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Exchange 2010 RC touches AdminSDHolder

I was just pointed to the blog of David Loder who’s pointing out that the Release Candidate of Exchange 2010 is changing the permissions enforced by AdminSDHolder to critical groups to allow Exchange Organizational Admins to change the group memberships of Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins, Domain Admins...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Wed, Sep 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Security
Why Clients don't (need to) understand the concept of Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC)

Hi There, just back from TechEd, it's time for some technical posts. So one of the questions I got very often is what you need in your infrastructure to deploy read-only Domain Controllers. Along with that question goes what Client-Version of the Operating System is needed that they are able to authenticate...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Mon, Jun 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Security, Windows Server, TechEd
Congrats Microsoft: Windows Server 2008 is RTM

I cannot state it any better: the best Windows Server release ever has been released to manufacturing - Windows Server 2008 is finished. Windows Server 2008 is very stable and very well-done for production use. As I wrote before we at Computacenter are using it since October 2007 in Production, and I...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Tue, Feb 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Security, Windows Server, TechEd
Security-Boundary: Forest vs. Domain

About time for a somewhat technical post: In some Newsgroup we recently discussed if it's considered Best-Practice to deploy a lot of single-domain forests as opposed to a single multi-domain forest. The major reason herefore was that in the early Windows 2000 days, somebody said that the domain...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Sat, Aug 25 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Security, Windows Server
Windows Server "Longhorn" - Active Directory Attribute Editor and LDP

Another Article of Jorge mentions the new "Attribute Editor" in Active Directory-Users and -Computers (ADUC) and Active Directory-Sites and -Settings (ADSS). Basically you have the Property-Page of ADSIEdit now in ADUC and ADSS and you are able to configure all attributes of the selected Object in a...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Tue, Mar 20 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Security, Windows Server
BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer for Active Directory Users and Computers tool

A tool for viewing Bitlocker recovery passwords is now available: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928202 . It is supported when installed on Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003.

Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Mon, Jan 22 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Active Directory
TechEd EU 2006 in Barcelona

So ... TechEd was just great - I can not describe it in other words. As I wrote in a prior post I had some sessions to take care of at TechEd. So after we arrived in Barcelona we first had a dinner with the MCT-Community which we really enjoyed. There are so many MCTs out there who are so dedicated to...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Sun, Jan 21 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Security, TechEd
Guide for Configuring AD to Back up BitLocker and TPM Recovery Information

The above guide is finally available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3a207915-dfc3-4579-90cd-86ac666f61d4&displaylang=en . Go and get it! The package contains: 48 page excellent guide LDIF file for extending Windows Server 2003 SP1/R2 schema Script for modifying ACLs for...

Posted to Learning to Fly - Mika's Blog by mika on Fri, Jan 12 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Active Directory
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: Security, Active Directory
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: Server, General Computing, Security, Active Directory
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: Security, Active Directory

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