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I have had my KMS server up and running for several years without any problems. Recently I was working on a new 2008 Standard Server and it wouldn't activate. I attempted to first use the standard GUI on the Windows Activation screen. I was even surprised...
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Since I’ve shared some key information on Tech·Ed Europe 2010 earlier , I guess you’ve already concluded I’ll be attending Tech·Ed Europe this year. Together with two colleagues (Roland Zenhorst and Dave Stork) I’ll be staying in a triple room at the...
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With Microsoft planning for the next version of the Windows Desktop, collectively referred to as Windows 8 , promising to supersede Windows 7 and Windows XP together, some of us feel a need to chip in. Here’s your chance! Together with Michael Pietroforte...
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The past week I delivered the FIM 2010 Foundation course that is made available by Oxford Computer Group . One of the things I noticed is that people struggle with all the terms and abbreviations. Because of that I promised my attendees to create a nice...
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This post focusses on restoring the SYSVOL when replicated through the DFS-R mechanism. For the previous posts see here and here . SYSVOL Replicated Through DFS-R - Authoritative Restore - Steps To Take To perform an authoritative restore of the SYSVOL...
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This post focusses on restoring the SYSVOL when replicated through the NTFRS mechanism. For the previous post see here and for the next post see here . SYSVOL Replicated Through NTFRS - Authoritative Restore - Steps To Take To perform an authoritative...
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The SYSVOL contains logon scripts and GPOs for a particular AD domain. It replicates to all RWDCs and RODCs. When, during the promotion of the very first (W2K8/W2K8R2) RWDC, the DFL is configured with "Windows Server 2003" or lower, then the SYSVOL will...
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I have proposed to speak at TechED 2010 about the following: "DC Locator in AD for authN and SYSVOL/NETLOGON". Please go to the following website and vote for my session called "Locating Domain Controllers for AuthN and SYSVOL/NETLOGON Access" Website...
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Yes, it's that time of the year again! TEC 2010 EUROPE is coming and is planned for the first week of October 2010. This time you can find us in Dusseldorf. I'll be delivering one pre-conference workshops this year about disaster recovery together with...
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Auditing in Windows Server 2008 also provided granular audit policies, but those were only configurable locally on each server through the utility called AUDITPOL. From within a GPO you could only configure the global auditing policies. Windows Server...
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If you are using some system manage Identities in AD and you are either using ILM 2007 FP1 or FIM 2010 you may need to configure the ILM/FIM Sync Engine to act on the AccountStatus value and translate that to the userAccountControl value in AD. So......
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With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced Server Core into the Windows Server operating system, which is a new installation option. Summarized: Windows Server WITH a GUI is Full Server and WIndows Server WITHOUT a GUI is Server Core. You could also...
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While ago I wrote short entry about adding new claim mapping to existing definition of identity token provider. After this post I got following comment from one of readers (good that I still have some of them here :) ): When I run the powershell command...
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If you have multiple domain controllers (dc) within a site and you would like to have one of these dc's refered to more often or only if no other dc is available. Selection of a dc within a site is controlled by both the weight and priority. Weight of...
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I have started playing with ADFSv2 and I'm trying to configure Sharepoint 2010 to use ADFSv2 as an authN provider. I found the following links to get this done. I don't feel like searching for this again and because of that I decided to blog the links...
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What started with the Configure your Server wizard and the introduction of Server Roles in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, resulted in the tangible value of the Initial Configuration Tasks wizard ( oobe.exe ) and the Server Manager (servermanager.msc )...
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What started with the Configure your Server wizard and the introduction of Server Roles in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, resulted in the tangible value of the Initial Configuration Tasks wizard ( oobe.exe ) and the Server Manager (servermanager.msc )...
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I just started diving into ADFS and its inner workings. I also found this great video by Matt Steele where he, in an easy way, explains at a high-level what ADFS can do for you and how it works in combination with Windows Azure. See it here . Cheers,...
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What started with the Configure your Server wizard and the introduction of Server Roles in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, resulted in the tangible value of the Initial Configuration Tasks wizard ( oobe.exe ) and the Server Manager (servermanager.msc )...
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I'm done with an intensive month of sessions, delivered for different user groups and other communities online. When you managed to attend my session about Kerberos I hope you liked it ;). Now it's time for some blogging activities. A friend asked on...
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In my personal FIM test environment I have not had any issues with update MS-KBQ983444 (MS10-039: Description of the security update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: June 8, 2010) . However, at my customer I have experienced issues twice (different...
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FIM 2010 and a lot of other apps use some kind of version of .NET Framework. If you want to check the health and status of the .NET Framework version(s) you have installed, then you can use the .NET Framework Verification Tool. SOURCE : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/10/13/8999004.aspx...
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Four years ago, on June 26th 2006, I posted the first piece of writing to this blog space. Little did I know back then the adventure I was getting myself into… Looking back, it’s not just the experience of writing stuff down for the whole world to see....
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" The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.2 to migrate users, groups, service accounts,...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 was released on October 22nd 2009. With a slew of new Active Directory features, the newest incarnation of Windows Server was appealing to many customers. But not to some customers. One thing that stood in their way was the inability...
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