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Windows Server 2008 R2 was released on October 22nd 2009. With a slew of new Active Directory features, the newest incarnation of Windows Server was appealing to many customers. But not to some customers. One thing that stood in their way was the inability Read More...
" The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.2 to migrate users, groups, service accounts, Read More...
In this post I explain what you can do with ADMTv3 and what you cannot do. Additionally I also define common migration steps and provide links to other information sources. ADMTv3.1 has been released a few days ago and it now supports Windows Server 2008 Read More...
While upgrading your Active Directory Domain Controllers, Domain Functional Level(s) and Forest Functional Level to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 offer additional functionality compared to previous versions , also a couple of caveats Read More...
You might be running Windows Server 2003 (R2) and Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers at the moment and you're looking to replace these servers with Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers to utilize the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2. You Read More...
There exist two issues/errors that can occur from the same cause, namely an incorrect set "userAccountControl" attribute value on a computer account. For more information about the "userAccountControl" attribute see: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305144 Read More...
As some systems administrators have already found out, on Microsoft Windows Servers some tasks cannot be performed using the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Although multiple vendors have released graphical tools to make these tasks even more tedious Read More...
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...
Last time we discussed how to transition your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008 , which was something a lot of you were interested in. This time I'm talking in-place upgrading Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers to Read More...
You might be running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers at the moment and you're looking to replace these servers with Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers to utilize the new features of Windows Server 2008. You might Read More...
The first part of this series covered some advanced commands to perform specific tasks in Active Directory Domain Services, available since Windows 2000 Server. Thanks to some great feedback on that first post, in this second part I’ll cover some more Read More...
You may have a Windows Server somewhere that's not joined to a joined that contains lots of local user accounts, local groups and of course memberships of local accounts in those local groups. On that server you have permissioned all NTFS permissions Read More...
A while ago Microsoft announced to make the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 and further Windows Server releases 64bit-only. (both x86-64 and IA64) Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core is even the first Microsoft Windows Server to optionally include 32bit Read More...
Ask the Directory Services Team : Five Common Causes of “Waiting for the DFS Replication service to retrieve replication settings from Active Directory” Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog : Content Deployment and the Infrastructure Read More...