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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...

Posted Sun, May 17 2009 10:58 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 availability announced for the holiday season
I do have to say that I’m super-excited – or as Mark Russinovich tries to introduce the term … “Hyper-Excited” (Mark: would this be Hyper-E? – just kidding). Bill Veghte (Sr. Vice President, Windows Business, Microsoft) and Ian McDonald (General Manager...

Posted Mon, May 11 2009 21:05 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Mon, Aug 4 2008 17:17 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Mon, Jun 16 2008 19:08 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

Back to live
I haven't blogged in a while. A long while. I've been through major changes in my live. Readjusting. Reloading. Sometimes you need to reevaluate things, in technology and in live. Being stable doesn't equal avoiding changes. I've recently...

Posted Tue, May 13 2008 23:53 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 2 comment(s)

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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...

Posted Tue, Feb 5 2008 8:12 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Thu, Nov 22 2007 0:23 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Sat, Oct 6 2007 23:30 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

What's up?
OK - it's been a while since I last posted. Many things were going on. The last post was in the Directory Experts Conference-Timeframe. Wow - a lot was going on. I'll write later some thoughts about DEC, even if others have covered it well (like...

Posted Wed, Jun 6 2007 2:38 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Mon, Jan 22 2007 1:20 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

I'm still alive (1)
OK - I haven't written a post in quite a long time. The last one was before I went to TechEd EU in Barcelona. So what happened? I decided that I've deserved some vacation, so I went with my wife and a "close friends couple" to Hurghada, Egypt to do some...

Posted Sun, Jan 21 2007 23:58 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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