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Using AD-Powershell to protect OUs from accidental deletion

If you use Active Directory-Users and –Computers from Windows Server 2008 or higher (also ships with the Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows Vista or Windows 7), or the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2 or Win7 RSAT newly created OUs are protected from accidental...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Wed, Nov 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server
djoin.exe not a Powershell command

I’ve heard from a speaker I respect the question whether Microsofts strategies are consequent because they are basing everything on Powershell, however the djoin.exe-command is not a Powershell command. Interesting one, but also very understandable if you think about it. Djoin.exe is created to provide...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Mon, Nov 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server
Tips - 4

A Quick Tip To Disable "Initial Configuration Tasks List" This article explains how you can disable the Initial Configuration Task List at logon. What All Ports Are Required By Domain Controllers And Client Computers? This article explains the key port requirement for Client computers and Domain...

Posted to Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Clustering, Scripting, MOM, SQL. by Nirmal Sharma on Tue, Nov 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Active Directory, AD Replication, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Tips
Tips - 3

Group Policy Offers New Functionality in Windows Server 2008 This article explains the improvements to the Group Policy in Windows Server 2008. Domain Controller Options Not Supported By RODC This article explains the DC Options which are not supported by a RODC. DS Auditing in Windows Server 2008 This...

Posted to Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Clustering, Scripting, MOM, SQL. by Nirmal Sharma on Tue, Nov 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Active Directory, AD Replication, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Tips
Tips - 2

A Quick Tip To Prevent Users From Accessing The Computer Tab This article explains a quick tip which you can use to prevent users from accessing the Computer Tab on My Computer property. A Quick Tip To Create A User Mode Process Dump File This article explains how you can use ADPlus.vbs to create a User...

Posted to Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Clustering, Scripting, MOM, SQL. by Nirmal Sharma on Tue, Nov 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Active Directory, AD Replication, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Tips
Clarifications of a stopped Active Directory

In Windows Server 2008 you are able to stop Active Directory-Domain Services using the services snap-in or by typing net stop ntds However, this is for servicing only and not a state where the DC is intended to be kept for a longer period. Stopping AD is intended for servicing NTDS where there is a need...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Tue, Sep 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server
Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7) availability

Hyper-Excited: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 will be finalized in the second half of July, which is when they will become available for Partners and MSDN a.s.o., and broadly available (Stores, on new PCs a.s.o.) at the End of October!!! Windows Server Division Weblog: http://blogs.technet.com...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Wed, Jun 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server
Contacts displayed as containers

At TechEd I was staffing the Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory-Booth. We had a lot of interesting questions, scenarios and discussions there. One interesting issue was a customer who asked us why his contacts in Active Directory are being displayed as containers and how he can take it off. Actually...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Sun, May 17 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server, TechEd
Tip - A Quick Tip to designate a domain controller for client authentications.

This article explains the use of SRV priority. This applies to Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Read more here... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/ActiveDirectory/AQuickTiptodesignateadomaincontrollerforclientauthentications.html

Posted to Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Clustering, Scripting, MOM, SQL. by Nirmal Sharma on Mon, Aug 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Active Directory, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Tips
Rumors about AD-Snapshots

I've recently heard /read some rumors about AD-Snapshots. As I wrote before in Timetraveling Active Directory the new feature of Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 - AD-Snapshots or "the Database Mounting Tool" (how Microsoft calls the technology) how to look at a snapshot / backup...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Mon, Aug 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server, TechEd
How many Infrastructure Masters do you have?

There are certain roles in Active Directory - which is a multi-master directory (meaning that every DC can write if he's member of the domain) - which need a "single-master", someone who takes care that certain things are only performed once and they are unique. As we should know, there...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Thu, Jul 31 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Active Directory, Windows Server
IT-Administrator in Heidelberg

I'm writing for the German magazine IT-Administrator . Recently they've published an series about Windows Server 2008 and another about Active Directory-Recovery (in Windows Server 2008), and in August they'll publish an article about Hyper-V from me. Recently they've asked me if I could...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Wed, Jul 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server
ADMT 3.1 released and now available for download

The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1 (ADMT v3.1) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.1 to migrate users, groups, and computers between...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Thu, Jul 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Active Directory, Windows Server
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
HEROS happen {here}

For the past three days I was at the Microsoft Launch Event Germany , the first and as we were told biggest (by the number of attendees) Launch for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I did three presentations: Active Directory-Domänendienste in Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Thu, Feb 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server
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
I'm on the Edge [;)]

Last week I was at TechEd:IT-Forum in Barcelona. I'll follow up with more details later. However the guys from edge.technet.com have done an interview with me, which went online last night. I was speaking about my sessions, AD Restore in Windows Server 2008 and Schema Updates. You can find it currently...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Wed, Nov 21 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server, TechEd
More speaking engagements

While we are in preperation for TechEd:IT-Forum which will be in Barcelona in November, there are more speaking engagements already scheduled: October 24th and 25th: The IT-Administrator asked me to speak about what's new in DNS and Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 at the German Tradeshow...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Sat, Oct 6 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Personal, Communities, Active Directory, 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
Timetraveling Active Directory

When I posted about the Fine Grained Password Policies (aka Password Settings Objects) in the Active Directory of Windows Server "Longhorn" I've also got permissions to blog about a very exciting new feature in Longhorn - the possibility to create and access Active Directory "Snapshots"...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on Wed, May 9 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Stuff, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server

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