The world is not as polite anymore as it was years ago. People are forgetting what was called “good behavior / manner”. And Powershell is entering the world and starting to monopolize in the world of scripting languages. I think Powershell should show some level of social responsibility. And today, I’m taking action to change it: I, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner, propose hereby that Powershell should be forced to show more social responsibility. Therefore I propose two actions: Any command executed should

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 is intended for servicing NTDS where there is a need of a stopped AD (such as in Directory Services Restore Mode, DSRM) but where is no need of a completely flushed Memory and stopped dependencies. So what you can do are things like offline defragmentation

I was just pointed to the blog of David Loder who’s pointing out that the Release Candidate of Exchange 2010 is changing the permissions enforced by AdminSDHolder to critical groups to allow Exchange Organizational Admins to change the group memberships of Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins, Domain Admins a.s.o. OK, one of Microsoft Program Managers already responded, and I do agree that this is not a released product and pre-release versions are there for finding those bugs. I’d just like to say:

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 the official blogs:  http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx The products will be available

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 Server Division Weblog: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/06/02/windows-server-2008-r2-rtm-and-general-availability.aspx Windows 7 Teamblog: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability

At TechEd USA in Los Angeles last week, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of Windows Business at Microsoft, made a comment which was funny but also sad: I’m a technologist, so I can’t tell you where the economy will be in 6 month. A bad message is – a economist can’t tell you either.

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 as containers and how he can take it off. Actually this took us some time to look into it. He had two forests – when he was targeting Active Directory-Users and –Computers against one forest, his contacts were displayed as containers (meaning there

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 for Windows Server at MS) have introduced this morning at TechEd in Los Angeles the availability for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before the holiday season, meaning that Ian’s kids will be able to get the server for christmas . I do love those

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 the technology) how to look at a snapshot / backup can help you recovering data from older states of your Active Directory. I've also spoken about this and demoed it in my "A Directory Services Geek's View on Active Directory Recovery in

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 once and they are unique. As we should know, there are five of those "Flexible Single Master Operations"-Masters (FSMOs) (however let's not get into the discussion why they are called "Flexible" - back in the NT5-beta-days (beta