I always have to look up in different locations as to which ports are needed for certain functions like Active Directory, DFSR, Certificate Services, Cluster Service, DHCP Server etc. When you need them handy its always a mission to get to the documentation, here is a document that has all these ports in one article that you can always ...

Just published on the CFS teams Blog :-   How client failback works in a DFS Namespace New Single Instance Store whitepaper available   Both very good reads and very well done, kudos to the CFS team!!!!!   Well done guys. C

I was asked which components extended the schema with Windows Server 2003 R2 I always miss a small detail so below is a table explaining which components extend the AD schema for Windows Server 2003 R2:   DFS Replication ●        Upgrade the domain controller with the schema master with R2 schema ...

For those of you that have been attending my talks at the South African Windows 2003 Server R2 launch (at TechDays 2006) hosted by us, will enjoy the fact that we have two FREE (yes thats right free) Windows 2003 Server R2 training courses! The two topics - well on exactly what I have been talking about ADFS and DFSR Click here to start ...

So I have been doing the TechDays 2006 DFSR and ADFS talks, and during my DFSR presentations when I tell the audience that there few tools to migrate FRS environments to DFSR I get a huge moan.   Now I was having a chat with Shobana Balakrishnan (she is the PM for DFSR ) today about this, and when I in Redmond last we spoke about a script ...

Right so I have FRESH off the press a copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with 25 CAL’s. Now how do you get it from me?  You write a full review of Windows Server 2003 R2 , all the features and how they can benefit organizations OR how to install them and get them working.  Once you send this article to me I will decide ...

The team just re-launched the TechNet and MSDN virtual labs running on Virtual Server 2005 R2. Check out these sites if you want to test the new software, such as SQL Server 2005 integration services, Windows Server R2 or Visual Studio Team System, in a sandbox environment. Each session is 90 minutes and comes without install, ...

So Mr Guru (Jorge), has posted a brilliant article on “Duplicating FSRM quota and file screen templates and settings to multiple servers”, he figured this out on his own and as I said before he is a brilliant AD mind, I recommend this read for those of you that don’t want to do duplicate work on 100000000000 servers. This was ...