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ADDSDeployment module with the -Whatif argument shows incorrect DNS results
Microsoft released a KnowledgeBase article titled “ADDSDeployment module with the -Whatif argument shows incorrect DNS results” This KnowledgeBase article describes unexpected behavior in the...
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Photos of Objectives 2012, the Dutch Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012...
Yesterday, Microsoft Netherlands organized a free event for roughly 800 members of the Microsoft Partner Network, where they launched Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, together with Ingram Micro,...
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Whitepaper: What’s New in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server...
Last month, around the time Microsoft released Windows Server 2012, I published twenty blogposts on the new features in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in Windows Server 2012. Many people...
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Update adds support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server...
I’ve written before on Active Directory-based Activation. This new activation method allows domain-joined Windows 8 clients and Windows Server 2012-based member servers to be activated and deactivated...
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Updated Active Directory Capacity Planning Guidance Available (adsizer.exe Be...
Every good Active Directory Domain Services implementation started with sizing Domain Controllers appropriately for the environment in which they needed to be able to service clients for a period of...
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KnowledgeBase: Event ID 46 and 7023 logged during startup of Windows Server...
Last week, Microsoft introduced a new Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase article, titled Event ID 46 and 7023 logged during startup of Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012. This article...
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Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 7
For a while, Microsoft’s KnowledgeBase article 976424, titled Error code when the kpasswd protocol fails after you perform an authoritative restore: "KDC_ERROR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN", has been available...
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I’ll be hosting a Microsoft Netherlands Datacenter Virtualization IT Camp...
Microsoft has been hosting Datacenter Virtualization IT Camps globally for the past few months. These no cost, hands-on technical training events for IT professionals have been a great success around...
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Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 8
Designing and implementing an Hyper-V environment can be challenging. Placement of Active Directory Domain Controllers requires additional consideration, especially in Hyper-V Failover Cluster...
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Rebooting Windows Server 2012-based Domain Controllers into Directory...
As Christoffer Andersson, a fellow Directory Services MVP explained in the 4th post of his Inside NTDS.dit series, some deletions do not end up in the Active Directory Recycle Bin and as an Active...
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KnowledgeBase: "The service cannot be started" error during Active Directory...
Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 2737880, titled "The service cannot be started" error during AD DS configuration describes an issue where promotion of a Windows Server 2012-based server to a Domain...
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Preventing Domain Controller promotions, cloning and demotions in Windows...
In many organizations, Active Directory is the identity and access corner stone to their networking environments. No wonder then, organizations want extended control and auditing on admins and their...
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Pictures of the December 11 IT Camp with Tony Krijnen
As announced in an earlier blogpost, I hosted a Microsoft Netherlands Datacenter Virtualization IT Camp with Tony Krijnen on December 11, 2012. We had a lot of fun and in this blogpost I’ll try and...
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System Center 2012 ServicePack 1 has arrived for TechNet and MSDN subscribers
System Center 2012 was released in April 2012, well before Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 were released. As a consequence, these Operating Systems weren't supported. This functionality was slated...
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PowerShell, LDIFDE, CSVDE and Protection from Accidental Deletion
When you build test environments regularly, at some point you’ll want to fill your Active Directory quickly. If, for instance, you have a data set with Organizational Units (OUs), user accounts and...
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KnowledgeBase: ADM files are not present in SYSVOL in the GPMC Infrastructure...
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...
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KnowledgeBase: You can only log on as "Other user" when the "Do not display...
Many Active Directory admins consider it unsafe to display the last users logon name on the Logon Screen, since it provides information on naming conventions, etc. to possible malicious people. Others...
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Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack for System Center updated...
On October 6, 2011 I wrote about the updated Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack for System Center. Then, it was updated to version 6.0.7670.0. Today, I want to point you to another big...
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I’m speaking at the Dutch TechDays
I’m very excited to announce I’m listed to speak on the TechDays event, hosted by Microsoft Netherlands on March 7 and March 8, 2013 at the World Forum in The Hague. About TechDays NL 2013TechDays is...
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List of Hypervisors supporting VM-GenerationID
Microsoft introduced the VM-GenerationID in Windows Server 2012, to enable Virtual Machines (VMs) to notice when they’re snapshotted, restored and/or cloned. Active Directory is the first technology to...
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