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December 2005 - Posts

"5th Christmas Day"

This year we invented "5th Christmas Day"! ;-) "5th Christmas Day" is on december 29th. Menu: * Invite a ton of friends into your home * Each one prepares a dish or brings over drinks.... Result: one heck of a party! Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:56 PM by Jorge | 4 Comments
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Me, myself and my new addiction

Just before christmas, my girlfriend and I got ourselves an XBOX. We bought the old version, not the XBOX 360. Damn, this thing is cool! Years ago, I owned a Commodore 64. Right after that thing was hooked with the TV for the first time, a new "addiction" Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:58 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Happy holidays to everyone!

I just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays! A merry christmas to you all and that you all have a good start for the new year! Be careful with the fireworks! ;-) Cheers, Jorge Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:53 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Follow-up on "It works on physical hardware and it does not in VMware virtualization software"

Remember me writing about not being able to promote a new DC into the forest as an additional DC for an existing domoain or as a DC for a new child domain? (read more about it at: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2005/11/14/60.aspx ) Well, Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:35 AM by Jorge | 3 Comments
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Netpro selected me as a speaker!

As you may have heard, Netpro is organizing the Directory Experts Conference again in march 2006 (26-29) ( http://www.dec2006.com/ ). This time it is in Henderson, NV USA at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa. <QUOTE> The Fifth Annual Directory Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:02 AM by Jorge | 4 Comments
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R2 is available through MSDN for subscribers

As you may have heard R2 was released on 6 dec. 2005. At that same moment it was not yet available through MSDN. I just looked and Microsoft has made it available through MSDN for everyone that is subscribed. So it is time to rebuild the test environment Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:06 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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How to increase the rIDAvailablePool of the domain?

For some reason (e.g. disaster recovery) you want to increase the rIDAvailablePool of the domain. So here how to do that. * Start LDP * -> Connection -> Connect * Enter the FQDN of the RID Master FSMO or leave it blank if LDP is run on the RID Master Read More...
Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 6:45 PM by Jorge | 3 Comments
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Is it a bug in the DFS Management MMC or is it me?

OK, lets say you are using the new DFS Management console and you create a new DFS namespace (old name: DFS root) assign DFS namespace servers (old name: DFS root servers). After that you create a DFS folder (old name: DFS link) below the DFS namespace Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:48 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Reading messages in the future? ;-)

As you may know Outlook categorizes messages by date... * Three weeks ago * Two weeks ago * Last week * Yesterday * Today * and... yep, I was supprised by the TOMORROW category! I got this message on december 7th 2005. See the picture ;-) ( http://blogs.dirteam.com/photos/jorge/images/243/original.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:48 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Which DCs are used when promoting a server to a DC?

When running DCPROMO on a server to promote it to DC two possibilities exist what query is used by the server to locate a DC... --> The server is a STAND ALONE SERVER and is going to be promoted to a DC: In this case the server does not know to which Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:19 PM by Jorge | 11 Comments
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Cleaning up the AD metadata of a DC or an AD domain

The demotion of a DC was not successful or the DC crashed or was removed without ever demoting it, as it should, to a non-DC. For that reason its metadata still exists in AD and needs to be removed! See the articles below for how to cleanup the metadata Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 8:16 PM by Jorge | 7 Comments
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Distributing Printer Connections in R2 along with Group Filtering

Before the summer vacation when R2 was publicly release as a beta2 I started working and testing with it. On of the things I played with was the distribution of Printer Connections along with Group Filtering. To get distribution of printer connections Read More...
Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 1:04 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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