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Not able to request certificate with private key archival enabled.

Hi all, Recently, I got a chance to work on one of the case where we couldn’t request the...

Date: 07/17/2009

Manipulating Groups in Windows 2008 R2 using AD PowerShell Script.

In Windows 2008 R2, a series of PowerShell Script is added to manage Active Directory. You can...

Date: 04/24/2009

Cannot Install Enterprise Certification Authority On Windows 2008

Problem: While trying to install Enterprise CA on Windows 2008 machine you receive an error message:...

Date: 04/23/2009

Newly Promoted Win2K8 DC is not advertising as Domain Controller.

A newly promoted DC may fail to advertise as DC, if the forest functional level is set to Windows...

Date: 04/23/2009

Trusted Domain Objects

Trusts are represented by trustedDomain objects, which reside in the System container of each...

Date: 02/24/2009

Not able to Duplicate Certificate Template

In past I’ve worked on a case where in the customer couldn’t duplicate Certificate template, even...

Date: 02/15/2009

Script to List out OU’s and objects within it.

I thought of sharing a script, which will list out a report for all the OU’s in domain. This report...

Date: 02/12/2009

Managing Windows Server 2008 Core with powerful commands, Part2

Since there is no Windows User Interface in Core installation so we have to use command line tools...

Date: 02/12/2009

How to request certificate from third party CA and install it on the machine.

The right way to go about requesting and installing certificate are below: 1. Run certreq –new...

Date: 02/10/2009

Managing Windows Server 2008 Core with powerful commands, Part1

  1. To join a domain At a command prompt, type: netdom join <ComputerName>...

Date: 02/09/2009

Windows 2008 AD new feature, “PROTECT OBJECT FROM ACCIDENTAL DELETION”.

Windows 2008 AD new feature, “PROTECT OBJECT FROM ACCIDENTAL DELETION”. Windows Server 2008 has a...

Date: 02/04/2009

Active Directory Snapshot, new feature in Windows 2008

AD SNAPSHOT Windows Server 2008 has a new feature allowing administrators to create snapshots of the...

Date: 02/04/2009

Windows 7 new features:

Accessibility improvements. Microsoft has revamped the accessibility features in Windows 7 with...

Date: 02/03/2009

New Feature, Active directory recycle bin in Windows 2008 R2.

With the AD recycle bin, one would be able to recover any accidentally deleted objects just by...

Date: 02/02/2009