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Hi , I had an interesting issue with a customer recently. After a recent promotion of a couple of Domain Controllers , it came to light some time later that users were able to set their passwords to 0 e.g. minimum password length = 0. On investigation
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well this is a rather neat addition to our methods of learning. If you really want to just dip your toe into a subject and have a “snack” then please see the following range of “Learning Snacks” For other Windows Server 2008 Learning Snacks, please
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Hi just a quick post while I think of it. I have just found a GUI to our Recycle Bin Powershell command line. Check it out and download from here. http://www.overall.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40:adrecyclebin&catid=15:adrecyclebinexe&Itemid=64
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Working with my customer today on a funny little error that keeps reappearing in their DNS Logs Event Type: Error Event Source: DNS Event Category:
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Hi Everyone, I had a great evening last night at Cardinal Place Microsoft in London. I was presenting at the ADUG ( Active Directory Users Group ) meeting as run by Mark Parris . My session was on AGPM V.30 plus also highlighting some of the key
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Hello Everyone, I am now back after my summer holidays and various excursions abroad. So I intend to get back to some regular blogging. The Group Policy team have been busy and have now updated collated and made it easier to download the Group Policy
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I have been tracking this for a while and I think it is important enough to bring this to your attention as the update has now gone live June 9th and may when applied have an impact in your environment. The original issue was brought to our
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I have been working with 2008 Forests and customers moving towards this environment quite alot recently. Therefore I would like to bring your attention to a newly completed and updated guide which is now available for download; The Read-Only Domain Controller
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On the theme of going Virtual and saving all those expensive Travel Costs. Then MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainers) checkout this opportunity to get some excellent online technical and professional training. Being an MCT since 1996 …. :).
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Hi Everyone, Hot of the press is the new Active Directory Disaster Recovery Guide which has been updated to reflect new features and functionality you can leverage with 2008. Download it from Here In particular it talks about; 1. Read Only Domain
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This has been a question that has come up with several of my customers recently. Therefore I thought this would be a good topic to discuss. Modifying the Schema is something that is a necessary action prior to carrying out installation of Directory Enabled
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I had an interesting investigation the other day with a customer of mine with reference to the role and failover of the ISTG role. In the customers scenario they switch off the ISTG and several other servers in a very busy site to simulate a outage scenario.
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Hi myself and a colleague Richard Diver will be talking at the upcoming ADUG as run Mark Parris on the 15th of June @6.15pm. http://adug.eventbrite.com/ . This will be held at our London Office Microsoft (London) Cardinal Place 100 Victoria Street
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A little while ago I posted about what is considered best practice with regards to the Default Domain Controller policies and Default Domain Policy. http://blogs.technet.com/janelewis/archive/2007/04/24/just-don-t-do-it.aspx At the time I was struggling
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The Active Directory 2008 Operations guide is now available for download from this location. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=291bddb7-edc6-4e6d-9852-a9a14991d67c&displayLang=en
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