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Hi a few weeks ago I blogged about recommended best practises of Virtualizing your Domain Controllers environment. I am currently working with a customer on quite a complicated scenario that touches on virtualization and through my research and
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Well here I am with my colleague Mark Empson busily preparing for our Session "Power of Windows 2008" at Teched in Orlando Florida. So Please have a quick prayer on our behalf to the Demo Gods so they will look kindly down on us. I am also working
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If you are going to be utilising RODC in mixed environment (XP and 2003 ), then you need to download the Windows 2008 RODC Compatibility Pack. The Product Group and Dev Team, have been working exceedingly hard to get this released. It addresses the following
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Apologies for not posting for a couple of weeks but I have been head down doing lots and lots of 2008 preparation for a series of gigs I have had coming up over this month and early next month. Last Friday 23rd May I spent a great day @ Microsoft Ireland.
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Sorry for the break in blogging. However I have been away on my holidays to a lovely part of the U.K. Lincolnshire Wolds . Very nice but very cold. Good news for RSAT Client is that it is available in all languages now. Please see below table for
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I have seen quite alot of Windows 2003 Active Directories recently where all the Domain Controllers are Windows 2003 and all the Domain Functional Level are set to Windows 2003. However one key part has been overlooked that is the FOREST Functional Level.
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Hi. I get out to a lot and I mean a lot of customer sites. I also see many Active Directories. Some of them well maintained and some of them facing challenges :). However consistently across these environments there is always a similiar issue that raises
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I thought I would share a few of the useful public links I have come across in my further research around Advanced Group Policy Management, which is available as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. Please see below for the links. I will post
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Well I had a fantastic Time @ Teched IT Forum Last week working on the Ask the Expert Stands with my colleagues from PFE. Myself and Wayne Richards were working on the Server Core Stand alongside Andrew Mason Senior Program Manager of Server Core. There
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A good friend and colleague Mark Empson has entered the Blog Community. He is to be found here http://blogs.technet.com/mempson/ . His main areas of technology will be Platforms and Active Directory. But I happen to know he is an guru on Windows 2008
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Well I am back ...whether you want me here or not. I know I have been really lazy at blogging recently....my excuse....work and catching the a series of ailments from my children. Anyway back I am . During my day job I use a really useful tool to map
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An Interesting question came up at work this week. That was How do you Audit the fact that someone has modified a Group Policy ? Well the general concensus was the following; Check out the following excellent blog article Windows Security Logging and
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Well I was only aware of one particular way to modify the displayname in the Active Directory, and then this only worked for New users. How to change display names of Active Directory users http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250455/ Well a colleague of mine
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I have been informed by a colleague John Gregson of a cool new tool available for download from Windows Sysinternals. This is the Adexplorer tool. Some of the great new features are; Introduction Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced
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I was lucky enough to attend this gentlemens session at Teched this year. It was excellent. You can get hold of the new updated book from here
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