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Windows 7 has a mass appeal to Windows XP users and their system administrators. While major advances were made in Windows Vista and Windows 7, you will always find people opposing change. And, boy! A lot has changed in the user interface since Windows...
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“I’ve always believed in information equality.” While hundreds of companies charge their customers for services with knowledge and experience as unique selling points (USPs), I’ve sat on the sideline enjoying the view. I heard these companies (most of...
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Today I was playing with "ServerManagerCMD.EXE" Windows Server 2008 R2. When I executed it I saw the following informational message: "Servermanagercmd.exe is deprecated, and is not guaranteed to be supported in future releases of Windows. We recommend...
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This is the way to determine which PowerShell Snap-Ins and Modules are available in Windows Server 2008 R2… PS C:\> Get-PSSnapin Name : Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics PSVersion : 2.0 Description : This Windows PowerShell snap-in contains Windows...
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To provision IM-enabled AD accounts this is what you can do in your provisioning code for the AD MA… (example code snippet from my test/demo environment ) If mventry("im").Value.ToLower = "yes" Then Dim strSIPDomain As String Dim strSIPHomeServer As String...
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I found the following once in a presentation. It gives you an idea of "Today's IT Infrastructure". ;-) Looks complex! Cheers, Jorge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technorati...
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Protecting LDAP traffic with SSL is a good idea, especially if in network environment some applications are (ab)using LDAP as authentication protocol. Some explanation of abusing word – LDAP never was designed as authentication protocol (like Kerberos...
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Are you having issues with Hyper-V VMs and experiencing similar issues as explained here ? The solution to these issues is to fix the permissions of the Hyper-V, but do you know exactly what permissions are needed or what's missing? Stop thinking! Use...
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If you have exported a Hyper-V VM to a folder and then try to import it again on another computer for example, you might get the following error: [Window Title] Hyper-V Manager [Main Instruction] A server error occurred while attempting to import the...
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The following AD Forest Recovery Guides are available: Best Practices: Active Directory Forest Recovery (W2K) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3eda5a79-c99b-4df9-823c-933feba08cfe&displaylang=en Planning for Active Directory...
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Get those docs here Cheers, Jorge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights! * Always test before implementing! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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The Microsoft Active Directory Management Gateway Service lets information technology professionals manage Active Directory Directory Service and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service instances that are running on the same server. The Active...
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The Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Branch Office Guide is now live on TechNet and the Download Center! TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd734758(WS.10).aspx Download Center: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=153714 The guide...
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At the moment Microsoft does not support ILM 2007 FP1 in ANY virtual environment. I have not seen an official statement yet on some Microsoft page, but I have read here that ILM 2007 FP1 now is supported to run on Hyper-V. If you want to run it on VMWare,...
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On Patch Tuesday for June 2009 (yesterday, June 9, 2009) Microsoft released security bulletin MS09-18 yesterday to address a vulnerability in Active Directory and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) that could allow remote code execution. It’s should...
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I am out in the Microsoft NewsGroups and quite often I see someone having trouble with their Active Directory (AD) domain. The number one issue I see is they will lose a Domain Controller (DC) and just move on without realizing that without letting the...
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Reading the Dutch magazine called Quest; I saw the following funny quotes about "The Boss": The biggest mistake a boss can make is by not saying: well done! (John Ashcroft, American Politician [1942]) By working 8 hours a day, you might become the boss....
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At the moment ILM 2007 FP1 officially supports: SQL Server 2000 SP3a (and higher) Standard or Enterprise (x86/x64) SQL Server 2005 SP1 (and higher) Standard or Enterprise (x86/x64) I have not seen an official statement yet on some Microsoft page, but...
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When using ILM 2007 Sync Engine and you would like to have high availability you need to think about the all components of the solution. In the case of ILM 2007 Sync Engine those would be: Windows Server ILM 2007 Sync Engine SQL Server ILM Datastore Windows...
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Based upon my post about " Multiple Authoritative Sources for Group Memberships and how about precedence in ILM ", a technology partner and I were setting up and test/demo environment. The idea was as follows. The MGMT app is authoritative for groups...
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If multiple data sources are authoritative for "some-attribute" and all authoritative data sources are considered equal, in ILM 2007 you must configure "Attribute Flow Precedence" for that "some-attribute" where all management agents (MAs) use Rules Extension...
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OCG has a tool called the OCG Documentor for ILM. This tool automatically documents the server configuration, the MA configuration and the code used in the Rules Extensions. It's cool, its' hot, it's accurate and it's fast! There's a free version and...
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If you are using Windows PowerShell Remoting right now with WinRM CTP3 (or lower) on Windows Server 2008, it may break after you apply Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 (W2K8). One of the symptoms is the WinRM service not starting anymore and...
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Until Windows PowerShell CTP2, Microsoft used the CMDlet called " New-Runspace " for setting up a remote session. As of Windows PowerShell CTP3 that was changed to " New-PSSession ". Why? I do not know. Just something to be aware of! REMARK: this is not...
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The latest ILM RollUp Hotfix Package updates both MSDN and Enterprise versions of ILM. This is good because previous hotfixes only update Enterprise versions of ILM. When talking about ILM I mean ILM Provisioning/Synchronization Services (a.k.a. MIIS)...
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