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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...

Posted Tue, Sep 15 2009 15:18 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 2 comment(s)

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are finished
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 were RTMd yesterday (June 22nd). Products are finished now, the code won’t be changed and the preparations for making them available via Download as well as producing the DVDs has started. Read the announcements on...

Posted Thu, Jul 23 2009 10:48 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Wed, Jun 3 2009 10:59 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

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...

Posted Thu, Jul 31 2008 14:09 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Wed, Jul 16 2008 18:14 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

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...

Posted Thu, Feb 21 2008 15:08 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

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

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...

Posted Sat, Aug 25 2007 18:47 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

VMRCPlus out of the secret storage
Finally VMRCPlus is available to the public. I was bugging MS for years if they can't release it, and finally it's available. VMRCPlus is a frontend for the users of Virtual Server, which provides a full console application instead of having VMRC...

Posted Tue, Jul 3 2007 8:33 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

The baptism of a new Server: Windows Server 2008
Windows Server "Longhorn" finally got his name - as many would be surprise it will be "Windows Server 2008". Microsoft did name his products in the past to the Fiscal Year they released the product - since their "Fiscal New Years...

Posted Wed, May 16 2007 22:07 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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...

Posted Wed, May 9 2007 20:53 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 6 comment(s)

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...

Posted Wed, Mar 21 2007 2:41 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

dcpromo in Windows Server "Longhorn"
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...

Posted Wed, Mar 21 2007 1:54 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

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