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• in IT
  NetWrix Releases New Version of Active Directory Change Reporter
  Version 7.1 of Active Directory Change Reporter Provides Support for IT infrastructure auditing and compliance.
  by gsimon / on Nov 29, 2012
• in Guru
  Brochure Buzzwords - Identity Management, Provisioning
  Brochure Buzzwords of Identity Management can bring your project to halt before it begins.
  by binaryblogger / on May 27, 2011
• in IT
  Pearson's Video Mentor: Reaching Out to Social Media
  Pearson education's Video Mentor is a 2 hour video plus book, a fairly simplified certification instruction manual.
  by ecothrust / on Mar 18, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “active directory”

 

• Default Domain Policy is disabled, but GPO is still applying (I think)

  
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  On Friday, I noticed that the link for the Default Domain Policy is disabled, but today I notice that the old admin had linked it to a User OU, 3 levels down from the top of the Domain. Stuff like password policy "Maximum Password Age" and "Password must meet complexity requirements" are still being applied, but Im ...
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• Changing DFL from 2003 to 2008, what could break?

  
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  Simple question, probably not a simple answer. We have removed all pre-2008 DCs from our environment. In fact I believe they are all 2008r2 now. Currently, our Domain Functional Level is set for 2003. We want to move it to 2008. Question is, what could break? We run a mix of XP, 7, and Mac OS for our ...
  2 days ago

• Domain Server 2008; Mapped folders show up incorrect.

  
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  Hello, we recently upgraded our domain server to 2008 r2, and we are currently using log in scripts to map folders, some of the users wind up only showing "network Drive" (T) instead of the named folder, and some of the users show the named folder. Client computers are windows XP. Is there something easy to do ...
  2 days ago

• Getting a lot of Event ID 5722 (Computer Failed to Authenticate) on all DCs

  
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  We are getting about 15-20 of these errors on each of our 2003 domain controllers. Event Type: Error Event Source: NETLOGON Event Category: None Event ID: 5722 Date: 5/17/2013 Time: 12:57:03 AM User: N/A Computer: NT1 Description: The session setup from the computer WS21 failed to authenticate. The ...
  2 days ago

• Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory, Fifth Edition

  
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  Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory, Fifth Edition 2013 | ISBN-10: 1449320023 | 738 pages | PDF | 24 MB Organize your network resources by learning how to design, manage, and maintain Active Directory. Updated to cover Windows Server 2012, the fifth edition of this bestselling guide ...
  2 days ago

• Active Directory Contacts and ActiveSync

  
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  Hello, I added the office numbers to Active Directory contacts. This has pushed out via active sync to our field mobiles. This however randomly picks a name from the contact list and indicates that this person is calling. As the office line is a single number I was requested to remove this. However the ...
  2 days ago

• Server 2012 & Multiple Domain Controllers

  
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  Im in the process of learning networking essentials (active directory) with Windows Server 2012 . I have had one machine running Server 2012 core since it was RTM and working quite nicely. I decided to setup a second domain controller also running server 2012 core. I set it up through the wizard which was quite easy. ...
  1 week ago

• Active Directory Services and PowerShell manageability

  
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  As you might be aware, every Microsoft server product has the requirement to be manageable through PowerShell and System Center. The PowerShell requirement is formulated as part of the Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) . With PowerShell available as a version 3 product (and part of Windows Server 2012) it’s time ...
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• Active Directory Services on Server Core installations

  
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  Windows Server 2012 is a major leap forward for Server Core installations of Windows Server. Not only are Full installations of Windows Server convertible back and forth to Server Core installations without reinstallation, a whole slew of new Server Roles have become available for installation on the mean, clean ...
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• Dedicated Forest Root Domains in Active Directory

  
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  Should I include a dedicated forest root domain in my Active Directory design? It’s long been considered best practice to create a dedicated forest root domain at the top of the Active Directory (AD) hierarchy. Often referred to as an empty root domain , a dedicated root domain doesn’t contain any groups or ...
  1 week ago

• Step-By-Step: Installing a Replica Active Directory Domain Controller in Windows Azure

  
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  Chatter around cloud computing has increased as of late as more organizations are investigating how to harness the power of the cloud.  Having an always on, always operational infrastructure based in the cloud provides piece of mind for most.  With Microsofts recent announcement around  Price Reductions for ...
  2 weeks ago

• AD MoL Chapter 10 MEAP

  
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  Chapter 10 of AD Management in a Month of Lunches is now available. http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/ The chapter covers Fine Grained Password Policies
  2 weeks ago

• AD MoL Chapter 10 MEAP

  
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  Chapter 10 of AD Management in a Month of Lunches is now available. http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/ The chapter covers Fine Grained Password Policies
  2 weeks ago

• Feature enhancements in AD Change Tracker v2.1

  
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  A new version of AD Change Tracker v2.1 has been released recently with features like Search Events and Events History Manager.  1. Search Events: The Search Events is a powerful feature that allows you to locate the security events that have occurred over a time period and stored in the application’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS): Replicate File Server Content to the Cloud with DFS-R

  
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  Distributed File System (DFS) is of the more powerful functions of your Windows Server.  DFS has been around for quite a few years.  If you are unfamiliar with DFS it has two main underlying functions that provide a lot of power for your infrastructure.   DFS is made up of DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Identity and Authentication in the cloud: Office 2013 and Office 365 (Poster)

  
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  Last week, Microsoft released a poster, detailing identity and authentication for Office 2013 and Office 365 . It details the scenario where you would provision accounts in Microsofts Online Services environment (Scenario 1) and also details the scenario where you would federate your on-premises Active Directory ...
  2 weeks ago

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/6/2013+

  
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  A compendium of Windows Azure, Service Bus, EAI & EDI, Access Control, Connect, SQL Azure Database, and other cloud-computing articles. Note: This post is updated weekly or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Windows Azure Blob, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Admin account keeps getting locked

  
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  My admin account keeps getting locked on the domain and when I rung a tool it shows me it being locked on 2 DCs and one no. or locked on on one DC, and the other two unlocked. why is it locking on some DC and others not?
  2 weeks ago

• Check a Domain Controller Configuration with the DCDiag Tool

  
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  How do I use the DCDiag tool to check a domain controller configuration? After promoting a server to a domain controller ( DC ), or when youre experiencing some problems with Active Directory – and suspecting a DC configuration issue – the dcdiag.exe command-line tool can be extremely useful. There are 27 ...
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• MaxTokenSize – Change of recommendation from Microsoft.

  
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    Microsoft have stated for numerous years that anyone with Kerberos authentication issues often due to users being in multiple groups and commonly known as Token Bloat should increase the MaxTokenSize to 65535 bytes. Whilst reading Understand and Troubleshoot Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012 ...
  2 weeks ago

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