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How to deploy 64 bit R2 DCs in a 32 bit W2K3 AD environment

Let's say your AD consists of only 32 bit W2K3 (SP1) DCs without R2. Now you want to introduce a 64 bit R2 DC. As you know, you need to extend the AD schema to support the R2 features. When using the 32 bit version of R2 you just fire up ADPREP from the Read More...
Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 9:30 AM by Jorge | 1 Comments

NTLM and Kerberos authentication explained the easy way

Kerberos authentication is always used when: Both endpoints are at least W2K or higher AND In case of a trust, Kerberos is supported Kerberos is supported within an AD forest and between AD forests when a forest trust is used. In all other cases NTLM Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:29 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments

Migrating stuff with ADMTv3

ADMTv3 has been out for a while and is the free Microsoft Migration Tool available for use (besides other small tools that can help you during your migration like NETDOM, SUBINACL, ROBOCOPY, etc.). It can be downloaded here Besides the tool you can also Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:46 PM by Jorge | 7 Comments

The Infrastructure Master FSMO and the GC role

This is so simple and people still ask questions in the newsgroups about it. It has been answered sooooooooo many times it almost hurts typing this over and over again.... Concerning the Infrastructure Master FSMO role and the GC role look at it from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:41 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments