To provision IM-enabled AD accounts this is what you can do in your provisioning code for the AD MA… (example code snippet from my test/demo environment)   If mventry(''im'').Value.ToLower = ''yes'' Then Dim strSIPDomain As String ...

  The following AD Forest Recovery Guides are available: Best Practices: Active Directory Forest Recovery (W2K) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3eda5a79-c99b-4df9-823c-933feba08cfe&displaylang=en Planning for Active Directory Forest Recovery (W2K3) ...

Get those docs here   Cheers, Jorge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This posting is provided ''AS IS'' with no warranties and confers no rights! * Always test before ...

The Microsoft Active Directory Management Gateway Service lets information technology professionals manage Active Directory Directory Service and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service instances that are running on the same server. The Active Directory Management Gateway Service is available as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and available ...

The Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Branch Office Guide is now live on TechNet and the Download Center! TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd734758(WS.10).aspx Download Center: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=153714   The guide covers the major considerations around deploying RODC's in Branch Office scenarios. ...

At the moment Microsoft does not support ILM 2007 FP1 in ANY virtual environment.   I have not seen an official statement yet on some Microsoft page, but I have read here that ILM 2007 FP1 now is supported to run on Hyper-V. If you want to run it on VMWare, check out these KB articles from Microsoft about that: ''Support policy for ...

When using ILM 2007 Sync Engine and you would like to have high availability you need to think about the all components of the solution. In the case of ILM 2007 Sync Engine those would be: Windows Server ILM 2007 Sync Engine SQL Server ILM Datastore   Windows Server and SQL Server can be made high available through Microsoft Clustering ...

Based upon my post about ''Multiple Authoritative Sources for Group Memberships and how about precedence in ILM'', a technology partner and I were setting up and test/demo environment. The idea was as follows. The MGMT app is authoritative for groups and group memberships, which then flow into AD. Group Membership is established on business ...

OCG has a tool called the OCG Documentor for ILM. This tool automatically documents the server configuration, the MA configuration and the code used in the Rules Extensions. It's cool, its' hot, it's accurate and it's fast! There's a free version and there is a paid for version. You could compare the versions with IIFP and ILM. The free version ...

If you are using Windows PowerShell Remoting right now with WinRM CTP3 (or lower) on Windows Server 2008, it may break after you apply Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 (W2K8). One of the symptoms is the WinRM service not starting anymore and throwing the following error.   The solution? Don't install SP2! J WAIT! There ...