RaaS for short ). For those that are not familiar with RAP, it is a Microsoft Services Premier Support...

A Very Happy New Year 2013 from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team! Back to work now! Nilesh Patel , our PFE in the US East region, has created some very detailed guides on deploying PKI solutions: In the first article , he walks us through the steps to create a single tier PKI deployment using...

Gregg O’Brien is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada. In this post he talks about the ‘certificate explosion’ phenomenon and suggests a way to mitigate it. Introduction We live in some very exciting times – we have so many devices to choose from: desktops, laptops, tablets, hybrids/convertibles...

Mark M* has even more information to help you address Active Directory time rollback problems, over at AskPFEPlat . I’ll paste his table of contents below: Recovering from a time rollback is a complex situation so read each step carefully and don’t skip ahead or you’ll make the...

Mark Morowczynski posted about a developing situation where the public usno.navy.mil time clock jumped back to 2000, and if your DCs were syncing from it, what to do about it . We are seeing some reports that some Active Directory Domain times are reverting to November 2000. So what just happened? I...

Tom at AskPfePlat has put some time in to looking at virtualized Domain Controller support in Windows Server 2012. Until now, cloning, snapshotting, copying, or pretty much doing anything but rebuilding from scratch to a virtual domain controller wasn't just unsupported; it had the potential to be really...

Not any more, they’re not! As long as you take Ashley McGlone’s advice in Freaky neat Active Directory site links with PowerShell : Today's post will help you clean up site link descriptions and give you some nice reporting capability. For a quick overview of the terminology you can read the landmark...