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Wanna read something cool about RODCs, Hyper-V and PowerShell?

Nathan Muggli, a PM at Microsoft in the AD product group blogged about a cool way to deploy RODC using Hyper-V and PowerShell in an automated way. Read it here . Cheers, Jorge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:25 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments

RODC Compatility Pack for Legacy OSes

Microsoft released a KB article that describes issues/symptoms with legacy OSes and the Windows Server 2008 RODC including possible workarounds. You can find that KB article here (Description of the Windows Server 2008 read-only domain controller compatibility Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:16 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Auditing in Windows Server 2008

To audit stuff in Windows Server you first need to configure a main event category to be enabled for "Successes" and/or "Failures". This must be done through a local GPO on the server or through a GPO in AD which then is linked to an OU containing the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:19 AM by Jorge | 1 Comments

A new gang in town – Server Core (W2K8)

You probably already know it by now. If you don't, where the heck have you been lately? Windows Server 2008 provides two installation options. The first is Windows Server WITH a GUI (Full Server) and the second one is Windows Server WITHOUT a GUI (Server Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:17 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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Parsing SDDL Strings

You probably know similar output like: [RFSRWDC1] C:\>SC SDSHOW NTDS D:(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;SY)(A;;CCLCSWLORC;;;BO)S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;WD) But, what the heck does it mean? SDDL parsing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:11 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) – “Adminpak” for Windows Vista SP1

Microsoft has released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista. Remember, to be able to install RSAT on Windows Vista, Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is required and must therefore already be installed! Download locations can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:07 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Auditing when members of specific groups logon to a Vista or 2008 computer

Have you ever had the need to audit when members of specific groups logon to a computer? If yes, unfortunately this is only possible out-of-the-box in both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The feature is called "Auditing Special Groups" and you Read More...
Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 5:23 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Security Auditing Events for Vista and 2008

Always interested to know which security auditing event IDs exist for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008? Well, get it here then! Cheers, Jorge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:04 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 – Reanimating Objects and Restoring additional Information

This post is an updated version of the following post and now contains RTM information: Windows Server Longhorn – Reanimating Objects and Restoring Additional Information Reanimating Objects and Restoring Additional Information Basically when restoring Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:29 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments

Windows Time Service

In addition to a previous post a did, I would like to point you to a Microsoft blog about the Windows Time Service (W32TIME) . That blog contains interesting information. My favorite posts on that blog are: Keeping the Domain On Time (Explaining how Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:57 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Delegating Monitoring/Stopping/Starting services on Servers

Delegating permissions to manage services on servers is not the easiest thing to do. You can do it from the command line or through a GPO in the "System Services" node. Either way you MUST take the current configured permissions into account, otherwise Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:40 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 have RTMed!

The beta periods for both Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 have closed. Both products are final and have actually RTMed as of today! More information about the RTM can be read here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 5:34 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 RC1 released to the public

Windows Server 2008 is available as a release candidate. At this moment the latest build available to the public is RC1 (v6001.17051.071121-2029). You can download it here for testing purposes. The x64 versions contain also Hyper-V (it does depend on Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 11:04 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Are you using at least 1 W2K3 SP1 DC in your AD domains?

During one of the AD Q&A sessions at TechED IT Forum I was kind of surprised that people did not know about a simple "save you're a$$ method" when recovery of objects was needed and especially those objects that contain back-links. The recovery of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:39 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Windows Server Virtualization

From TechED IT Forum in Barcelona… During the keynote a lot of announcements were made. One of them being… Windows Sever Virtualization got its final name. It will be a Windows Server Feature called "Hyper-V". The following are some of its features: Up Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 3:12 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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