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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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 the new dcpromo in Windows Server "Longhorn". I...
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 you've got? Here's an example: So apparently...