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The best AD seminar on TechEd, fundamental concepts within Active Directory and the impact of cloning & virtualization upon domain controllers, domain members and Windows in general. Dean Wells (Program Manager in MS)also discuss how to best leverage virtualization, and how to both mitigate problems and to avoid occurrences in the first place. The below [...]

Do you know password filter, if not take a look. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms721766%28v=vs.85%29.aspx  

Few times, it is mandatory to reset the security permission on the all the files & folder after messing around with ACL or with GPO to set an ACL, restraining users from making any changes. Even though machine is disjoint from the domain, but same settings of ACL still remain & we get access denied [...]

Due to numerous benefits of DFSR over FRS, its time to move to DFSR, considering the acurate steps are followed else things can become awry to your environment. The issue with FRS was like Journal wrap error, blotting, inconsistent change notification etc, where as these issues has been fixed & greatly improved into DFSR. You [...]

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 is on the way & it is known that all the testing of bugs has been completed. TechNet/MSDN customers get access to the download on Feb 16th. For others the date is set to be 22nd Feb not far. Take a look at the enhancements in SP1. [...]

When a company is acquired by another company or the two gets  merged, then two different business units come together to function. After acquiring the company, your boss asks  to rename the acquired infrastructure(Domain/Website etc.) according to the current company standard, but renaming the internal AD domain is not as easy as it looks. When [...]

Scavenging is the important process for removal of stale records from DNS to keep it healthy & fit. Lot of people have doubts, whether it has to be enabled or not & find themselves in confused situation what is exactly scavenging & how it works. I have seen a question, if i create a  static [...]

The different DAG design have been discussed. Take a look at below link to know more. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979781%28printer%29.aspx http://blogs.kraftkennedy.com/index.php/2010/09/07/exchange-2010-notes-from-the-field-multi-site-dag-design/  

By default, any domain users can add up to 10 machines to a domain, the reason is Every domain has a default setting for ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota value 10. You can modify this object in directory to prevent the domain user from joining the machine into domain by using ADSIedit tool to prevent this behavior. WARNING Using [...]