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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-Domänendienste in Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 02-21-2008
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server

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 using it since October 2007 in Production, and I...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 02-05-2008
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Security, Windows Server, TechEd

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 2008 and Schema Updates. You can find it currently...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 11-22-2007
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server, TechEd

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 to connect to the screen plus the Webinterface...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 07-03-2007
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Communities, Windows Server

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 Day" is in the middle of the year and the...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 05-16-2007
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Communities, Windows Server

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 to create and access Active Directory "Snapshots"...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 05-09-2007
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server

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, Delegation and implementing Rolebased Administration...

Posted to Directory Services/Active Directory (Weblog) by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on 01-22-2007
Filed under: Technical Stuff, Personal, Communities, Active Directory, Windows Server