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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
Active Directory is a proven technology that has been around since Windows 2000 Server. Some Active Directory environments have been around since that time, while some others have even been around ever...
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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
As already mentioned in the previous blog post on RID Improvements in Windows Server 2012, Active Directory environments are sometimes cathedrals of Microsoft technology; they’re big, they’re old and a...
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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
Windows Genuine Advantage and Windows Activation has been hunting admins trying to make their legally purchased volume licenses seamlessly work for them for years. About volume activation While Windows...
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Reusing a Role Installation XML file in Windows Server 2012 to install the...
Ranging from multi-server management to over 2400 PowerShell Cmdlets, Windows Server 2012 delivers on the promise of standards-based management and automation capabilities. Part of the new Domain...
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8
If you want to remotely manage a Windows Server-based infrastructure from a Windows-based workstation, you will need the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). If you want to use Windows 8 to...
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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
With all the fancy features in Active Directory, I almost tend to forget it was originally an x.500 directory services, offering LDAP connectivity. Although today this is less evident, LDAP is...
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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
Previously in this series we covered the challenges surrounding RID Depletion in Active Directory. This time around, let’s talk about DNTs. About DNTs Distinguished Name Tags (DNTs) are integer...
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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft introduced a new Active Directory feature called Offline Domain Join (ODJ). This feature allows for clients to be joined to an Active Directory...
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Three useful ways to get started with Group Policy in Windows 8 and Windows...
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 offer a lot of new functionality. Of course, a lot of this functionality can be centrally managed with Active Directory through Group Policy. But how do you find the...
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New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part...
For the last years, we’ve been modeling the business into group memberships and their associated access control lists. For some organizations this has even led to changing the way they performed...
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Options that are only available when you promote Windows Server 2012 to a...
The new Domain Controller Promotion process in Windows Server 2012 with the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard, is a nice new way to promote Windows Server 2012-based hosts to Domain...
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Adprep "not a valid Win32 application" error on Windows Server 2003, 64-bit...
Recently, Microsoft released KnowledgeBase article 2743367 with the ominous title Adprep "not a valid Win32 application" error on Windows Server 2003, 64-bit version. When you’ve been reading this...
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My presentation on Group Policies in Windows Server 2012 is now online (Dutch)
On September 20, the Dutch Networking User Group (NGN) organized an event on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. During this day, several speakers provides inspiration, information and guidance on...
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"The server is not operational" domain controller configuration error when...
Microsoft introduced KnowledgeBase article 2738697 with the title "The server is not operational" domain controller configuration error when you configure a server by using Server Manager....
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Pictures of the Technical Track of the October 11 “Samen Slimmer” event
Yesterday was a special day. For the first time, my employer organized a customer event for over 300 people at the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam on a piece of technology not even available mainstream....
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Group Policy preparation is not performed when you automatically prepare an...
In KnowledgeBase article 2737129, titled Group Policy preparation is not performed when you automatically prepare an existing domain for Windows Server 2012, Microsoft describes the preparation steps...
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"The system cannot find the file specified" Adprep /gpprep error, or tool...
Microsoft Knowledgebase article 2743345 with title "The system cannot find the file specified" Adprep /gpprep error, or tool crashes" describes an issue where the Group Policy Preparation fails or...
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Expiration dates on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Pre-release versions
About two months ago, I wrote a blog post on determining your Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 pre-release version. With that information you could then determine the (possible) in-place upgrade...
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How to determine the Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 version on your USB...
It’s never been easier to install pre-release versions of Windows and Windows Server, then with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Downloadable ISO files were abundant and could be used for virtual...
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"Access is denied" error message when you create a child domain remotely by...
Microsoft has issued a new KnowledgeBase article that addresses an issue when you use the Install-ADDSDomain PowerShell Cmdlet from the ADDSDeployment PowerShell module remotely to create a child...
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