Mark Empson's Blogalot : Active Directory

ADPREP Challenges

mempson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:07:00 GMT

I had an interesting challenge last month and figured that this is a great one for my blog. Being based in England, I had never come across this issue before so it was very interesting. I arrived on a customer site to help perform a Windows Server 2008...(read more)

Registry.pol fun

mempson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:04:00 GMT

Hi all, This month, I ran into an interesting challenge to do with group policies. Specifically, I was trying to figure out why a client was not getting a specific setting. While it is was the Group Policy Object (GPO) and it the version of the GPT.ini...(read more)

Playing with NAP

mempson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:07:33 GMT

Hi all, I have been playing with Network Access Protection (NAP) recently and have a few pointers that may help you all out :) Event ID 204 on the NAP server is raised when clients do not meet policy requirements Event ID...(read more)

Advanced Group Policy Management V3

mempson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:08:00 GMT

I was looking into AGPM v3 recently and thought that it would be good to put a reference to it on my Blog. The challenging thing is, this is a great tool but you have to know about it first to then realise it!. If you like Group Policies, then you will...(read more)

Virtualising servers

mempson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:20:00 GMT

Hi All, I have started collecting a list of whitepapers based upon virtualisation of domain controllers and services, I just figured that you may find these of use! KB897615 Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization...(read more)

Manual Connection objects in Active Directory

mempson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Hi All, I had a question today that I wanted to get to the bottom of, it is an old question but as I obviously forgot the answer in detail, I had to find it. :) The queston was "How can I tell if a connection object is manual or not?" The first obvious...(read more)

Poster Central

mempson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:27:00 GMT

Hi all, Ever wanted a change in decor in your house? rather than boring old patterned wallpaper, what about getting some great posters with core components of specific technologies to put in their place... amaze your friends, impress your spouse.. check...(read more)

Repadmin - THE tool of Kings

mempson — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:39:00 GMT

So, you are having trouble with Active Directory eh? wondering what great secrets Microsoft have for troubleshooting AD? When I first started to work for the big M, I was expecting to get a load of tools that would help me troubleshoot AD, tools that...(read more)

How to find out who has your FSMO Roles?

mempson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:08:00 GMT

There are four main ways to read the FSMO role holders in Active Directory, an easy way, the common way, the cool way and the hard way. Lets review them all: The easy way: NetDOM /query FSMO The Common way: How to Determine the RID, PDC, and Infrastructure...(read more)