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2007 Microsoft Office system – free elearning courses

Below is an e-mail I received and I thought I posted here on my blog everyone interested can benefit from it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With the launch last week of Beta 2 of the 2007 Office system, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:16 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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RID Master FSMO explained

AD uses a multimaster concept, which simply means that changes and additions can be performed on each DC, assuming the correct permissions have been delegated. That is also true for creating security principals like user-, group-, computer- and iNetOrgPerson Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:26 AM by Jorge | 3 Comments
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Domain rename impact

In the following post you can find information about performing a domain rename: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2005/11/24/154.aspx In addition to that you will find here WHAT a domain rename impacts. As you can see it is NOT something you Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:18 AM by Jorge | 5 Comments
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TechNet Webcast: Longhorn Server Manager

Interesting in following a webcast about Longhorn Server? Well, here is your chance! This time it is about the Server Manager Utility which aids in installing, configuring and managing server roles. TITLE : Installing, Configuring, and Managing Server Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:34 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Large Integers and VBS or BATCH

For a script I was writing, I needed to work with large integers. Example code in VBS was to compare very large numeric numbers: ----------------------------------------- Dim LargestValue LargestValue=0 AR = Array("134234","22342399999999999994","9","555555555577698","6","5") Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:47 AM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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Delegation of control...how?

A tip for delegation (per organization this may depend, but this should give you a hint how to do it): ALWAYS use separate admin accounts to perform admin tasks Define the admin roles in your organization Define all the admin tasks performed by those Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:20 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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AdminSDHolder

Every hour, the Microsoft Windows domain controller that has the primary domain controller (PDC) emulator operations master role verifies the ACLs on members of these administrative groups and compares them to the ACL on the AdminSDHolder object. If the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:43 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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Kicking NTFRS to start replicating after SYSVOL non-auth. restore

Have YOU not had the situation where: You needed to do a non-auth. restore of AD and the SYSVOL on a DC OR You needed to do a non-auth. of the SYSVOL (BurFlags=D2) on a DC AND That DC was across a site link at another location AND No other DC was available Read More...
Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 5:09 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Lingering objects

For those of you who have experienced lingering objects on a number of DCs/GCs will be able to tell that lingering objects are a real PITA. For those who don't, trust me they are! Why? If you have them on a number of DCs/GCs, it takes quite a lot of manual Read More...
Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 8:46 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): CleanLingeringObjects.zip

Windows Server 2003 R2 Schema Stuff and Version Identification

A lot of people on the newsgroups have been having problems with the introduction of W2K3 R2 based DCs into their existing AD environment based upon W2K or W2K3. Main problem was that people were using the ADPREP version on the first CD of the R2 distribution Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 06, 2006 3:36 PM by Jorge | 6 Comments
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A$$HOLES on the internet

Did you know I HATE those freakin' *&^(*#&^%(**&_)(&^*(^(* a$$holes that misuse other folks servers, systems and applications to distribute SPAM just because of the crap they want to sell or because they want to steal information! Get Read More...
Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 11:20 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Example NT4 to AD upgrade

So you want to in-place upgrade your current NT4 domain to an AD domain and keep the same NetBIOS domain name. This is AN EXAMPLE how to do it. Make sure you change anything that is specific to your environment and check everything has been taken into Read More...
Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 8:44 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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