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Common Challenges when Managing Active Directory Domain Services, Part 2: Unnecessary Complexity and Token Bloat
A lot of organizations run Active Directory Domain Services as their Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. Their Domain Controllers unlock access to the simplified view on the organization’s processes, structure and systems, so people can perform Read More...
I’ll be staffing at TechEd North America 2013
A while ago, I received a mail from TechEd. In it, the TechEd North America Staff Communications team congratulated me with being selected to participate as product subject matter expert, learning guide or ambassador at TechEd North America 2013! For Read More...
Common Challenges when Managing Active Directory Domain Services, Part 1: Security
In many organizations Active Directory Domain Services is the top tier in access management. Access to systems, information and connections, often, is governed by information in Active Directory. User objects and computer objects play a big role in this Read More...
Active Directory Services and their System Center Management Packs
As you might be aware, every Microsoft technology has the requirement to be manageable through PowerShell and System Center. Manageability through System Center is done through Management Packs. (MPs). While I discussed the PowerShell manageability stories Read More...
Active Directory Services and PowerShell manageability
As you might be aware, every Microsoft server product has the requirement to be manageable through PowerShell and System Center. The PowerShell requirement is formulated as part of the Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) . With PowerShell available as a Read More...
Active Directory Services on Server Core installations
Windows Server 2012 is a major leap forward for Server Core installations of Windows Server. Not only are Full installations of Windows Server convertible back and forth to Server Core installations without reinstallation, a whole slew of new Server Roles Read More...
Identity and Authentication in the cloud: Office 2013 and Office 365 (Poster)
Last week, Microsoft released a poster, detailing identity and authentication for Office 2013 and Office 365 . It details the scenario where you would provision accounts in Microsoft's Online Services environment (Scenario 1) and also details the scenario Read More...
Best Practices for Securing Active Directory
Today, Microsoft has released a document, detailing the Best Practices for Securing Active Directory Domain Services . The document contains 22 best practice recommendations to assist organizations in enhancing the security of their Active Directory installations. Read More...
Applicability of Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) and group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs)
Recently, one of my readers approached me with some questions on Managed Service Accounts (MSAs). From our discussion, I realized a lot of people may be unclear about the applicability of Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) and group Managed Service Accounts Read More...
I will be speaking at the UK VMUG Meeting in London
I just received confirmation on speaking at the UK Virtual Machine User Group (VMUG) Meeting in the Hilton Doubletree hotel in London on Tuesday May 21, 2013. I will be delivering my session on virtualization-safe(r) Active Directory and Domain Controller Read More...
KnowledgeBase: You cannot use redirusr.exe and redircmp.exe in the Windows Server 2008 DFL on Windows Server 2008
In the past years, I’ve found many systems and many errors. Today, I’m sharing behavior in Microsoft Windows Server that had me frown and chuckle. A bug in Active Directory code I’ve been grateful for, since it illustrates the nature of software. Note: Read More...
MS013-032 Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (Important)
It’s not often, that Active Directory Domain Controllers get security updates. The Active Directory Domain Services Server Role is one of the most robustly written code, as I pointed out in an earlier blogpost on Statistics on Active Directory-related Read More...
Meet Azure Active Directory: Your Cloud-based Identity Service
Today, Microsoft made Azure Active Directory generally available (GA). This means it is ready for production use. Azure Active Directory enables organizations to provision their users with a single identity that can be used to access applications that Read More...
KnowledgeBase: Unable to install Windows Server 2012 Essentials with domain suffixes .net, .corp, .com, .org etc
Microsoft has released KnowledgeBase Article 2830511 , detailing a bug in the Installation Wizard of Windows Server 2012 Essentials, that prevents you from installing the server as a Domain Controller for an Active Directory domain with a public top-level Read More...
New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 21: Resource SID Compression
In the earlier 20 blogposts on new features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012 , I’ve covered most of the main stream new features. Today, I’m covering a lesser known feature: SID Compression . While this feature has been around Read More...
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