• Lingering Objects cleanup

    Recently I have been working with a premier customer in South Africa to cleanup their forest from lingering objects. It is a complex environment with 15 domains,30+ sites and 130+ DCs where power failures and network related issues frequently disrupt...
  • How to prevent the creation of GPOs from outside AGPM (Advanced Group Policy Management)

    During my interactions with Premier Microsoft customers I have found out that the main reason for not using AGPM (Advanced Group Policy Management) in order to enforce change control procedures on Group Policy management is the lack of information on...
  • Fine Grained Password Policies GUI in Windows Server 2012 ADAC

    Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Have you ever used Fine Grained Password Policies? This feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 allows you to override password policy set at the domain level. ...
  • AD recycle bin feature and Windows Server 2012 GUI

    Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. The AD recycle bin feature has been released on Windows Server 2008 R2 without a graphical user interface, which made it's deployment and usability (I mean recovering...
  • How to clone a virtual Domain Controller

    Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. On one of my previous posts I wrote about vDC cloning which is my preferred feature in Windows Server 2012 " http://blogs.technet.com/b/reference_point/archive/2012/12...