Mike from the Active Directory Services Team has posted a good article about deploying Legal Notices and keeping the formatting. You can read it here. 

Hey folks--if you have an interest in AD, MIIS, or all things Microsoft identity related, you should really check out the upcoming Directory Experts Conference, put on by NetPro annually. It is a truly special event, gathering some of the topic AD experts from around the world--usually to some place near Vegas (my favorite conference city ) for a ...

Wouldn't it be nice to get rid of WINS in your environment? But have you stopped to think about why that would be a nice thing? Could it be because of the years of plaque-like build up of erroneous records in your WINS databases? Is it because of the many people with varied thoughts and ideas that have "owned" WINS in your company ...

What’s in a name?  That famous question makes me wonder if names are really very meaningful or even interesting. Names sure are important to the proper working of networked devices. No getting around it, you must have solid working name resolution if you expect to have a working implementation of <insert your application or service ...

If you are anything like me, installing Windows is one of your pain points. It is not that I don’t know how to install Windows, it’s the fact that it does take some time and babysitting. About a year ago I started using answer files to install my production servers. This allowed me to configure the server the way I want to so that I can get the ...

One thing I forgot to mention is that when you are adding additional domain controllers to your enviornment you need to modify the unattend.txt file to allow for this. Again all the information you need is stored in ref.chm file in the Deploy.CAB file in the Support folder on your installation media.Here is a sample of what I sometimes use to ...

Maybe it’s me but I hate doing repetitive tasks. Two of these repetitive tasks are operating system installation and domain controller promotion. In the next couple of posts, I will dive into answer file creation and usage. First I will start with domain controller promotion, and then I will dive into the whole shot at once. To get started ...