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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 | 7 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

BGInfo in Vista and Longhorn
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...

Posted Wed, Jan 24 2007 0:05 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 3 comment(s)

I'm still alive (2)
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...

Posted Mon, Jan 22 2007 22:40 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | with no comments

DNS Conditional Forwarders - AD integrated
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...

Posted Sat, Sep 30 2006 20:49 by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner | 1 comment(s)

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