Hello Everyone: This is Qasim Zaidi. First of all, welcome to my blog site. Next, I am writing this blog (thanks to a colleague) since some of my customers are running into LDAP limitations which are now hardcoded in Windows Server 2008 and...

Hello all, hope you guys are doing great. Today, I wanted to write a little about Change Notification, why you ask? Simply because one of my customer had a number of questions on what it is, why it’s there and what can be done to enable it for site...

Hello, its "q" again and ready to write something quickly regarding Service Principal Names (SPN). Service Principal Names are registered by services in order for clients to identify them in a domain. Before a client can connect to a service, it must...

Hello there, long time since I updated my blog, you can blame all my customers that have been asking for Upgrade and all the things related to it, hehe, no please don’t. Today, I’d like to quickly explain a proper step by step process to migrate...

Hello everyone, "q" here, now you are wondering what is this q or who it is? Well a dear friend of mine and manager back at Chrysler WHQ (2000-2008) used to call me Q cause though my name starts with Q (Qasim) but the U after Q is MIA, plus I always liked...

Hi, it's q again. This time I'd like to open the discussion on Active Directory (AD) Authoritative Restore. What is it, when do we need it, and how? So without further ado, let's try to answer the three questions. What is an AD Authoritative Restore...

Hello everyone, "q" here, in my last blog on Authoritative Restore, one of the reader "M" suggested I do a blog on AD Recycle Bin so I figure why not :). I am sure you will find lots of information on technet and blog sites regarding what AD Recycle Bin...

Welcome to another edition of qUICKLY Explained, this time we look at GlobalNames Zone or GNZ for DNS Servers running Windows Server 2008 or R2. In the past, a lot of companies have installed in their network a name resolution service called WINS ...

Hi again, q here with more of the qUICKLY explained blog and this time how about we touch on user accounts in AD for the sole and exclusive purpose of running services on member servers and other devices on the network. These accounts are used for service...

Hello everyone, been a while since I did a qUICKLY Blog, all I can say is I was extremely busy with Active Directory and customers who use it :), which is almost every company in the world. so today I am writing about something new which you may not be...

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog again. Lately, I have been involved with discussions around recovery processes and steps for Active Directory, whether it is recovering from an accidental deletion of an object or a TOTAL meaning Forest Recovery...