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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jorge's Quest for Knowlege is currently covering a lot about the next Windows Server "Longhorn" which is due later this year. In his Post Windows Server Longhorn - Installing, Removing and Upgrading to AD he is covering a lot of the options you get with...
Did you try to use Sysinternals (now Microsoft) BGInfo on Windows Vista or Windows Server Codenamed "Longhorn"? Do you also prefer to see your network-settings such as IP-Adress and DNS-Server on the Background-Screen of BGInfo? So did you like the picture...
So after getting back from Barcelona I had a lot of work to make sure I'll be able to take some vacation during X-Mas. Worked like crazy. Also I had to finish an article, which was published in January in the IT-Administrator . I covered Security-Basics...
Ward of the Windows Server Devision Weblog wrote earlier this summer about a "new feature" in Windows Server Codename "Longhorn", the possible integration of Conditional Forwarders in Active Directory . I've posted an comment that this is already available...