This has been a question that has come up with several of my customers recently. Therefore I thought this would be a good topic to discuss. Modifying the Schema is something that is a necessary action prior to carrying out installation of Directory Enabled Applications whether they are Microsoft or 3rd Party. Plus of course…
Tag: Active Directory
ISTG what happens when it Fails ?
I had an interesting investigation the other day with a customer of mine with reference to the role and failover of the ISTG role. In the customers scenario they switch off the ISTG and several other servers in a very busy site to simulate a outage scenario. This site is a main hub site in…
Upcoming Event @ ADUG (Active Directory User Group )
Hi myself and a colleague Richard Diver will be talking at the upcoming ADUG as run Mark Parris on the 15th of June @6.15pm. http://adug.eventbrite.com/. This will be held at our London Office Microsoft (London) Cardinal Place 100 Victoria Street London, London, City Of SW1E 5JL United Kingdom We will be talking around the following…
Revisiting and important question
A little while ago I posted about what is considered best practice with regards to the Default Domain Controller policies and Default Domain Policy. http://blogs.technet.com/janelewis/archive/2007/04/24/just-don-t-do-it.aspx At the time I was struggling to find some good examples to back up my post. However After some discussion internally some learned and senior escalation engineers for Microsoft in…
Active Directory 2008 Operations Guide
The Active Directory 2008 Operations guide is now available for download from this location. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=291bddb7-edc6-4e6d-9852-a9a14991d67c&displayLang=en
Virtualization of Domain Controllers part Deux
Hi a few weeks ago I blogged about recommended best practises of Virtualizing your Domain Controllers environment. I am currently working with a customer on quite a complicated scenario that touches on virtualization and through my research and pointers from my Colleague Mark Empson have come across an excellent Blog Post posted by Gavin Mcshera…
Teched Orlando Wish me Luck
Well here I am with my colleague Mark Empson busily preparing for our Session "Power of Windows 2008" at Teched in Orlando Florida. So Please have a quick prayer on our behalf to the Demo Gods so they will look kindly down on us. I am also working on the TLC Demo Booths for Server…
RODC Windows 2008 Compatibility Pack released
If you are going to be utilising RODC in mixed environment (XP and 2003 ), then you need to download the Windows 2008 RODC Compatibility Pack. The Product Group and Dev Team, have been working exceedingly hard to get this released. It addresses the following issues as described by Product Group. "To provide support for…
Great Couple of days in the Emerald Isle
Apologies for not posting for a couple of weeks but I have been head down doing lots and lots of 2008 preparation for a series of gigs I have had coming up over this month and early next month. Last Friday 23rd May I spent a great day @ Microsoft Ireland. This was partaking in…
RSAT Tools for Vista SP1 now available in All Languages
Sorry for the break in blogging. However I have been away on my holidays to a lovely part of the U.K. Lincolnshire Wolds. Very nice but very cold. Good news for RSAT Client is that it is available in all languages now. Please see below table for details of downloads. Language Code X86 X64…