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Directory Services
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At the Dutch Microsoft TechDays, my employer introduced ICT Expert Talks: a professional film booth, where we interviewed speakers, attendees and staff. You can find these interviews on YouTube in the ICT Expert Talks channel . In this blogpost, I’ll...
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Last week, Microsoft Netherlands organized the 2013 TechDays at the World Forum in The Hague, where both Developers and IT Professionals enjoyed two days of sessions, networking opportunities and catering. On March 6th, I visited the event space, together...
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When your organization is looking to implement Windows Server 2012-based Domain Controllers, your Active Directory environment needs to meet certain requirements. Two of these requirements are the domain functional level and forest functional level. In...
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A lot of people have an opinion on the Offline Domain Join (ODJ) functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Active Directory, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Of course, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but sometimes fact checking is useful...
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As you might know, I work together with the fantastic people at the Dutch Microsoft subsidiary in a team to help them achieve the maximum amplification of their IT Professionals content. One of the goals we set, was to get people to use the Microsoft...
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In Windows Server 2012, the Active Directory team has consciously blocked some Server Roles and Features from coexisting with the Active Directory Domain Services Role. Two months ago, I blogged on the incompatibility between the Fail-over Cluster Feature...
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Microsoft is getting ready to release Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Internet Explorer 10 is built into Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 by default and Microsoft vowed to bring it to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2...
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Microsoft introduced the VM-GenerationID in Windows Server 2012, to enable Virtual Machines (VMs) to notice when they’re snapshotted, restored and/or cloned. Active Directory is the first technology to put the VM-GenerationID to good use. The following...
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I’m very excited to announce I’m listed to speak on the TechDays event, hosted by Microsoft Netherlands on March 7 and March 8, 2013 at the World Forum in The Hague. About TechDays NL 2013 TechDays is an international series of Microsoft events,...
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On October 6, 2011 I wrote about the updated Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack for System Center . Then, it was updated to version 6.0.7670.0. Today, I want to point you to another big update for the Active Directory Domain Services Management...
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Being on the Windows Phone bandwagon since Windows Phone 7 and enjoying my Generation 1 chassis (the Samsung Omnia 7) every day, It wasn’t hard deciding what Phone Operating System I wanted on my next phone. Enticed by its build quality, its 8.7 megapixel...
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Many Active Directory admins consider it unsafe to display the last users logon name on the Logon Screen, since it provides information on naming conventions, etc. to possible malicious people. Others change the default Logon Screen to accommodate for...
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Windows Server 2012 introduces a new Group Policy feature: ‘Infrastructure Status’. This feature is present in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on Windows Server 2012 and in the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) package for Windows 8,...
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I’ve been a production Windows 8 user since the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Like you, I’ve been through the stages of Kübler-Ross with the new Windows 8 Interface (formerly known as ‘Metro’). At first I started cluttering my Start Screen with the built-in...
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Millions of Windows PCs are infected by scareware each year. Often, this kind of software fakes to be an anti-malware program. These rogue virus scanners convince Windows users their PC is infected and they need to pay to clean it. Microsofts free Security...
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If you have a hub and spoke site topology, it may not be a good idea for certain (Or all) spoke dc’s to be advertising, via dns services, the ability to provide authentications services. If you have a remote site with a dc that fails it is usually best...
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Today I received an e-mail message titled “ Congratulations 2013 Microsoft MVP! ” This means I’ve been renewed for the fourth time. 2013 will be my fifth consecutive year as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the...
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The world around us changes fast. Just 13 months ago, I wrote on the availability of the 64bit DirSync tool . Today, I’m relaying the message from the Office 365 team on their intent to end support on the 32bit DirSync tool to keep an on-premises Active...
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Now that 2012 is in it's final hours, I wanted to look back professionally but also personally. It's the human thing to do (Fellow UC Architects Michel de Rooij and Micheal van Hoorenbeeck also made a retrospective) What were the interesting technical...
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Episode 14 is now available for download! It is hosted by Steve Goodman and co-hosts were John Cook, Serkan Varoglu, Johan Veldhuis and Stale Hansen. Christmas Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Version 2 Issues with the Windows Management Framework on Exchange 2010...
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When you build test environments regularly, at some point you’ll want to fill your Active Directory quickly. If, for instance, you have a data set with Organizational Units (OUs), user accounts and groups, you’ll want to quickly import this data. If,...
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Next to Content Switching (which I recently wrote a post about ), Citrix Netscalers can also do URL Rewrites. This enables us to simplify the OWA URL. First, be sure the Rewriting option is enabled by going into System, then Settings and choose Configure...
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System Center 2012 was released in April 2012, well before Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 were released. As a consequence, these Operating Systems weren't supported. This functionality was slated for System Center 2012 with ServicePack 1, among other...
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Next to F5 , KEMP technologies and a lot of other network load balancing vendors there’s also Citrix with it’s Netscaler brand . Especially when an environment also has Citrix servers, it could mean that well scaled Netscaler devices are present and can...
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In the previous part one and two of this series, I’ve discussed using PSTs, Exchange Personal (on-premises) and On-line Archiving as well as third party solutions. In this last post I will discuss the use of Retention Policies and Mailbox quota’s in order...
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