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Next week, Microsoft organizes the second TechEd continental event of this quarter: TechEd Europe 2013 in Madrid . With 7000 seats, chances are small this event will sell out (although I still have hopes due to the special Surface offer for attendees...
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A lot of organizations run Active Directory Domain Services as their Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. Their Domain Controllers unlock access to the simplified view on the organization’s processes, structure and systems, so people can perform...
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So I have been banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why I have been getting these crazy errors in dcDiag. From all that I can tell replication is working as expected but yet I am getting errors that are mostly undocumented and difficult...
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For a limited time, Computer Collectief is offering books on Windows Server 2008 for a mere €10 each. While all these books would be great resources and a professional way to spend your holidays on the beach, I feel one particular book, should really...
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Microsoft introduced Dynamic Access Control (DAC) as its claims-based authorization solution. It’s revolutionary, because it enables admins to more granularly control access to file resources, based on attributes of objects in Active Directory, like department,...
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Back from TechEd North America 2013 and almost recuperated from my jetlag (7 hours difference), some of the bits and pieces get their place and new thoughts are formed. Having seen the keynote ( see it here ) and the new features added in Windows 8.1...
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After last year’s TechEd North America (Orlando) and TechEd Europe (Amsterdam), but specifically after last week’s TechEd North America (New Orleans), I’m excited to share with you that I’ve been selected to staff the Access and Information Protection...
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Using Active Directory Domain Services as the solid foundation of your Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy, results in common challenges for most organizations I meet. While the first three parts of this series have focused on objects and links...
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The proud owner of the first official Dutch Microsoft Surface Pro is … me. Yesterday evening, Microsoft Netherlands organized a Pre-Launch Party for the Surface Pro. The event was hosted by the Windows Client Marketing Team from the Dutch Microsoft subsidiary...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012-based Domain Controllers (as well as Windows 7 and Windows 8 management workstations with the Remote Server Administration Tools installed) offer the built-in ability to manage Active Directory through PowerShell....
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Within Exchange 2013 you can have OWA (Outlook Web App) Mailbox policies , in which an Exchange Admin can determine which features within OWA are available to users. By default, there's a default policy with all options enabled, but you can have more...
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Microsoft identified an issue, where scans of the Active Directory Domain Services Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) fail. About the AD DS BPA Microsoft’s Best Practices Analyzers (BPAs) offer guidance on avoiding 80% to 90% of situations that lead to system...
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Domain Controllers are the backbone of many networking environments in many organizations. Unavailability and a lack of performance of these servers quickly escalates into numerous helpdesk calls and employee disgruntlement. Many admins opt to beef up...
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A lot of organizations run Active Directory Domain Services as their Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. Their Domain Controllers unlock access to the simplified view on the organization’s processes, structure and systems, so people can perform...
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AAAAAAH…. this is not a typical reaction I have when setting up things, but this one was driving me nuts. Let me explain… Story so far… I was asked to help a company with the implementation of Single Sign-on (SSO) between their on-premises environment...
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A while ago, I received a mail from TechEd. In it, the TechEd North America Staff Communications team congratulated me with being selected to participate as product subject matter expert, learning guide or ambassador at TechEd North America 2013! For...
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To prevent having to restore objects from Active Directory due to accidentally deleting an object, you can have a remote DC which only sends/receives replication on a limited basis. You also want to prevent users from authenticating against, as well as...
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In many organizations Active Directory Domain Services is the top tier in access management. Access to systems, information and connections, often, is governed by information in Active Directory. User objects and computer objects play a big role in this...
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As you might be aware, every Microsoft technology has the requirement to be manageable through PowerShell and System Center. Manageability through System Center is done through Management Packs. (MPs). While I discussed the PowerShell manageability stories...
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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...
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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...
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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 Microsoft's Online Services environment (Scenario 1) and also details the scenario...
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With the installation of Windows 8 there comes an end to the ‘classic’ start menu era. Off course you can put all the programs you want on the start screen. However, things like the control panel, command prompt or the computer management snap-in might...
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Recently somebody asked via Twitter my what the make and model is of my laptop, used for Exchange testing environments. Well, 140 characters is not a lot of space so I decided to blog about it. Our company uses Dell laptops as a laptop standard, but other...
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A while back , Microsoft enabled the long awaited 2-factor authentication feature for Microsoft Accounts and released a code generator for Windows Phone . But a little know fact is that this app can also be used for the Google Account Two-factor authentication....
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