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WDS and DFSR: Love at First Sync
Ned here again. Windows Server 2008 introduced a new way to roll out your computers called Windows...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 12/6-12/12
KB 976947 The memory usage of the Lsass.exe process keeps increasing on one or more domain...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 12/14/2009
Windows XP Power Management and Group Policy Preferences
Hi everyone, Mike here again to discuss a common scenario that generates calls to Microsoft. The...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2009
Control Extended Protection for Authentication using Security Policy
Mike here again. Microsoft has introduced additional security measures for authentication known as...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 12/10/2009
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Group Policy Central Store
Mike here again to help bring clarity to something we are seeing with Windows Server 2008 R2 and...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 11/29-12/5
KB 977755 Error message when a Group Policy client-side extension cannot log RSOP Data:''0x80041002"...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 12/07/2009
Windows Event Log Service is Not Starting… and my domain is down!
Hi everybody, Scott Goad here to discuss an issue that I worked recently where the customer was...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2009
Link-Pairs and Configuring Bridgeheads in ADAM/ADLDS
Well, hello there AskDS readers. "Terrible" Tim Springston here with a little...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 12/02/2009
Understanding USMT 4.0 Behavior with UEL and UE
Ned here again, reporting live from the tree. Today I am going to explain an expected behavior with...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 11/23-11/28
KB 970536 Setspn.exe support tool update for Windows Server 2003 977510 Authentication fails when an...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 11/30/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 11/1-11/21
Sorry for the lack of posts the last two weeks. I was away on vacation. Now back to our regularly...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 11/24/2009
Group Policy Preferences Logging and Windows 7
Hi all, Mike here again. Back in July of 2007, I posted a blog explaining how to enable Group Policy...
Author: MikeStephensMSFT Date: 11/19/2009
Get a 90 day trial copy of Windows 7 Enterprise
Still not sure about taking the Windows 7 plunge in your company? Get a fully functional 90-day...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
Implementing Content Freshness protection in DFSR
Hi all, Ned here again. Starting in Windows Server 2008, DFSR supports a protective mechanism called...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
I Hate Mondays
The lesson here is if you go on vacation for a week, make sure your boss is gone too. Otherwise he...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/16/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 10/25-10/31
KB 975830 The memory usage of the Dns.exe process keeps increasing after you install hotfix 941672...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 11/04/2009
Auditing Password and Account Lockout Policy on Windows Server 2008 and R2
Ned here again. Let’s talk about auditing your domain for changes made to Password and Account...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 10/18-10/24
KB 976723 IPv6 network address seems case-sensitive at address assignment for multiple network...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 10/30/2009
Comment issues, continued
Hey all. If you have a moment, please try and post a comment on this post. Especially non-Microsoft...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2009
Explanation of the Remote Desktop Services CAL Upgrade behavior in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008
Hello everyone, Brian Singleton here. There has been a lot of confusion over the Remote Desktop...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2009
DFS Referrals and IPv6: Outta site!
Hi, David Everett here again to discuss an issue where DFS clients connect to out-of-site targets...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2009
Followup - more info on the new SCOM 2007 Management Pack for DFSR
Hey all, Ned here again. Mahesh from the DFSR development team has new posts up on the System Center...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2009
How to Decommission an ADAM/ADLDS server and Add Additional Servers
Hello, LaNae here again. Recently I worked with a customer that was looking for a comprehensive...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2009
Using ADMT 3.1 to migrate to Windows Server 2008 R2 domains
UPDATE June 19 2010 - stop reading and go here, we released ADMT 3.2:...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/26/2009
Group Policy Slow Link Detection using Windows Vista and later
Mike here again. Many Group Policy features rely on a well connected network for their success....
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2009
Come and get it
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 reached general availability today. The line in our site’s...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/22/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 10/11-10/17
KB 970401 Description of BitLocker To Go Reader 972422 A Windows XP-based computer stops responding...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 10/19/2009
DFSR Monitoring Management Pack for System Center 2007 Released
You can stop yelling at me, it's released: Download: DFS Replication Management Pack for System...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2009
ADMT, RODC’s, and Error 800704f1
Hello all, Jason here again. With this blog post, I just wanted to bring an ADMT issue to the...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2009
Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part II Implementation Phases and Certificate Authority Installation
The series: Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part I Design and Planning Designing and Implementing...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/13/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 10/4-10/10
KB 976235 You receive an error message that contains the event ID 11 error code when you try to...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 10/12/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 9/27-10/3
KB 976063 When you run an LDAP query against a Windows Server 2008-based domain controller, you...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 10/09/2009
NTLM Blocking and You: Application Analysis and Auditing Methodologies in Windows 7
Ned here again. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 introduce a long sought feature known as NTLM...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2009
New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 9/20-9/26
KBs 975440 Error message when you try to access a DFS Namespace from a Windows XP-based computer:...
Author: Craig Landis Date: 10/02/2009
O’DFS Shares! Where Art Thou? – Part 3/3
Hello, this is Sabin and Shravan from the Microsoft Directory Services Support team. We are back to...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 10/01/2009
O’DFS Shares! Where Art Thou? – Part 2/3
Hello, this is Sabin and Shravan from the Microsoft Directory Services Support team once again. We...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/30/2009
O’DFS Shares! Where Art Thou? – Part 1/3
Hello, this is Sabin and Shravan from the Microsoft Directory Services Support team. We are here...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/29/2009
AzMan MMC with a sample application
Hey everyone, Mark from Directory Services again. Just the other day I ran across something that may...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2009
So you have a slow logon…? (Part 2)
Bob Drake again and welcome back for the second part of the slow logon series. In this next part I...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/24/2009
So you have a slow logon…? (Part 1)
Hi, Bob Drake here again after a short blogging hiatus. I have put this two-part blog post together...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2009
ADFS – Federated WebSSO with Forest Trust Scenario and its Limitations
Hi, it's Adam Conkle again. Today I’d like to talk about an ADFS case I had recently where the...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/22/2009
Understanding LDAP Security Processing
It’s Randy again, here to discuss LDAP security. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2009
I Hate Fridays
I will have my revenge. Oh yes… I will have it. - Ned ‘Angry Garden Gnome’ Pyle
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2009
Clarification on upgrading Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi, Ned here again. I’ve been assigned to the Platforms beta team here for the past year. One...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2009
ADWS has been released for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003
Ned here. The beta is over, and the new AD Web Service service introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2009
Windows 2008 R2: Managing AD LDS using the AD PowerShell Module
Hello it’s LaNae again. Now that Windows 2008 R2 is available we get to use the coolness of...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2009
Managed Service Accounts: Understanding, Implementing, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting
Ned here again. One of the more interesting new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2009
Comment problems
Hi all. After the recent mandate of CAPTCHA for TechNet blogs, we seem to no longer be getting any...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2009
Windows 2008 R2 Standard Edition supports Version 2 and 3 Templates
Chris here again. This time I have a quick post. For those looking for reasons to either implement a...
Author: NedPyle [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2009