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"Access denied" while promoting RODC in a domain

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:26 PM by tomek
Some time ago one of my friends at MCS had come across a problem while promoting RODC in a multi domain forest. This problem was "access denied" error when new RODC was promoted in one of child domains. This problem was solved thanks to discussion and Read More...
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RODC deployment guide

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 8:42 PM by tomek
Another short download information: RODC Deployment Guide just hit TechNet web pages, so anyone interested in deploying Windows Server 2008 with this role have something to read while servers will do its daily business. This part of this guide deals only Read More...
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RODC compatibility pack for down-level clients

Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:19 AM by tomek
Number of RODCs in a production environment is probably not very high now but many peoples and organizations are thinking about it. For those I have good news that new KB article 944043 was published which is delivering RODC compatibility pack for down Read More...
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How far You can actually push AD?

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 9:46 PM by tomek
Have you ever wondered how many objects You can create in Your DIT (actually this was showed some time ago by ~Eric ) ? Or how many DC is to many in a domain? For some time now on one of MS internal distribution groups group of folks were discussing document Read More...
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How to handle time ...

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:36 PM by tomek
Handling time is somehow challenging task. It can;t be stopped so far so we have to live with schedules and clocks. But this won't be about time physics but more mundane thing. One of my friends has asked me question how to translate pwdLastSet attribute Read More...
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Active Directory technical specification

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:02 PM by tomek
In case somebody missed it - Microsoft has published lately technical specification for its products. Result of some trials before European Union Committee (I still don't like this institution). Among other documents you can find there Active Directory Read More...
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Confidential attributes - Windows 2008 follow-up

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:08 PM by tomek
My post about confidential attributes is one of most popular on this blog. So far it had 2950 views. By the way, most popular posts are about drink attribute in AD (4118 views, taking under consideration subject of this post it is not surprising ) and Read More...
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Can I recover deleted object ... maybe not exactly deleted.

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:56 PM by tomek
Some time ago I've discussed with Jorge some disaster recovery scenarios. At the end of this MSN chat Jorge said - great topic for blog post, and here it is . As always he wrote excelent entry about it and I don't want to repeat these informations. Anyone Read More...
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CN=Infrastructure - what is it?

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:29 PM by tomek
Few days ago on a newsgroup (yes, Usenet still lives :) ) somebody asked question what CN=Infrastructure is and if it can have something to do with GPO problems which are affecting his AD infrastructure. So ... can it be a cause of such problems? I was Read More...
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Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:02 PM by tomek
It looks like we have to remeber new acronym for tool name - ADTD which stands for Active Directory Topology Diagrammer is, as I see it, replacement for older tool known for some people like ADMap. It allows You to build Visio diagram representing Active Read More...
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S.DS and large data sets

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 10:29 PM by tomek
I’m not a great programmer but from time to time I have to write some piece of code – this is mostly related to my day job and MIIS projects or creating ad hoc tools for Active Directory projects. Most of these projects are being created using .NET 2.0 Read More...
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DNS server security problem

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 11:36 PM by tomek
Most of you have probably read new (published few days ago) security advisory with number 935964 published by Microsoft. For those who haven't read it I think it is worth to take a look as this is about security problem in DNS service, which is quite Read More...
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Transitive filter evaluation

Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:29 AM by tomek
Few days ago Ryann Dunny wrote on his blog about new LDAP filter matching rule introduced with SP2 and of course available in Longhorn. This new rule is LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN (with OID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.194). What it basically allows You to do Read More...
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How to install ADAM on Vista?

Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:03 AM by tomek
Quick info - Ryan Dunn shows on his blog how to get ADAM running on Vista machine . Nice tip for all people who gave a try to Vista. Read More...
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How to remove\add workstation from\to domain remotely?

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 11:08 PM by tomek
Today on microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory newsgroup somebody came with a question how he can remove and add workstations to domain, without performing this operation manually on every workstation? Because of some DR situation he had 250 Read More...
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