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Howdy partners, Ned here. This week we talk event logs, auditing, NTLM “fallback”, file server monitoring, and SCOM 2007 management pack dissection. It was a fairly quiet week for questions since everyone is off for vacation at this point, I reckon. That didn’t mean it wasn’t crazy at work – our folks take vacation too,… Read more
Hello everyone, this is Shravan from the Active Directory team and Jason from the System Center VMM team here at Microsoft. This is part 2 of the blog series where we discuss how to migrate Active Directory domain controllers to a virtualized system. Last time we discussed how to plan for moving the physical domain… Read more
Hello again folks, Ned here for another grab bag of questions we’ve gotten this week. This late posting thing is turning into a bad habit, but I’ve been an epileptic octopus here this week with all the stuff going on. Too many DFSR questions though, you guys need to ask other stuff! Let’s crank. DFSR… Read more
Hello Everyone, this is Shravan from the Active Directory team and Jason from the System Center VMM team here at Microsoft. We will be discussing a scenario that comes up often: how to migrate active directory domain controllers to a virtualized system. Why Now? Reduce Cost! Reduce Cost! Reduce Cost! It’s an old adage. When… Read more
Hello, David Everett here again. This time I’m going to cover configuration and management of Active Directory Diagnostics Data Collector Sets. Data Collector Sets are the next generation of a utility called Server Performance Advisor (SPA). Prior to Windows Server 2008, troubleshooting Active Directory performance issues often required the installation of SPA. SPA is helpful… Read more
Hello folks, Ned here again. After a week in Las Colinas Texas, the blog migration, and Jonathan’s attempted coup, we are still standing. Since I’m sure your whole day has been designed around this post I won’t keep you waiting. RODC WAN down behavior DFSR and the PDCE RPC encryption in DFSR Windows 7 and… Read more
KB 983456 SMTP configuration options are reset in Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, after you install the MS10-024 update (976323) 981482 In Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 environment, if the network environment is set to enable Delay ACK and storage is connected with… Read more
Hi folks, Ned here again. After much noodling and work here with our TechNet writer team, there is a new, consolidated set of info for Windows Time (w32time) in all of our operating systems, to include Windows 7 and Win2008 R2. All of it can be found here: Windows Time Service Technical Reference This includes updated… Read more
KB 983254 The first data point that is in a Performance Monitor log .csv file may be a larger number than expected in a Windows Server 2003-based domain Blogs File Services management pack has been released ADFS/SharePoint webcast w/Brjann Brekkan Group Policy Setting of the Week 26 – Do not automatically make redirected folders available… Read more
The series: Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part I Design and Planning Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part II Implementation Phases and Certificate Authority Installation Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part III Certificate Templates Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part IV Configuring SSL for Web Enrollment and Enabling Key Archival Designing and Implementing a PKI:… Read more