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Windows 8 RTM Windows Server 2012 RTM IT Pros Store Build Dates Prizes - Ned "terse" Pyle
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Windows PowerShell remoting and delegating user credentials
Hey all Rob Greene here again. Yeah, I know, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything for you good people of the Internet. I recently had an interesting issue with the Active Directory Web...
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Managing RID Issuance in Windows Server 2012
Hi all, Ned here again to talk further about managing your RID pool. By default, a domain has capacity for roughly one billion security principals, such as users, security groups, managed service...
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RSA Key Blocking is Here!
Hello everyone. Jonathan here again with another Public Service Announcement post. Today, Microsoft has published a new Security Advisory: Microsoft Security Advisory (2661254): Update For Minimum...
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Detaining Docs with DAC
Hey all, Ned here again with a quick advert: Robert Deluca from our Partner and Customer team just published a blog post on Dynamic Access Control. He walks through the configuration of “document...
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AD Replication Status Tool is Live
Hey all, Ned here with some new troubleshooting tool love, courtesy of the ADREPLSTATUS team at Microsoft. I’ll let them do the talking: The Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) is...
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Monthly Mail Sack: Yes, I Finally Admit It Edition
Heya folks, Ned here again. Rather than continue the lie that this series comes out every Friday like it once did, I am taking the corporate approach and rebranding the mail sack. Maybe we’ll have the...
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One of us: What it was like to interview for a support role at Microsoft
Hello, Kim here again. We get many questions about what to expect when interviewing at Microsoft. I’m coming up on my two year anniversary at Microsoft and I thought I would share my experience in the...
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Updated Group Policy Search service
Mike here with an important service announcement. In June of 2010, guest poster Kapil Mehra introduced the Group Policy Search service. The Group Policy Search (GPS) service is a web application...
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Windows Server 2012 GA
Hey folks, Ned here again to tell you what you probably already know: Windows Server 2012 is now generally available: Understand the vision Visit the launch page and learn what’s new Download the...
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Let the Blogging begin…
Hello AskDS Readers. Mike here again. If you notice, Ned posted one of our first Windows Server 2012 RTM blogs a while back (Managing RID Issuance in Windows Server 2012). Yes friends, the gag order...
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MaxTokenSize and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
Hello AskDS Populous, Mike here and I want to share with you some of the excellent enhancements we accomplished in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 around MaxTokenSize. Let’s review MaxTokenSize and...
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Monthly Mail Sack: I Hope Your Data Plan is Paid Up Edition
Hi all, Ned here again with that thing we call love. Blog! I mean blog. I have a ton to talk about now that I have moved to the monthly format, and I recommend you switch to WIFI if you’re on your...
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Windows Server 2012 Shell game
Here's the scenario, you just downloaded the RTM ISO for Windows Server 2012 using your handy, dandy, "wondermus" Microsoft TechNet subscription. Using Hyper-V, you create a new virtual machine, mount...
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AD FS 2.0 RelayState
Hi guys, Joji Oshima here again with some great news! AD FS 2.0 Rollup 2 adds the capability to send RelayState when using IDP initiated sign on. I imagine some people are ecstatic to hear this while...
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So long and thanks for all the fish
My time is up. It’s been eight years since a friend suggested I join him on a contract at Microsoft Support (thanks Pete). Eight years since I sat sweating in an interview with Steve Taylor, trying...
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Digging a little deeper into Windows 8 Primary Computer
[This is a ghost of Ned past article – Editor] Hi folks, Ned here again to talk more about the Primary Computer feature introduced in Windows 8. Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed this lonely beta...
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....And knowing is half the battle!
Jonathan here. Chuck Timon over on the AskCore blog has a new post that you folks testing with Windows Server 2012 should know about. If you're playing around with Hyper-V, do yourself a favor and have...
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ADAMSync 101
Hi Everyone, Kim Nichols here again, and this time I have an introduction to ADAMSync. I take a lot of cases on ADAM and AD LDS and have seen a number of problems arise from less than optimally...
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Revenge of Y2K and Other News
Hello sports fans!So this has been a bit of a hectic time for us, as I'm sure you can imagine. Here's just some of the things that have been going on around here.Last week, thanks to a failure on the...
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