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As you know,documentation is imperative, and slapping a huge and complicated Visio on the wall of your office (to impress your boss) has it's advantages to... :) Take a look at: Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer Overview With the Active...
A post about the interoperability of these two systems has been published on the Exchange team blog. The highlights are: Exchange 2007 (RTM) can not be installed on Windows 2008. Exchange 2007 SP1 (when released) will be supported on Windows 2008. Exchange...
With the advent of Windows 2008 (Beta),and basically everyone getting their hands on a copy and trying to learn how to use it, the Windows 2008 Technical Library can be a great resource. The library describes what's new and provides step by step guides...
These two posters, originally published in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, provide a strong visual tool to aide in the understanding of various features and components of Windows Server 2008. One poster focuses exclusively on powerful new Active...
This tool (from Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) is basically ADSI Edit on steroids. It allows you to connect to your AD environment directly thus providing you a "raw" view of your directory and in turn the ability to change the directory...
A major yet not so known change. From 60 days we are going to 180 days on new Active Directory(SP1) implementations and upgrades that have slipstreamed copy. In other words your backups should be valid for 180 days and deleted objects are saved for 180...
ADModify is a tool that will enable an AD/Exchange admin to make bulk changes in user properties. One of the special treats of this tool is the fact that it provides a simple GUI for configuring the accepted MAPI level for clients. You can download the...
I happened to stumble upon this one by chance-and I do admit I am really happy since I am very familiar with the situation. It seems that a patch intended for the information store changes the behavior of permissions thus causing lose of functionality...
Ok, I know what you are thinking-is he serious?!?! Actually I am serious and as someone that has taught AD classes I have to say that GPO is the heart of AD. It is the most flexible tool to be used to harness the power of AD. On the other hand I have...
When you work at a multinational/multilingual company the OWA interface's language might become important. Currently (Exchange 2003) provides the language of the interface based on the settings configured on the IE used to access OWA. The problem...
Microsoft has released a tool we have been waiting for-a tool that enables SysAdmins to control conccurent logins to their AD environment. Based on the short time I have been exposed to this tool I can say that it looks cool but it has its limitations...
While verifying AD replication it may be useful to compare the directory information stored on different domain controllers. There is a toold that can compare the information and it is called DSASTAT.EXE. The tool can be found among the Windows Support...