Notes From The IT Shop (Not in the field anymore)
Miscellaneous Ramblings from a Microsoft Service Engineer
gMSA Support in MIM
The newest version of the MIM 2016 SP1 hotfix adds gMSA support for the product. However, there are...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 10/15/2018
MIM PAM 2016 SP1 Installation and Admin Role Separation
Now that SP1 of MIM 2016 is out, I've been tasked to install and configure it. Simple, I thought....
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 09/30/2016
VM File Format: VHD or VHDX?
Many people out there, including myself, were excited about the new innovations a few years back...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 02/22/2016
Microsoft Identity Manager
It's now official: Microsoft Identity Manager 2016, the replacement for FIM, is now released to the...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 08/06/2015
Great New FIM Blog
A couple of my colleagues have taken it upon themselves to share their knowledge and experience...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 10/08/2014
Fun With Office 365
I’m experimenting now with Office 365. I rather like it. But, let me back up a bit. A while ago, as...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 07/20/2013
Storage Spaces Expansion
After my last foray into creating a new Storage Space, I converted my file server’s data...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 06/19/2013
More On Storage Spaces and ReFS
Since my last post below, I have had quite some time to work with Storage Spaces and ReFS along side...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 03/04/2013
New Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces
It seems that when you begin using Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces and new disks, you get to play...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 08/03/2012
Windows 8 Released
Today, a news bulletin has been release announcing the release of Windows 8....
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 08/01/2012
Declarative Provisioning in FIM and DN Values
Now that my customers are beginning to move forward with FIM 2010 implementations away from ILM...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 10/26/2011
Parallel Task Execution for ILM/FIM using PowerShell
Last year, I wrote about how I would use VBScript to execute run profiles in ILM/FIM in parallel...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 09/26/2011
SP1 And Dynamic Memory
With the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, a few new features were...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 02/11/2011
Parallel Task Execution For ILM/FIM With VBScript
In my quest for a better way to customize run profiles for FIM, I thought I’d utilize the...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 05/24/2010
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Now RTM
As of today, my favorite product – or at least the one I’m using most these days – has now had the...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 03/02/2010
Easy Web Application Installs
Normally, when people start talking about blogging or hosting a custom web application like Gallery...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 04/08/2009
Some Quirks With IE8
Today, checking my email via Outlook Web Access, I noticed a difference in how graphic inserts are...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 03/24/2009
A Small Concern When Virtualizing Domain Controllers - Time Sync
I'm sure this might open a can of worms, but it's a discussion that needs to happen. As...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 02/13/2009
A New Better Hypervisor
If you've been following the news (and by news I mean the important stuff like technology and...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 10/03/2008
Some Easy Active Directory Scripting
I solved a little problem for a customer the other day and I thought I'd share a little about it...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 08/26/2008
Remote Office Server Consolidation With Hyper-V and BitLocker
Do you remember the days when servers for remote offices were under someone's desk or in a janitor's...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 06/04/2008
Upgrading Your SYSVOL to DFS-R Replication
Many papers and KB articles have been posted about the "old-style" SYSVOL replication, or...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 04/27/2008
DNS Client Configuration for Windows DNS Servers
Since we are on the topic of DNS as it relates to Windows and Active Directory, I thought I'd bring...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 03/25/2008
DNS Referrals On Client?
I learned something new last week. It has to do with DNS recursive vs. iterative lookups and how the...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 03/04/2008
Wscript.Network
One of my favorite objects is the Wscript.Network object. It's a very simple way to access certain...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 02/26/2008
Brave New World
Sitting in training today, the class topic was scripting. Now, most of you admins out there have...
Author: Jeffrey D. Phillips Date: 02/25/2008