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What's Hybrid Identity?
Hello everyone, Now that I've got Azure AD, how can I take advantage of my investments on ADDS? This...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 10/24/2017
Why do I need Azure AD?
This is an Ice breaker and a question I get all the time and I see it maybe in the same way an...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 10/23/2017
Lingering Objects cleanup
Recently I have been working with a premier customer in South Africa to cleanup their forest from...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 10/16/2014
How to prevent the creation of GPOs from outside AGPM (Advanced Group Policy Management)
During my interactions with Premier Microsoft customers I have found out that the main reason for...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 08/21/2013
Fine Grained Password Policies GUI in Windows Server 2012 ADAC
Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Have you ever used...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 04/12/2013
AD recycle bin feature and Windows Server 2012 GUI
Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. The AD recycle bin...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 03/18/2013
How to clone a virtual Domain Controller
Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. On one of my...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 03/07/2013
So you wanted to deploy Domain Controllers faster...Now you can!
A Domain Controller must have a unique name, invocation ID, and security identifier (SID) in the...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 12/11/2012
USN Rollback, Virtualized DCs and improvements on Windows Server 2012.
The USN rollback issue has been causing hundreds of support calls and AD replication halts...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 12/10/2012
Secure Channel Broken - continuation of "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."
While there can be several reasons for AD replication to fail due to an "access denied" error (you...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 12/03/2012
"The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."
How many times have you came across reports of users complaining that they cannot logon to the...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 11/22/2012
WMI through firewall
In a number of ocasions have been asked to configure services running under the svchost process to...
Author: Paulo Viralhadas (MSFT) Date: 11/22/2012