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Post-Graduate AD Studies http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/07/27/post-graduate-ad-studies.aspx Infrastructure Planning and Design http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=732 Active Directory Domain Services Operations Guide http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816807%28WS.10%29.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=16849 Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17157 Active Directory Design Guide by Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8133 Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2: Step-by-Step Guides http://blogs.technet.com/b/mattmcspirit/archive/2009/08/05/remote-desktop-services-in-windows-server-2008-r2-step-by-step-guides.aspx Microsoft has released group policy for beginners. I saw the guide & found really […]

I have seen people through various forums/blogs getting confused : how to configure DNS server in child domain for Parent’s domain name resolutions?  The confusion is, should it point to itself for DNS server address or parent DNS server for name resolution of parent & child domain both? In order to make the life easier […]

Presuming, many of you know & its for them who don’t know, NedPyle(Technical Lead in Microsoft) shares his knowledge base on DS at every Friday known as Friday Mail sack questions/answer, which gives us best opportunity to learn about DS in depth & clear the doubts/myths related Directory services. It occurs on every Friday(if he […]

There are no of Directory service fixes released with Windows 2008 R2 SP1. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2011/01/14/sp1-and-directory-services-what-s-new.aspx Overall 795 public fixes that were rolled into SP1 and they’re all listed here. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=61924cea-83fe-46e9-96d8-027ae59ddc11 So, its time for rolling out windows 2008 R2 SP1 for all windows 2008 R2 running systems, but not before carrying test in your lab environment. […]

I must say Joe is simply brilliant who had developed a wonderful tool which not only cut down the effort required writing script for searching/modifying/deleting object in AD but added lots of add-on & getting the report in such a easy readable format made me fan of his tool. I was thinking but myself using […]

Do you know repadmin is the best tool for Active directory troubleshooting, editing or modifying but few knows there is something called repadmin /experthelp which shows you expert level cmd & it should be used with caution to modify any change in AD. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc811549%28WS.10%29.aspx You might have used basic switches with repadmin like /showreps /showobjmeta […]

One question which I often come across is how to upgrade your domain from windows 2003 to windows 2008 or 2008 R2. Mostly organizations are running their domain controller on windows 2003 x86(32bit), windows 2008 R2 is available only in x64(64bit) & initially when we want to upgrade their domain from windows 2000 to 2003 […]

If you have faced an issue, where you add a domain user to a protected group like administrators,domain admins, enterprise admins, schema admins, account operator etc. & after an hour or so membership disappears & you are scratching your head who did it. You start your findings & come to know its “AdminSDHolder” which reside […]

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