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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:09 AM

Identity and Access Webcast Series

Here's some info on some upcoming webcasts... This first series is for the "Technical Decision Makers", but I'll post the "IT Pro" series when they get announced. -Brian -------------- Microsoft offers a broad range of technologies and products to enable
Posted by bpuhl | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:54 PM

x64 Domain Controllers

Had an e-mail thread with Joe recently, which also resulted in this blog entry . He's a consultant for another big tech company, and was working with a customer that was migrating a lot of non-domain joined machines to AD as well as deploying other AD
Posted by bpuhl | 17 Comments
Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:03 AM

Useful repadmin switch

Repadmin is the "swiss army knife" of AD tools - But the following can be one of those "big red buttons" that you keep in your back pocket and hopefully never need. But sometimes it's just useful to slow things down until you figure out what's going on...
Posted by bpuhl | 0 Comments
Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:06 AM

AD Training

hmmm....ok, so here's an interesting problem: I'm a Microsoft employee. My blog is hosted on Technet.com. And I'm pretty sure that there is a policy somewhere, which I'm unaware of, that addresses blog posts about 3rd party companies... But I've never
Posted by bpuhl | 5 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:54 PM

AD and DC Builds, tweaks, configurations... The Registry

The first installment, what our hardware looks like, may have been useful...but I know that's not really the juicy gossip that everyone is looking for...so here's a quick and follow-up with the registry tweaks that we set internally... Strict Replication
Posted by bpuhl | 160 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:50 PM

AD and DC Builds, tweaks, configurations... (1)

I received a mail from a blog reader (Jim) who asked: "Can you provide any insight regarding and tweaks or configuration settings you guys use on your DC builds?" Sure, I'm happy to do this, so here I am typing happily along, and realized that there is
Posted by bpuhl | 675 Comments
Friday, June 02, 2006 9:19 PM

Interesting SSID and Reusing Attributes

I bought a new truck a few months ago, and right on schedule (as the salesman promised), as I was coming due for my first oil change, I got a card for my first one free at the dealership. Never being one to turn down a free deal, I dropped in the other
Posted by bpuhl | 1 Comments
Monday, December 12, 2005 8:32 AM

How MS IT Does ADFS Value Card now available...

The Microsoft ADFS value card is now available for download...
Posted by bpuhl | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:31 PM

Time, time, everyone wants time...

In a previous post about managing FSMO roles, I asked a question about who remembers to configure the new server as an authoritative time source when transferring the PDC FSMO role. The reason I ask this, is because when you look at managing the FSMO
Posted by bpuhl | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:45 PM

What to do with FSMO roles...

We recently hired a new engineer to a team which manages some of the internal MS environments... We were discussing FSMO role placement and he sent me mail (snippet below slightly edited) which I thought was interesting... The reason why we separated
Posted by bpuhl | 7 Comments
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:26 PM

Bulk Password Resets

When a user resets their password, what happens? What about if ALL your users reset their password? Can your infrastructure handle it? Are there "special" changes that you'd want to make? More importantly, this is probably such an edge case that it's
Posted by bpuhl | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:47 PM

How Does MSIT Do...DC Placement?

In the past couple of months, I've been asked at least 3 or 4 times how MS IT determines where on their network to place domain controllers. The questions are usually coming from larger, enterprise type customers and usually sound something like this:
Posted by bpuhl | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:21 PM

How Does Microsoft IT Do...

Engineers in Microsoft IT spend an unusually large amount of time talking to customers answering questions which start with: How Does Microsoft IT Do...<fill in the blank here>? I'm going to try to start to post some of the more common questions
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