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I am performing domain migration and I ran into the following problem error in the migration logs for a user account: 2011-07-29 13:37:35 WR...

When designing Active Directory sites and services, usually you decide which Active Directory site objects you want to place your domain con...

I am performing cross forest migration from 2 AD forests, multiple domains into a new AD forest. When I added one of the domains within a so...

In this article we will be having a look at how the Log On To list is populated. This is the list in windows XP/2003 where users can select ...

I went and attempted to disable SID Filtering over some trust links to prepare for SID History during domain migration using the following c...

Today I stumbled across a fantastic little application called Sync Toy. Perfect for home users who want to backup data to a external drive ...

Below is a VBS Script by MVP Richard L. Mueller which I found very useful. It shows you how to connect to Active Directory using alternative...

Simple Script to list all OU's and Sub OU's using a VBScript On Error Resume Next Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2 Set objConnection = Cr...

When configuring the DNS zones to replicate to all domains in the forest, instead of all domains just in the current domain the following er...

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager Service Pack 1 Feature Pack 1 (ILM 2007 SP1 FP1) can be used to pre-stage the user accounts with the ap...

I was using ILM (Identity Lifecycle Manager) to synchronize users cross forest to prepare for cross-forest mailbox moves using the sample co...

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 has now been officially released by Microsoft as of June 28th 2011. The official KB for this release is...

In this post I'm going to address a very common problem many new Exchange 2010 Administrators face. When running commands such as Test-O...

I have setup a Windows Server 2008 R2 server running LDS. I have an LDS Instance running on 10001 (LDAP) and 20001 (LDAPS). I added a user ...

Active Directory user accounts have an attribute called userAccountControl which is used to control items such as Account Lockout, Account D...

I'm trying to import the following LDIF file into an LDS Instance using LDIFDE. dn: CN=SVCLDAPQuery,CN=Users,DC=testinstance,DC=ADAM cha...

I'm trying to import the following LDIF file into an LDS Instance using LDIFDE. dn: CN=SVCLDAPQuery,CN=Users,DC=testinstance,DC=ADAM cha...

I am performing ADAMSync from an Active Directory domain to an LDS Instance. My AD Domain Partition is called DC=Domain,DC=Local. My LDS I...

Back when LDS (Lightweight Directory Services) was called ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) there was a console known as "ADAM S...

When setting up windows networks a DMZ must be created. This DMZ cannot contain any PC's that are a member of your internal Active Direc...

In this post we will look at the Alternate Witness Server - what is it? The Alternate Witness Server provides a replacement witness server f...

In Exchange 2007/2010 you can set SMTP message size quota's in 3 locations: - Global Settings (Set-TransportConfig) - Receive Connectors...

After joining a new Windows Server 2008 R2 member server to the domain I was not able to log in, even with a Domain Admin account. The follo...

Exchange 2010 RTM only supported Continuous Replication File Mode. Exchange 2010 SP1 now supports Continuous Replication Block Mode. Ok so w...

In case you missed TechEd North America 2011, or were there and missed some sessions, you can download slide decks and watch presentations f...