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 Technical Specification. And now everything is clear about AD ... isn't it :). Time to ...

Finishing download review from the end of the year - some missed news, this time from Quest. Quest has published free download for ADAM management pack for MOM 2005. If Your organization utilizes both ADAM and MOM this might be interesting thing to try.

If You are looking for some picture to hang on the wall next to Your desk or in server room maybe You will want to get Active Directory jigsaw (PDF). This picture was originally published in Technet Magazine. It contains jigsaw of AD components and dependencies. It looks good especially when it is printed on large format.

Microsoft has published new Vista tool called Group Policy Log View. Its name tells everything about its purpose. Vista's GPO processing takes advantage of new event logging subsystem Crimson and stores a lot of data about GPO processing in event logs. This tool allows You to create TXT, XML or HTML report from these events. Report can ...

Most of people dealing with Active Directory knows or heard of Active Directory Migration Guide. With version 3 being current, this tool allows to migrate data between Windows NT\Active Directory domains, helping in migration and domain restructuring scenario. Microsoft has published ADMTv3 migration guide document which should be useful for ...

Microsoft has published on Downloads Office 2007 ADM templates for downloads. As Office 2007 will be launched soon and may start to show up in our networks maybe it is worth to take a look at ADM possibilities before this will happen.

 In case that someone who is reading this blog is not subscribed to joe's blog or notification list (unlikely) I want to inform that two of joe's tools, which are ultimate ... great tools for AD get updated. These two tools are: AdFind - which allows You to search for anything You want to in AD. AdMod - which allows You to ...

Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Windows Server finally was published on Microsoft Downloads. As most of us is aware of gain in performance which can be achived using 64-bit hardware platform as a DC base it's good to have official document about it. This white paper compares performance of Windows 2003 acting as a DC on 32 and 64-bit ...

Just after Christmas another gift came out from Microsfot- ADAM SP1 war released for download. ADAM SP1 is integrated with standard setup package which installs ADAM service. At this moment it is available for x86 and x64 platforms, english language only.