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Roaming Profile Compatibility - The Windows 7 to Windows 8 Challenge
[Editor's note: Everything Mark mentions for Windows 8 clients here is also true for Windows 8.1 clients. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 clients use the same (v3) profile version, so the 8.1 upgrade will...
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DFS Replication in Windows Server 2012 R2 and other goodies, now available on...
Over at the Filecab blog, AskDS alum and all-around nice guy Ned Pyle has posted the first of several blogs about new features coming your way in Windows Server 2012 R2. If you're a DFS administrator...
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MD5 Signature Hash Deprecation and Your Infrastructure
Hi everyone, David here with a quick announcement.Yesterday, MSRC announced a timeframe for deprecation of built-in support for certificates that use the MD5 signature hash. You can find more...
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Important Announcement: AD FS 2.0 and MS13-066
Update (8/19/13):We have republished MS13-066 with a corrected version of the hotfixes that contributed to this problem. If you had held off on installing the update, it should be safe to install on...
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Locked or not? Demystifying the UI behavior for account lockouts
Hello Everyone,This is Shijo from our team in Bangalore once again. Today I’d like to briefly discuss account lockouts, and some UI behaviors that can trip admins up when dealing with account...
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An update for ADMT, and a few other things too.
So, we’ve been quiet for a few months, which is extraordinarily embarrassing after I basically told everyone that we were going to not do that. The reality of what we do in support is that sometimes...
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Adding shortcuts on desktop using Group Policy Preferences in Windows 8 and...
Hi All!My name is Saurabh Koshta and I am with the Core Team at Microsoft. Currently I work in the client space so supporting all aspects of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is my primary role.We very often...
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Our UK Windows Directory Services Escalation Team is Hiring – Support...
Hi! Its Linda Taylor here again from the Directory Services Escalation team in the UK. In this post, I want to tell you – We are hiring in the UK!! Would you like to join the UK Escalation Team and...
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Options for Managing Go to Desktop or Start after Sign in in Windows 8.1
Hi, David here. Over the past year we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our customers about the pain of changing from older versions of Windows over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. While it’s a great OS...
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Managing the Store app pin to the Taskbar added in the Windows 8.1 Update
Warren here, posting with more news regarding the Windows 8.1 Update. Among the many features added by Windows 8.1 Update is that the Store icon will be pinned to the users taskbar when users first...
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An Update about the Windows 8.1 Update
Hi everyone, David here. Today over at the Springboard series blog we announced some important news that applies to anyone who has been trying to roll out the Windows 8.1 update in an enterprise...
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It turns out that weird things can happen when you mix Windows Server 2003...
UPDATE: The hotfix is now available for this issue! Get it at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2989971This hotfix applies to Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers and should prevent the specific...
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Hate to see you go, but it’s time to move on to greener pastures. A farewell...
Hi all, Jason here. Long time reader, first time blogger. AzMan is Microsoft’s tool to manage authorization to applications based on a user’s role. AzMan has been around since 2003 and has had a good...
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Remove Lingering Objects that cause AD Replication error 8606 and friends
Introducing the Lingering Object Liquidator Hi all, Justin Turner here ---it's been a while since my last update. The goal of this post is to discuss what causes lingering objects and show you how to...
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Understanding ATQ performance counters, yet another twist in the world of TLAs
Hello again, this is guest author Herbert from Germany. If you worked an Active Directory performance issue, you might have noticed a number of AD Performance counters for NTDS and “Directory Services”...
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DFSR: Limiting the Number of Imported Replicated Folders when using DB cloning
Hello! Warren here to talk about a very specific scenario involving the new DB cloning feature added to DFSR in Windows Server 2012 R2. The topic is how to limit or control which RFs you import on the...
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Migrating your Certification Authority Hashing Algorithm from SHA1 to SHA2
Hey all, Rob Greene here again. Well it’s been a very long while since I have written anything for the AskDS blog. I’ve been heads down supporting all the new cool technology from Microsoft.I wanted...
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A Treatise on Group Policy Troubleshooting–now with GPSVC Log Analysis!
Hi all, David Ani here from Romania. This guide outlines basic steps used to troubleshoot Group Policy application errors using the Group Policy Service Debug logs (gpsvc.log). A basic understanding of...
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Troubleshoot ADFS 2.0 with these new articles
Hi all, here's a quick public service announcement to highlight some recently published ADFS 2.0 troubleshooting guidance. We get a lot of questions about configuring and troubleshooting ADFS 2.0, so...
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Windows 10 Group Policy (.ADMX) Templates now available for download
Hi everyone, Ajay here. I wanted to let you all know that we have released the Windows 10 Group Policy (.ADMX) templates on our download center as an MSI installer package. These .ADMX templates are...
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Manage Developer Mode on Windows 10 using Group Policy
Hi All, We’ve had a few folks want to know how to disable Developer Mode using Group Policy, but still allow side-loaded apps to be installed. Here is a quick note how to do this. (A more AD-centric...
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SHA1 Key Migration to SHA256 for a two tier PKI hierarchy
Hello. Jim here again to take you through the migration steps for moving your two tier PKI hierarchy from SHA1 to SHA256. I will not be explaining the differences between the two or the supportability...
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“Administrative limit for this request was exceeded" Error from Active Directory
Hello, Ryan Ries here with my first AskDS post! I recently ran into an issue with a particular environment where Active Directory and UNIX systems were being integrated. Microsoft has several...
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Using Repadmin with ADLDS and Lingering objects
Hi! Linda Taylor here from the UK Directory Services escalation team. This time on ADLDS, Repadmin, lingering objects and even PowerShell…. The other day a colleague was trying to remove a lingering...
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Speaking in Ciphers and other Enigmatic tongues…update!
Hi! Jim Tierney here again to talk to you about Cryptographic Algorithms, SCHANNEL and other bits of wonderment. My original post on the topic has gone through a rewrite to bring you up to date on...
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