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“speaking 2.0” at Microsoft TechEd today
I’m speaking today about “The Evolution of Active Directory Recovery” at TechEd 2012 US (SIA319, 1pm in Hall N310) . The session will also be streamed. I had a great idea, and I’m looking forward to see how it’s working. And I haven’t seen this before...

Posted Thu, Jun 14 2012 17:48 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

Preparing for TechEd Europe
TechEd Europe will be in Berlin next week, and I’m looking forward delivering three sessions there: SIA301-IS - Under the Hood: What Really Happens During Critical Active Directory Operations Wednesday Nov 10, 9:00 – 10:00 AM Thursday Nov...

Posted Thu, Nov 4 2010 17:40 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

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

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