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AD FS 2.0 and AD FS 1.x Interoperability
Hi, it’s Adam Conkle again. I am excited about our recent release of AD FS 2.0 on May 5. I wanted to post a blog about AD FS 2.0 and AD FS 1.x interoperability as soon as possible since I think it will...
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Enabling CEP and CES for enrolling non-domain joined computers for certificates
Hey all, Rob here again. I thought I would expand upon my last blog describing Certificate Enrollment Web Services by covering some of the different configurations that are possible. As a refresher,...
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FRS to DFSR Migration Tool Released
Heya, Ned here again. I am out of my barrel and on the road again this week, coming to you live from Las Colinas Texas. As you may have noticed, I recently wrote a TechNet Whitepaper on how to migrate...
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Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part III Certificate Templates
Chris here again. In this segment I will be covering setting up certificate templates on the newly created CA hierarchy. Enterprise Certification Authorities (CAs), as well as clients, utilize what are...
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New Directory Services Content 5/16-5/22
KB 983254 The first data point that is in a Performance Monitor log .csv file may be a larger number than expected in a Windows Server 2003-based domain Blogs File Services management pack has been...
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One Stop Shop for Windows Time Information
Hi folks, Ned here again. After much noodling and work here with our TechNet writer team, there is a new, consolidated set of info for Windows Time (w32time) in all of our operating systems, to include...
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New Directory Services Content 5/23-5/29
KB 983456 SMTP configuration options are reset in Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, after you install the MS10-024 update (976323) 981482 In Windows Server...
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Friday Mail Sack: Walking Tall Edition
Hello folks, Ned here again. After a week in Las Colinas Texas, the blog migration, and Jonathan’s attempted coup, we are still standing. Since I’m sure your whole day has been designed around this...
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Son of SPA: AD Data Collector Sets in Win2008 and beyond
Hello, David Everett here again. This time I’m going to cover configuration and management of Active Directory Diagnostics Data Collector Sets. Data Collector Sets are the next generation of a utility...
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How to Virtualize Active Directory Domain Controllers (Part 1)
Hello Everyone, This is Shravan from the Active Directory team and Jason from the System Center VMM team here at Microsoft. We will be discussing a scenario that comes up often: how to migrate active...
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Friday Mail Sack: Shut Up Laura Edition
Hello again folks, Ned here for another grab bag of questions we’ve gotten this week. This late posting thing is turning into a bad habit, but I’ve been an epileptic octopus here this week with all the...
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How to Virtualize Active Directory Domain Controllers (Part 2)
Hello everyone, this is Shravan from the Active Directory team and Jason from the System Center VMM team here at Microsoft. This is part 2 of the blog series where we discuss how to migrate Active...
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Friday Mail Sack: Ride ‘Em Cowboy Edition
Howdy partners. This week we talk event logs, auditing, NTLM “fallback”, file server monitoring, and SCOM 2007 management pack dissection. It was a fairly quiet week for questions since everyone is off...
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ADMT 3.2 released
Come and get it. Especially you commenters that liked to swear at me anonymously :-). Besides now supporting Windows Server 2008 R2 and fixing some bugs, this version now supports Managed Service...
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We are hiring
We are hiring again (in your face, 2008 economy!) and if you think you have what it takes to do my job, come show me: Support Escalation Engineer, Directory...
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Announcing the Group Policy Search service
Hello, Kapil here. I am a Product Quality PM for Windows here in Texas [i.e. someone who falls asleep cuddling his copy of Excel - Ned]. Finding a group policy when starting at the "is there even a...
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Friday Mail Sack: 1970’s Conversion Van Edition
Hello folks, Ned here again with another ridiculously overdue Friday Mail Sack. This week we talk about patching, admin rights, Kerberos, hiring, ADMT, and PKI. Next week we talk about… nothing. I will...
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Reminder: Windows 2000 Support ends July 13 (and other lifecycle stuff for...
Ned here again. If you’ve been under a rock for the past year, here it is one more time: Windows 2000 support ends on July 13, 2010 That is just a week from now. For more info on how to upgrade,...
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ADMT 3.2: Common Installation Issues
Hello folks, Ned here again. ADMT 3.2 was released a few weeks ago and we have a decent understanding of common installation issues that you might run into. Hopefully this helps you unblock or prevents...
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Migrating Vista and Windows 7 profiles with ADMT 3.2
Ned here again with another ADMT post – this one’s a quickie. V2 profiles were introduced with Windows Vista to allow isolation between XP and newer operating systems. If you haven’t done so already,...
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