It’s our turn to ask you a question

Hi. Russell here. Scott and I are in the pre-production stages for a series of AskDS podcasts and video “How To’s.”

We’d like your input on the content that will help you the most. As an example, we’ve been tasked with providing a video demo of Metadata cleanup. I bet you were not aware that there is a GUI version available, in addition to the tried and true NTDSUtil that we’ve all come to love (sarcasm intentional).

So how about some ideas on what you want to see and hear? (scratch and sniff not available) What are some of your pain points that you’d like to have addressed by way of a podcast or video “How To?”

Let us know in our comments section below or by emailing us through our contact form above.

Thanks!

Russell ”The Spaniard” Despain

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2010
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• Anonymous
  April 15, 2010
  I would love to have a current and accurate demo of how to properly pre-seed data for a new DFSR member, or for moving DFSR targets from one location to another. I know that I have had many troubles getting this working properly, and so have many others.

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2010
  I would like to hear more information on troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 DC replication.  If I am using DFSR I don't have the option to use Sonar, Ultrasound etc.   What about forcing replication on a DC similar to the old method using Burflags for Windows Server 2008 Domain level?  I know about wbadmin but what if I don't have a backup, can I still do a non authoritative restore to force that DC back into production? What other items are recommended to do when migrating from a Windows 2000 or 2003 domain to 2008?  I know about DFSRMig, what about this article?  Is this pertinant when going from Windows 2000 to 2008, can you explain it a bit more? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817470

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2010
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• Anonymous
  April 16, 2010
  Oops... The AD DS Team already has a blog on NTLM Blocking posted at <http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2009/10/08/ntlm-blocking-and-you-application-analysis-and-auditing-methodologies-in-windows-7.aspx>  In any case, in that Blog in Step 6, the DS Team notes that we should "Come up with an audit event collection strategy." That's the latter part of my previous idea. How about focusing a 'How To' on extracting detailed field data from any particular Event log? And not just one of the 'easy' ones like Application or System, but one of the newer deeply nested ones--perhaps like 'Microsoft-Windows-NTLM/Operational' Hint Hint  :-)

• Anonymous
  April 17, 2010
  I wouldn't mind seeing some updated content for Lingering Objects. Things have gotten much better now that we have the /removelingeringobjects switch (oh how I love it!), but dealing with and removing LO's still seems to be a mystery to many folks. And on that theme... is there any particular reason you can think of for why AD doesn't try to self-heal that kind of situation? We enforce strict replication which obviously has some good & bad points when an LO does pop up if nobody notices it for months (oops!).