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, and introduces a Status tab for the domain level. This tab is shown in the screenshot below: ...

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 As the title suggests, Error 8240 (0x2030) means ...

Last month, the Active Directory Documentation Team really made an effort to bring together a library of troubleshooting-oriented KnowledgeBase articles. This month, this work is continued with two more updated guidance-oriented KnowledgeBase articles to troubleshoot Active Directory issues. Also this month, a few new Active Directory-related ...

A new year, a new slew of Microsoft KnowledgeBase articles! The Active Directory Documentation Team really put its effort in expanding the library of guidance-oriented KnowledgeBase articles, next to the normal amount of new and revised KnowledgeBase articles. Here’s the overview for January 2012: Informational KnowledgeBase articles ...

Most people spend the short days and long nights of December with loved ones. At Microsoft, December is a vacation month for a lot of employees as the end of December marks the first half of the fiscal year and targets have mostly been met. For the Active Directory team, however, December marked the fourth Active Directory-related Security ...

It’s not very uncommon for Microsoft to issue a patch for a problem in Active Directory technologies (including Active Directory Domain Services, Lightweight Directory Services, Certificate Services, Rights Management Services, Federation Services and Group Policy). In this blog post, let’s look at some statistics:    Domain ...

On Tuesday November 13, 2011 Microsoft, in its monthly Patch Tuesday, released a Security Bulleting addressing an issue with Active Directory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first need to acquire credentials to log on to an Active Directory domain. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the ...

On Tuesday November 8, 2011 Microsoft released a Security Bulletin addressing an issue with Active Directory. The problem is the LDAP over SSL (aka LDAPS) implementation in Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) does not examine Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs). ...

A big month! The Active Directory team has been busy documenting and getting rid of a couple of bugs. Also, a lot of existing KnowledgeBase articles were upgraded to version 2.0. New KnowledgeBase articles First, let’s take a look at what’s new: 2553863 Event ID 12293: 0x80072338 error registering KMS host in DNS You’ll receive this error ...

Microsofts new fiscal year started on July 1st. In the first month of Fiscal Year 2012, Microsoft released seven Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles. Read on for some interesting tidbits on Active Directory and find out if you’ve been gentle to your Active Directory: 922706 How to use Certificate Services Web enrollment pages ...