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How Not to Interview
Our excellent colleague Keith Combs found this movie created by Microsoft Learning. It is both hilarious and sometimes frighteningly true. Really… To avoid being in a movie yourself: Get trained Get...
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No more yellow banner (and the gallery of things that are not work)
Well, my wife complained one too many times about the old blog image. Now it’s a nice soothing blue with a more worldwide bend, plus some updated “artwork” courtesy of Visio and MS Paint (sorry for...
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New Directory Services Content 8/22-8/28
KB Articles There are several articles below that are related to support of Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces and Discontiguous Namespaces. These will soon be linked to the DNS Namespace...
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The Case of the Enormous CA Database
Hello, faithful readers! Jonathan here again. Today I want to talk a little about Certification Authority monitoring and maintenance. This topic was brought to my attention by a recent case that I had...
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Microsoft’s Support Statement Around Replicated User Profile Data
[Note from Ned: this article was created and vetted by the Microsoft development teams for DFS Replication, DFS Namespaces, Offline Files, Folder Redirection, Roaming User Profiles, and Home Folders....
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Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 1: Planning)
Hello folks, Ned here again to kick off a new five-part series on DFSR. With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, the warming of economies, and the timing of hardware leases, we have started seeing...
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Multi-NIC File Server Dissection
Ned here. Our friend and colleague Jose Barreto from the File Server development team has posted a very interesting article around multiple NIC usage on Win2008/R2 file servers. Here's the intro: When...
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Top Solutions RSS feeds for Windows Server and Client now available
Ned here again. The MS Product Quality and Online team has released three new RSS feeds for Windows Server, Windows 7 Client, and Windows 7 IT Pro to get you to the "high impact issues" happening right...
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Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 2: Pre-seeding)
Ned here again. Previously I discussed options for performing a hardware or OS replacement within an existing DFSR Replication Group. As part of that process you may end up seeding a new server’s disk...
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Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 3: N+1 Method)
Hello readers, Ned here again. In the previous two blog posts I discussed planning for DFSR server replacements and how to ensure you are properly pre-seeding data. Now I will show how to replace...
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Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 4: Disk Swap)
Hello folks, Ned here again. Previously I covered how to use an N+1 server placement method to migrate an existing DFSR environment to new hardware or operating system. Now I will show you how to...
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Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS (Part 5: Reinstall and Upgrade)
Hello folks, Ned here again. Previously I explained how swapping out existing storage can be a method to migrate an existing DFSR environment to new hardware or operating system. Now in this final...
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Series Wrap-up and Downloads - Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS
Hey all, Ned here again. A few of you asked if the series around DFSR server replacements would have a “portable” version. I banged those up in DOCX, XPS, and PDF formats. Pick your poison below....
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New Directory Services Content 9/5-9/11
Only one new KB article of interest this week: 2157973 The Security event that has Event ID 4625 does not contain the user account name on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008,...
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Friday Mail Sack: Barbados Edition
Hello world, Ned here again. I’m back to write this week’s mail sack – just in time to be gone for the next two weeks on vacation and work travel. In the meantime Jonathan and Scott will be running the...
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Hear hear
Kip Ng gives the sometimes unpopular but ultimately best advice: IT Operations: The Reasons Why You Don’t Want To Be Unique OpsVault is a newish blog by PFE’s talking about operational best practices;...
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New ADFS Content on TechNet Wiki
Adam Conkle has published some great troubleshooting, tips and tricks and how to articles on TechNet that should help you in evaluating and implementing Active Directory Federation Services. AD FS -...
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New Directory Services related content 9/12–9/18
KB Articles Article ID Title 2021766 Windows Server 2008 R2 Outbound trusts with Windows NT 4.0 domains do not validate or function correctly 2002584 Unable to select DNS Server role when adding a...
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AD LDS Schema Files Demystified
Hi, Russell here. When installing Active Directory Lightweight Domain Services (AD LDS) instances, it is quite possible to paint oneself into a corner rather quickly. That’s because LDS comes with...
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New Directory Services Content 9/19-9/25
Hi everyone. We have a few new KB articles that came out last week, and a few blog posts of interest. KB Articles Article ID Title 2384558 Inheritance of ownership in Group Policy Management Console...
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