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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.
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Windows Deployment Services has a long-standing tradition of being part of the Windows Server Operating System. What used to be Remote Installation Services (RIS), became Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Windows
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When your organization is looking to implement Windows Server 2012-based Domain Controllers, your Active Directory environment needs to meet certain requirements. Two of these requirements are the domain functional level and forest functional level. In
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A lot of people have an opinion on the Offline Domain Join (ODJ) functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Active Directory, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Of course, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but sometimes fact checking is useful
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When you build test environments regularly, at some point you’ll want to fill your Active Directory quickly. If, for instance, you have a data set with Organizational Units (OUs), user accounts and groups, you’ll want to quickly import this data. If,
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Windows 8 offers many new features, compared to Windows XP, Windows Vista and even Windows 7. Some of these features are fantastic, but come with a top of the bill hardware price tag. In this blogpost I’ll explain why you’ll need to scour the specifications
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Windows 8 offers many advantages compared to Windows XP, Windows Vista and even Windows 7. However, to take full advantage of all the new features in Windows 8, the hardware you run it on needs to be equipped with specific hardware. The list below details
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I’ve written before on Active Directory-based Activation . This new activation method allows domain-joined Windows 8 clients and Windows Server 2012-based member servers to be activated and deactivated automatically based on their domain membership. I’m
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It’s never been easier to install pre-release versions of Windows and Windows Server, then with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Downloadable ISO files were abundant and could be used for virtual machines on all major virtualization platforms, ISO files
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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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The new Domain Controller Promotion process in Windows Server 2012 with the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard , is a nice new way to promote Windows Server 2012-based hosts to Domain Controllers, since it enables: Remote promotion
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With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduces a new local file system, called Resilient File System (ReFS). This file system can be used as an alternative to NTFS, the file system we’ve come to love and use on our servers in the past years. When it comes
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With the release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, many people are eager to download and install the latest and greatest Operating Systems from Redmond. For people who have deployed one of the pre-release versions of Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and
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Customers often ask me and my colleagues for innovative solutions, based on proven technology. While that sounds like a contradictio in terminus , we always deliver. The key behind these successes is to research and implement new technology in an early
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This week I got the chance to work with some x86 High Performance Computing hardware at the Donald Smits Center for Information Technology (CIT) at the University of Groningen . Their hardware typically contains more than 64 logical processors and TBs
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