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  • Where are my FSMO roles?

    I have seen so many Active Directory Admins use so many methods to find out who and where their FSMO role holders are. Some will use the old fashion way of going through the AD tools and viewing the roles there. Others that have experience scripting have written some elaborate script on how to view these...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Wed, Aug 16 2006
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  • How to authenticate against Active Directory from Cisco IOS

    One of the things I’ve been spending a portion of my time focusing on for the past ten months is the networking side of the house, and more specifically Cisco. I’ve had the pleasure of working with a client who is a Microsoft shop to the max. We made...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Fri, Jul 21 2006
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  • Free e-learning - Removing a DC from Active Directory

    I just published another Rewind session entitled " Removing a DC from Active Directory ". This session along with the other I created are free for anyone to use to help learn how to perform tasks within Windows. If anyone else wants to help build a library of free task based online training let me know...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Tue, Jul 18 2006
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  • Dissecting the Active Directory Infrastructure Master Role

    Dean Wells has a very interesting and in-depth look at this FSMO role. This will actually be an 8 part series that looks into this DC role. Teaching AD for years this was always a mystery to students on what this role really did. For those that love the nitty gritty details this is what you have been...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Thu, Jul 6 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • My TechEd top 4 & Network Monitor 3

    I'm sitting on the last stint on the TLC at TechEd 2006. There have been quite a number of people who found this area and us technical experts here Thanks everyone for coming! Over these five days, the most common questions and some additional info for myself were: 1) Group Policy processing problems...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Fri, Jun 16 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Restoring Active Directory

    Here are a few great articles that discuss how to restore Active Directory. This is something you want to practice and document in your format so that when and I mean WHEN it happens you are prepared. Windows Server 2003 Performing a Nonauthoritative Restore of a Domain Controller Performing an Authoritative...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Wed, May 17 2006
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  • Gotcha with changing the Schema Master

    Changing FSMO roles isn't that difficult. In fact you can see a great video that I create on it right here . The one that seems to get everyone is the Schema Master. The reason being is because when you open the Schema snap-in it always opens it connected to the Schema Master...regardless of what machine...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Mon, Apr 24 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Change That Schema Safely!!!

    Whenever a product requires extending the schema great caution must be taken. If something goes wrong during this process you can have long last problems. Below are some guidelines that I like to follow when going through such a process. Needless to say you really should have at least two if not three...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Tue, Apr 11 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • TombstoneLifetime 2003 SP1

    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 days... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q216993...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Mar 4 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • ADModify- Making bulk changes in style

    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 tool at: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Mar 4 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: , ,

  • Blackberry and Goodlink may be affected by Exchange store patch

    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 of the aforementioned services. For additional information...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Feb 18 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • GPO-Curse or Blessing?

    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 seen it become a curse when it is overused or used...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Mon, Jan 30 2006
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  • Setting the language of the OWA interface

    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 is that at times your users might be logging on to...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Jan 28 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Kiss me, I'm secure!

    This could also be "How to confuse and confound yourself in the name of security." I am now working on an automated security package that lets users deploy XP Pro and Server 2003 in a standardized baseline. The premise is to: Patch the system (up to date of package release) Apply local security templates...
    Posted to How I learned to love DNS by james on Thu, Oct 27 2005
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  • WS03 User based auditing & simple logon script to connect printers

    A relaxing summer vacation is over. I managed to stay away from computers for most of the three weeks’ period J Prior to that I participated my first TechEd in Amsterdam and enjoyed it tremendously. Lot ’s of interesting stuff and I also met a lot of nice people. My special thanks go to Ronald...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Wed, Aug 3 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • LimitLogin v1.0

    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. The download can be found at: http://download.microsoft...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Tue, Mar 15 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: , , ,

  • Hectic February is well over

    What a hectic month February was! It started with some Windows Server 2003 & Active Directory training. In between I had an opportunity to fly over to UK to "cure" one Active Directory. And then towards the end of month I dug deep into Group Policy. Simultaneously, I was trying my best to be active...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Sat, Mar 5 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Do you use reverse lookup zones?

    By default, Active Directory does not require the use of reverse lookup zones to validate clients. The primary function of AD DNS is to permit the lookup of clients, services, and the all-valuable DC GUIDs for inter-DC communication. Spiffy. However, it appears that not everybody likes this. Now, I will...
    Posted to How I learned to love DNS by james on Sat, Mar 5 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Reprint of the book

    We just received a note from our publisher stating that the 2nd Edition of our book "Inside Active Directory" is going to reprint :) Based on this and earlier information, it looks like Amazon rank isn't the full truth... BTW, you can read the third chapter "Managing Active Directory OUs, Users, and...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Sat, Jan 29 2005
    Filed under: Filed under:

  • Comparing directory (AD) information between DCs

    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 Tools. For additional information take a look at...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Fri, Jan 7 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Where are my FSMO roles?

