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You can always learn more about Active Directory replication! Read on from the Ask the Directory Services Team blog - http://blogs.tech...

One of the best reasons for upgrading to R2, is the new account types for managing services. Changing user account passwords being used for ...

Ask the Directory Services Team has a good article on troubleshooting DFS links ( DFS Referrals and IPv6: Outta site! ) as well as a discus...

With Windows Server 2008 SP2 or SP1/RTM with hotfix KB961320 you can make administration of the DSRM password completely automatic. The app...

MIIS is a great engine for synchronization but the lack of a decent interface - for the administrator as well as for the end user - have mad...

I just found this MSDN article about optimizing your queries. Besides good advice on how to create optimal queries, you can also instruct A...

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So you have this 10-server test setup with multiple domains, multiple domain controllers, member servers and clients. It is running Virtual ...

John Howard wrote an article of how to do it from vbscript. I couldn't resist doing it with PowerShell - Get-VirtualServerFromAD.ps1 - p...

Well, simply look at the drink property in Active Directory. Yes, it really exists! Came across it from this blog . BTW: The answer is G...

The other day, one of the contributers to this blog unwillingly made a Denial-of-Service on our ISA server. It went on like this – “I wonder...

Just a quick note - I found a nice overview of the New Active Directory features in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) .

SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0 requires schema changes in Active Directory and if you have SAP installed with EP 5.0 SP5 Patch 3 hotfix 2 and hig...

Microsoft just released a new paper on this. When running Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server in larger environments, th...

My normal strategy for handling failed domain controllers is to re-built it from scratch. This is a simple and safe strategy - restores are ...

Finally – a pre Windows Server 2003 FRS update contains several fixes and an important new command argument to ntfrsutl called forcerepl.

Looking for information about File Replication Service (NTFRS) I found this interesting KB. In Windows Server 2003, administrators can chan...

Cool new tool from Microsoft – spotted at You Had Me At EHLO... ADModify is a tool that was (and is still) developed and maintaned out of o...

A quick overview of the tools, registry entries, Group Policy settings, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, and network ports...