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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
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In Windows Server 2012, the Active Directory team has consciously blocked some Server Roles and Features from coexisting with the Active Directory Domain Services Role. Two months ago, I blogged on the incompatibility between the Fail-over Cluster Feature
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Many Active Directory admins consider it unsafe to display the last users logon name on the Logon Screen, since it provides information on naming conventions, etc. to possible malicious people. Others change the default Logon Screen to accommodate for
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Windows Server 2012 introduces a new Group Policy feature: ‘Infrastructure Status’. This feature is present in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on Windows Server 2012 and in the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) package for Windows 8,
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Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 2737880, titled "The service cannot be started" error during AD DS configuration describes an issue where promotion of a Windows Server 2012-based server to a Domain Controller and demotion of a Windows Server 2012-based
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Last week, Microsoft introduced a new Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase article, titled Event ID 46 and 7023 logged during startup of Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 . This article relates to the Windows Time ( W32Time ) service and
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Microsoft released a KnowledgeBase article titled “ ADDSDeployment module with the -Whatif argument shows incorrect DNS results ” This KnowledgeBase article describes unexpected behavior in the PowerShell Cmdlets within the ADDSDeployment PowerShell module
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Microsoft has issued a new KnowledgeBase article that addresses an issue when you use the Install-ADDSDomain PowerShell Cmdlet from the ADDSDeployment PowerShell module remotely to create a child domain. This issue is related to PowerShell remoting and
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Microsoft Knowledgebase article 2743345 with title " The system cannot find the file specified" Adprep /gpprep error, or tool crashes " describes an issue where the Group Policy Preparation fails or crashes. The main reason for this behavior is the Domain
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In KnowledgeBase article 2737129 , titled Group Policy preparation is not performed when you automatically prepare an existing domain for Windows Server 2012 , Microsoft describes the preparation steps in the new automatic Active Directory Domain Services
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Microsoft introduced KnowledgeBase article 2738697 with the title "The server is not operational" domain controller configuration error when you configure a server by using Server Manager . Alternatively, they could’ve named this KnowledgeBase article
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Recently, Microsoft released KnowledgeBase article 2743367 with the ominous title Adprep "not a valid Win32 application" error on Windows Server 2003, 64-bit version . When you’ve been reading this blog, you might have already guessed what might be causing
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Remember in the Beta of Windows Server 2012 (then called Windows Server “8”) you couldn’t specify the Windows Server 8 Forest Functional Level (FFL) in the new Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard when you created a new forest? My fellow
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The Microsoft marketing department has decided to label a few of the incredible Windows features in Windows 7 and Windows 8 as ‘To Go’. Prime examples, of course, are ‘BitLocker-To-Go’ (encryption of removable drives) and ‘Windows-To-Go’ (running Windows
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Below are the Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles, released and updated in between March 1 2012 and March 31 2012: New KnowledgeBase articles 2680976 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error - 8204 ERROR_DS_NO_SUCH_OBJECT
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