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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:37 PM

The limits of Active Directory

A few years ago, at my first IT job, my manager told me that there was a server at Microsoft, and all day long it created objects in a test Active Directory Domain.  "This server has been running since Windows Server 2000 was released"
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 4:54 AM

Active Directory How-Tos

How do I back up AD? Seize an Operations Manager role? Recover a Domain Controller? Manage SYSVOL? There's a guide for that... Active Directory Product Operations Guide Process: Back up Active Directory Process: Non-authoritative Restore of Active Directory
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:12 PM

What's that service?

Ever wish that someone at Microsoft would write up a list of all the services that come with Windows Server/client?  Perhaps something that lists the executable command line, the account that the service runs under, a description of what the service
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:27 PM

The top Active Directory Issues

The Ask the Directory Services Team blog has a great post on the top 50 KB articles used to solve issues in Directory Services support during the first quarter of Microsoft fiscal year 2008 (July 2007 through September 2007). I list the top 10 below,
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:15 PM

Map Active Directory in Visio

I see that we released the Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer today. I'm working from home today, so I can't run it in AD and attach a screenshot, but this should be helpful for documenting your AD infrastructure. According to the product
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Monday, April 30, 2007 7:47 PM

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 released!

Downloading the bits right now (while watching Ray Ozzie's keynote here: http://www.visitmix.com/ :) Today Microsoft released Windows Server Update Services version 3.0 to our website for download. Below are links to where you can get it as well as read
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:00 AM

Install Windows Server 2003 Adminpak (Administration Tools Pack) on Vista

It's always frustrating when an update to one program from a company breaks compatibility with another program from the same company. In the case of Microsoft, the Windows 2003 SP1 Admin tools (adminpak.msi) do not work on Windows Vista. Windows Server
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:17 AM

Windows 2003 SP2 Released

I'm sure many of you will notice shortly (as the Service Pack is replicated out to all the download sites and Windows Update), but Service Pack 2 has been released for Windows Server 2003 (and for Windows XP x64). I haven't had a chance to play with it
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