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June 2004 - Posts

Changing Exchange server OU's

Posted Monday, June 28, 2004 1:38 PM by btrst4
If you change the OU membership of your Exchange 2000 servers, you may run into a common issue. This issue might be benign, but the events in the event log certainly are disconcerting. The article ( 271335 ) explains in detail. After you move Exchange Read More...
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Group Policy Management Console SP1 Released

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:14 PM by btrst4
Link here . GPMC with Service Pack 1 contains the following updates: Various bug fixes . GPMC with SP1 fixes customer-reported bugs found in GPMC sample scripts, GPO reporting, and in the Migration Table Editor (MTE). Furthermore, fixes have been provided Read More...
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MIIS cold stand-by licensing change

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:07 PM by btrst4
New licensing rules from Microsoft to Software Assurance customers allow for cold stand-by MIIS servers without the additional cost. Read here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=12D01621-2A23-4EAB-91C0-064A47D64AB6&displaylang=en Read More...
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William Hung is my hero...

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:44 PM by btrst4
Scary that I even know who he is, because I do not watch American Idol. This guy ( http://www.williamhung.net ) has built a career on basically nothing. At the same time, I tell my kids all the time how important it is to do something with confidence Read More...
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File Replication Service (FRS) troubleshooting tools

Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:36 PM by btrst4
The File Replication Service, or FRS, is a critical component of an Active Directory deployment. When it has problems, it can be a lot tougher to troubleshoot than basic AD replication. There are some good Microsoft tools out there that can help. There Read More...
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Does anyone know how to get a song out of your head?

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:32 PM by btrst4
Somehow, I have “Oops I did it again” stuck in my head. If anyone knows how to remove it, please let me know. I had heard that singing “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant will remove songs from your head, but that is not currently Read More...
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New command line tools for W2K3 Active Directory

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:42 PM by btrst4
These aren't really that new, but they were newly added when Windows Server 2003 was released. Windows had some AD command line tools like ldifde and csvde, but the new tools can be very handy. In fact, there are actually tons of new command line tools Read More...
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2004 MIIS Users' Group Meeting

Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:55 PM by btrst4
First off, does everyone know there is a really good users' group for MIIS/MMS? Good community out there to help with questions/issues around MIIS. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMSUG . Also, this users group is holding its annual users' group meeting Read More...
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"Access is denied" is so frustrating!!!

Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:50 PM by btrst4
Grrr.... I spent a bunch of time recently troubleshooting one of these, so I thought I'd share in case it saves someone else some trouble. We setup some Exchange 2003 servers on Windows 2003. Some clustered and some not. In a number of places, we would Read More...
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Active Directory LDAP Compliance

Posted Monday, June 07, 2004 12:07 PM by btrst4
Good paper on the compliance of Windows 2000/2003 and LDAPv3 standards. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/ldapcomp.mspx Read More...
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Identity Management Resources - Getting Started

Posted Sunday, June 06, 2004 8:38 PM by btrst4
I have had people email me looking for information on how to get started. There is a TON of great information out on the web. I have some good places to start below. One of the best things available to learn from is the “scenarios” or “walkthroughs” Read More...
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