    I have seen so many Active Directory Admins use so many methods to find out who and where their FSMO role holders are. Some will use the old fashion way of going through the AD tools and viewing the roles there. Others that have experience scripting have written some elaborate script on how to view these...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Wed, Aug 16 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • How to authenticate against Active Directory from Cisco IOS

    One of the things I’ve been spending a portion of my time focusing on for the past ten months is the networking side of the house, and more specifically Cisco. I’ve had the pleasure of working with a client who is a Microsoft shop to the max. We made...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Fri, Jul 21 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: , ,

  • Free e-learning - Removing a DC from Active Directory

    I just published another Rewind session entitled " Removing a DC from Active Directory ". This session along with the other I created are free for anyone to use to help learn how to perform tasks within Windows. If anyone else wants to help build a library of free task based online training let me know...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Tue, Jul 18 2006
    Filed under: Filed under:

  • Dissecting the Active Directory Infrastructure Master Role

    Dean Wells has a very interesting and in-depth look at this FSMO role. This will actually be an 8 part series that looks into this DC role. Teaching AD for years this was always a mystery to students on what this role really did. For those that love the nitty gritty details this is what you have been...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Thu, Jul 6 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • My TechEd top 4 & Network Monitor 3

    I'm sitting on the last stint on the TLC at TechEd 2006. There have been quite a number of people who found this area and us technical experts here Thanks everyone for coming! Over these five days, the most common questions and some additional info for myself were: 1) Group Policy processing problems...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Fri, Jun 16 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Restoring Active Directory

    Here are a few great articles that discuss how to restore Active Directory. This is something you want to practice and document in your format so that when and I mean WHEN it happens you are prepared. Windows Server 2003 Performing a Nonauthoritative Restore of a Domain Controller Performing an Authoritative...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Wed, May 17 2006
    Filed under: Filed under:

  • Gotcha with changing the Schema Master

    Changing FSMO roles isn't that difficult. In fact you can see a great video that I create on it right here . The one that seems to get everyone is the Schema Master. The reason being is because when you open the Schema snap-in it always opens it connected to the Schema Master...regardless of what machine...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Mon, Apr 24 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Change That Schema Safely!!!

    Whenever a product requires extending the schema great caution must be taken. If something goes wrong during this process you can have long last problems. Below are some guidelines that I like to follow when going through such a process. Needless to say you really should have at least two if not three...
    Posted to The Life of Brian by BrianM on Tue, Apr 11 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • TombstoneLifetime 2003 SP1

    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 days... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q216993...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Mar 4 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • ADModify- Making bulk changes in style

    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 tool at: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Mar 4 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: , ,

  • Blackberry and Goodlink may be affected by Exchange store patch

    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 of the aforementioned services. For additional information...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Feb 18 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • GPO-Curse or Blessing?

    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 seen it become a curse when it is overused or used...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Mon, Jan 30 2006
    Filed under: Filed under:

  • Setting the language of the OWA interface

    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 is that at times your users might be logging on to...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Sat, Jan 28 2006
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Kiss me, I'm secure!

    This could also be "How to confuse and confound yourself in the name of security." I am now working on an automated security package that lets users deploy XP Pro and Server 2003 in a standardized baseline. The premise is to: Patch the system (up to date of package release) Apply local security templates...
    Posted to How I learned to love DNS by james on Thu, Oct 27 2005
    Filed under: Filed under:

  • WS03 User based auditing & simple logon script to connect printers

    A relaxing summer vacation is over. I managed to stay away from computers for most of the three weeks’ period J Prior to that I participated my first TechEd in Amsterdam and enjoyed it tremendously. Lot ’s of interesting stuff and I also met a lot of nice people. My special thanks go to Ronald...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Wed, Aug 3 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • LimitLogin v1.0

    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. The download can be found at: http://download.microsoft...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Tue, Mar 15 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: , , ,

  • Hectic February is well over

    What a hectic month February was! It started with some Windows Server 2003 & Active Directory training. In between I had an opportunity to fly over to UK to "cure" one Active Directory. And then towards the end of month I dug deep into Group Policy. Simultaneously, I was trying my best to be active...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Sat, Mar 5 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Do you use reverse lookup zones?

    By default, Active Directory does not require the use of reverse lookup zones to validate clients. The primary function of AD DNS is to permit the lookup of clients, services, and the all-valuable DC GUIDs for inter-DC communication. Spiffy. However, it appears that not everybody likes this. Now, I will...
    Posted to How I learned to love DNS by james on Sat, Mar 5 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,

  • Reprint of the book

    We just received a note from our publisher stating that the 2nd Edition of our book "Inside Active Directory" is going to reprint :) Based on this and earlier information, it looks like Amazon rank isn't the full truth... BTW, you can read the third chapter "Managing Active Directory OUs, Users, and...
    Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Sat, Jan 29 2005
    Filed under: Filed under:

  • Comparing directory (AD) information between DCs

    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 Tools. For additional information take a look at...
    Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Fri, Jan 7 2005
    Filed under: Filed under: ,
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