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Blog Post: Fine Grained Password Policies GUI in Windows Server 2012 ADAC

Paulo Viralhadas

Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Have you ever used Fine Grained Password Policies? This feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 allows you to override password policy set at the domain level. It applies password settings to subsets of users...

on12 Apr 2013
Blog Post: AD recycle bin feature and Windows Server 2012 GUI

Paulo Viralhadas

Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. The AD recycle bin feature has been released on Windows Server 2008 R2 without a graphical user interface, which made it's deployment and usability (I mean recovering deleted objects from AD) somewhat difficult for...

on18 Mar 2013
Blog Post: So you wanted to deploy Domain Controllers faster...Now you can!

Paulo Viralhadas

A Domain Controller must have a unique name, invocation ID, and security identifier (SID) in the entire forest. Up to Windows Server 2008 R2 promoting "syspreped" standalone images multiple times, was the fastest you could go in order to deploy a large number of Domain Controllers. Sysprep was needed...

on11 Dec 2012
Blog Post: USN Rollback, Virtualized DCs and improvements on Windows Server 2012.

Paulo Viralhadas

The USN rollback issue has been causing hundreds of support calls and AD replication halts throughout the world since the introduction of AD in Windows 2000 Server and up to Windows Server 2008 R2. Every DC maintains a table - ReplUpToDateVector - (or Up-to-Dateness Vector) per Naming Context (NC...

on10 Dec 2012