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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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/17/2010
New ADFS Content on TechNet Wiki (11/16/2010)
Hello everyone! Adam has published a new round of content for Active Directory Federation Services...
Author: Jonathan Stephens, MSFT Date: 11/16/2010
New Directory Services KB Articles
Hi everyone, we have a few new and updated articles from last week that are Directory Services...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 11/15/2010
Yeowza, 0x1f4 articles!
And I just noticed that the last post put us to our 500th article. That’s a post every 205,200...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/12/2010
Think Positive
In this line of work it‘s hard to remain optimistic. You deal with mistakes, bugs, ignorance....
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2010
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KB Articles Article No Title 314282 Lingering objects may remain after you bring an out-of-date...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 11/01/2010
Common DFSR Configuration Mistakes and Oversights
Greetings everyone. Warren here again with a blog post that is a collection of common DFSR issues...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2010
New Directory Services Content 10/17-10-23
New KB Articles ID Title 977983 Group Policy preferences client-side extension hotfix rollup for...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 10/25/2010
Controlling USMT Desktop Shell Icon Behavior from XP (and how to create registry values out of thin air)
People of Earth! It is I, Ned - your benevolent alien dictator - back again to talk to you about...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/21/2010
Mythical Creatures – Corrupt User Profiles
“Ned” the Gnome Mike here again and in the spirit of Halloween I want to discuss...
Author: MikeStephensMSFT Date: 10/20/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2010
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...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 10/18/2010
Two more positions opened
If you live in the US and want to come work with us here in Directory Services support, we have...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/18/2010
RESTOREDFSR.VBS Version 3 now available
Hello folks, Ned here again. The infamous restoredfsr.vbs has now been rewritten (thanks for the...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2010
Get-DFSRBacklog PowerShell Script Available
Hi folks. Our buddy Steve Grinker has posted an excellent sample PowerShell script for retrieving...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/12/2010
Friday Mail Sack: Cluedo Edition
Hello there folks, it's Ned. I’ve been out of pocket for a few weeks and I am moving to a new role...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2010
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...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 09/27/2010
AD LDS Schema Files Demystified
Hi, Russell here. When installing Active Directory Lightweight Domain Services (AD LDS) instances,...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 09/27/2010
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...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 09/20/2010
New ADFS Content on TechNet Wiki
Adam Conkle has published some great troubleshooting, tips and tricks and how to articles on TechNet...
Author: Jonathan Stephens, MSFT Date: 09/20/2010
Hear hear
Kip Ng gives the sometimes unpopular but ultimately best advice: IT Operations: The Reasons Why You...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2010
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...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 09/14/2010
Series Wrap-up and Downloads - Replacing DFSR Member Hardware or OS
Hey all, Ned here again. Here is the complete set of DFSR upgrade and migration docs: Replacing DFSR...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2010
Multi-NIC File Server Dissection
Ned here. Our friend and colleague Jose Barreto from the File Server development team has posted a...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/01/2010
The Case of the Enormous CA Database
Hello, faithful readers! Jonathan here again. Today I want to talk a little about Certification...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/31/2010
New Directory Services Content 8/22-8/28
KB ArticlesThere are several articles below that are related to support of Single Label Domains,...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 08/30/2010
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...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2010
How Not to Interview
Our excellent colleague Keith Combs found this movie created by Microsoft Learning. It is both...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2010
Don’t mess about with USMT’s included manifests!
Ned here. Today I talk about the importance of the included USMT component manifests and how things...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2010
Forcing Afterhours User Logoffs
Mike here and today I want to answer a common customer request—how to force users to logoff at...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2010
New Directory Services Content 8/15-8/21
KB ArticlesOnly one new KB article of interest this week: Number Title 2385108 Accessing a folder...
Author: Scott Goad Date: 08/23/2010
Friday Mail Sack: Scooter Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. It’s that time where we look back on the more interesting questions and...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/20/2010
Fine-Grained Password Policy and “Urgent Replication”
Hi folks, Ned here again. Today I discuss the so-called “urgent replication” of AD, specifically...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2010
AskDS is 0.03 Centuries Old Today
Three years ago today the AskDS site published its first post and had its first commenter. In the...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2010