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So I received loads of comments asking me what the other DC* log files where for below is an explanation of the DC* log files: DCPromoUI.log - Records detailed progress report of user selections and operations. DCPromo.log - Records summary of critical
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I always have to look up in different locations as to which ports are needed for certain functions like Active Directory, DFSR, Certificate Services, Cluster Service, DHCP Server etc. When you need them handy its always a mission to get to the documentation,
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So here is a list of things that you need to do when thinking and about to make schema changes: Understand the Active Directory Schema Terminology Then read How the Active Directory Schema Works Once you have that understanding you then go through our
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I was chatting to a friend of mine and he was complaining of DCPROMO failing during a promotion of a member server to a domain controller. He could not understand why. With him about 17 000km away from me, I couldn't just jump over and help him. He didn't
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I needed to change the way the DisplayName is automatically formatted in ADUC for a customer and was shocked to know they did not know of the createDialog propery in the CN=409 under DisplaySpecifier(s) in the Configuration partition. Below is a extract
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The ESE can support up to 16 Terabytes, the biggest I have seen 32gigs. I am sure someone can find a way to fill 16 Terabytes though ;) Carlos Magalhaes
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Most companies do not understand how important a PDC is in your environment. They often oversee this role and I think in a way it is our fault to make this single role “more important” than the other roles (** for those die hearts out there please note
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We all know how irritating it is when we try to explain to someone (a customer) which default delegations rights you can set for a user or group on a Active Directory object (lets use a Organizational Unit (OU) for example). First of all we not to friendly
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Tomek has once again shared his vast technical knowledge and posted an excellent "Things to remember when extending the schema" blog post http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/archive/2006/02/09/exending_schema.aspx I posted some comments on it - it was
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So working a lot with customers and their *interesting environments I often get called in to fix blotched permissions on important aspects of Active Directory. Which important aspects you ask well how about THE SCHEMA NC! I have seen this in many news
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Well every day I have more and more respect for my peers, and after a nice long chat (about confidential attributes) with my good friend Tomek who works for MS Poland he decided to write a post about confidential attributes. This feature was introduced
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Doing a lot of work with Kerberos delegation over the past few years and I have encountered many reasons why the delegation won’t work. One reasons so often not thought of or left out is duplicate SPN entries. Now I know its easy to say who would add
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I forced his sorry a$$ to blog cause this guy has so much on his brain bout AD its not funny. Check his VMWARE and DCPromo issue he found AND sorted out! Amazing stuff Jorge, just wish you would put more on there and frequent intervals!!! C
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I love Active Directory so much that I took the task to explain (in detail) to a friend of mine how AD replication works. He is a very bright chap so I thought he would eventually get it. After about a week of explaining to him (I really went into detail)
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(System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ReplicationConnection.ReplicationSchedule.RawSchedule) This is an interesting property, you know the schedual screen you see in Site And Services that looks like this , and which the new DFSR MMC will also have?
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