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Friday Mail Sack: Cluedo Edition
Hello there folks. I’ve been out of pocket for a few weeks and I am moving to a new role here, plus Scott and Jonathan are busy as #$%#^& too, so that all adds up to the blog suffering a bit and...
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Get-DFSRBacklog PowerShell Script Available
Hi folks. Our buddy Steve Grinker has posted an excellent sample PowerShell script for retrieving DFSR backlogs over the MS Code Gallery site: Get-DFSRBacklog...
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RESTOREDFSR.VBS Version 3 now available
Hello folks. The infamous restoredfsr.vbs has now been rewritten (thanks for the prodding MLatCC) and it fixes some bad design limits of the older versions that were caused by time constraints and...
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Two more positions opened
If you live in the US and want to come work with us here in Directory Services support, we have opened two more positions:...
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New Directory Services Content 10/10–10/16
Hi folks – sorry for not posting any new content the last few weeks. We have not had any public KBs that were related, and now we have a few to make up for the missing weeks. Enjoy! Blogs ID Title...
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Hunting down DES in order to securely deploy Kerberos
Hello folks, Ned here again. By now many businesses have begun deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Since Active Directory has become ubiquitous, Kerberos is now commonplace. What you may...
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Mythical Creatures – Corrupt User Profiles
“Ned” the Gnome Mike here again and in the spirit of Halloween I want to discuss mythical creatures. What would the world be without J.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of smelly, leather-skinned Orcs...
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Controlling USMT Desktop Shell Icon Behavior from XP (and how to create...
People of Earth! It is I, Ned - your benevolent alien dictator - back again to talk to you about USMT. A few customers have asked me how to prevent XP Classic Start Menu desktop icons from migrating to...
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New Directory Services Content 10/17-10-23
New KB Articles ID Title 977983 Group Policy preferences client-side extension hotfix rollup for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 931125 Windows root certificate program members 931304 Windows...
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Friday Mail Sack: Not Particularly Terrifying Edition
Hiya folks, Ned here again. In today’s Mail Sack I discuss SP1, DFSR, GPP passwords, USMT, backups, AD disk configurations, and the importance of costumed pets. Boo. Question Should it be safe to use...
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Common DFSR Configuration Mistakes and Oversights
Greetings everyone. Warren here again with a blog post that is a collection of common DFSR issues that I have encountered over the past few years. The goal of this blog post is to list these common...
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New Directory Services Content 10/24-10/30
KB Articles Article No Title 314282 Lingering objects may remain after you bring an out-of-date global catalog server back online 2447414 User GPP Scheduled Task item fails to apply and logs event id:...
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Migrating DFS Namespaces to Preserve Old Domain Names
Hi folks, Ned here again. A few years ago Dave Fisher wrote a treatise on how to migrate your domain-based DFS namespaces from one forest or domain to another. It works great and a lot of people have...
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Think Positive
In this line of work it‘s hard to remain optimistic. You deal with mistakes, bugs, ignorance. You repair more than you create. You often work for those who cannot comprehend what you do. Your most...
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Friday Mail Sack: General Lejeune Edition
Hello everybody, Ned here again to share some conversations. This week I talk some SMB security, domain renames, file compression, and DFSR DFSR DFSR! Question I successfully renamed my domain some...
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Yeowza, 0x1f4 articles!
And I just noticed that the last post put us to our 500th article. That’s a post every 205,200 seconds! Wait, that doesn’t sound impressive. That’s a post every 2.3 days! OK, not quite Raymond Chen or...
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New Directory Services KB Articles
Hi everyone, we have a few new and updated articles from last week that are Directory Services related. Content ID Title 951581 LDAP queries are executed more slowly than expected in the AD or...
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New ADFS Content on TechNet Wiki (11/16/2010)
Hello everyone! Adam has published a new round of content for Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to the TechNet Wiki. These articles include troubleshooting information and how-tos to assist...
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Reading LDAP SSL Network Traffic with NetMon 3.4 and NMDecrypt
Hi folks, Ned here again. Today I show you how to decrypt LDAP traffic protected by SSL by using Network Monitor and its handy add-on NetMon Decryption Expert. This is useful when you need to see what...
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Happy 25th Birthday Windows (tomorrow)
On November 20th, 1985 Windows 1.0 launched. It fit on just two double-sided floppy disks and needed 256K of RAM – although you needed 512K if you wanted to actually run more than one program at a...
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