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 using it since October 2007 in Production, and I...
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 Windows 2000 days, somebody said that the domain...
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 all attributes of the selected Object in a...
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 are so many MCTs out there who are so dedicated to...
The above guide is finally available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3a207915-dfc3-4579-90cd-86ac666f61d4&displaylang=en . Go and get it! The package contains: 48 page excellent guide LDIF file for extending Windows Server 2003 SP1/R2 schema Script for modifying ACLs for...
A relaxing summer vacation is over. I managed to stay away from computers for most of the three weeks’ period J Prior to that I participated my first TechEd in Amsterdam and enjoyed it tremendously. Lot ’s of interesting stuff and I also met a lot of nice people. My special thanks go to Ronald...
Microsoft has released a tool we have been waiting for-a tool that enables SysAdmins to control conccurent logins to their AD environment. Based on the short time I have been exposed to this tool I can say that it looks cool but it has its limitations. The download can be found at: http://download.microsoft...
What a hectic month February was! It started with some Windows Server 2003 & Active Directory training. In between I had an opportunity to fly over to UK to "cure" one Active Directory. And then towards the end of month I dug deep into Group Policy. Simultaneously, I was trying my best to be active...
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 Operating System is needed that they are able to authenticate...
A tool for viewing Bitlocker recovery passwords is now available: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928202 . It is supported when installed on Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003.