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It was just over two years ago that I was chatting with Charles Carroll about starting a community blogging site. He always pushed me to run community sites and one of my first being the successful ADSI and Directory Services Programming group that I
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So I was doing some tests at one of my favorite customers in the world ;) they allowed me to share the information of a test on replication of a domain controller on a different site on a single forest single domain infrastructure. The key here is that
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So I have been really scarce lately. Firstly I apologize I should have posted and let everyone know what has been happening and where I have been. So a few things have been happening and they are in order: I have been deploying a large network including
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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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Very interesting post by one of our Windows Vista Backup product group members. It shows how they use the virtual machine technology to enable you to backup and restore real easy and real quick with Windows Vista. This is a built in feature and you don't
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For those of you that have used MSCONFIG to check what is running on your system, which services are starting up, what programs are running at startup and what your boot.ini looks like, you would know that its missing something. Its missing a tab with
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I have this irritation with SQL 2005 and remote connections. Maybe its something I am doing incorrectly (which is very possible). Everytime I install a new SQL 2005 server and then try using an application that I have developed to connect to that SQL
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So as I was going along promising customers that the Password Portal would be released with MIIS SP2 I was caught like a fish out of water. The Password Portal was pulled from SP2 and the customer was not happy at all. I had promised them a Password Portal
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Well I promised that I would show the work that has been done with the ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers). I have heard so many times how difficult it is to add a new tab to an Active Directory objects Dialog box in the ADUC MMC. To tell you
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I have noticed recently that this community blogging server has been receiving some serious hits. This is great news, it’s good to see the community sharing their views, knowledge and working so closely together. Now that the search, gallery and blogging
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Alot of the Active Directory MVPs that blog on this community blog site, have asked me how they can put the MVP log on their blog. The image below shows how you do it. Each step is depicted by a number (in the image): Step 1 When you logged in and at
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Being taught the hard way is sometimes the best way. It was pointed out to me by someone really close to me that I should think before I post. For those of you frowning about what the hell I am talking about: I made a really immature and stupid blog entry
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