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ADWS has been released for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003
Ned here. The beta is over, and the new AD Web Service service introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 has been released to the world for downlevel OS's. ADWS allows AD PowerShell to connect to domain...
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Inventorying Computers with AD PowerShell
Hi, Ned here again. Have you ever had to figure out what operating systems are running in your domain environment so that you can plan for upgrades, service pack updates, or support lifecycle...
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Friday Mail Sack – Big Picture Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. Here are this week’s sample of interesting questions sent to AskDS.RID pool infoNT 4.0 and Exchange 5.5DFSR staging quotaQuestionIs there a way to see information about the...
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Friday Mail Sack – While the Ned’s Away Edition
Hello Internet! Last week, Ned said there wouldn’t be a Mail Sack this week because he was going to be out of town. Well, the DS team was sitting around during our “Ned is out of our hair for a few...
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Friday Mail Sack – Tweener Clipart Comics Edition
Hey folks, Ned here again. For those keeping score, you’ve probably noticed the full-on original article content has been a bit thin in the past few weeks. We have some stuff in the draft pipeline so...
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Friday Mail Sack – It’s About To Get Real Edition
Hello Terra, it’s Ned here again. Before I get rolling, a big announcement:On May 16th all the MSDN and TechNet blogs are being migrated to a new platform. This will get us back in line with modern...
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Friday Mail Sack: Shut Up Laura Edition
Hello again folks, Ned here for another grab bag of questions we’ve gotten this week. This late posting thing is turning into a bad habit, but I’ve been an epileptic octopus here this week with all the...
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Using AD Recycle Bin to restore deleted DNS zones and their contents in...
Ned here again. Beginning in Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory supports an optional AD Recycle Bin that can be enabled forest-wide. This means that instead of requiring a System State backup and...
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Friday Mail Sack: Barbados Edition
Hello world, Ned here again. I’m back to write this week’s mail sack – just in time to be gone for the next two weeks on vacation and work travel. In the meantime Jonathan and Scott will be running the...
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Friday Mail Sack: Cluedo Edition
Hello there folks, it's Ned. I’ve been out of pocket for a few weeks and I am moving to a new role here, plus Scott and Jonathan are busy as #$%#^& too, so that all adds up to the blog suffering a...
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Friday Mail Sack: The Gang’s All Here Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again with your questions and our answers. This is a pretty long one; looks like everyone is back from vacation, winter storms, and hiding from the boss. Today we talk Kerberos, KCC,...
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Friday Mail Sack: No Redesign Edition
Hello folks, Ned here again. Today we talk PDCs, DFSN, DFSR, AGPM, authentication, PowerShell, Kerberos, event logs, and other random goo. Let’s get to it.PDCE and user authDFSR full mesh...
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Friday Mail Sack: I Have No Idea What to Call This Edition
Hiya folks, Ned here with a slightly late Mail Sack coming your way. Today we discuss reading event logs, PowerShell, FSMO, DFSR, DFSN, GCs, virtualization, RDC, LDAP queries, DPM, SYSVOL migration,...
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Friday Mail Sack: Goat Riding Bambino Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. I’m trying to get back into the swing of having a mail sack every week but they can be pretty time consuming to write (hey, all this wit comes at a price!) so I am...
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Friday Mail Sack: Tuesday To You Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. It’s a long weekend here in the United States, so today I talk to you tell myself about a domain join issue one can only see in Win7/R2 or later, what USMT hard link...
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Fun with the AD Administrative Center
Hi folks, Ned here again. We introduced the AD Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2 to much fanfare. Wait, I mean we told no one and for good measure, we left the old AD Users and Computers...
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Friday Mail Sack: Best Post This Year Edition
Hi folks, Ned here and welcoming you to 2012 with a new Friday Mail Sack. Catching up from our holiday hiatus, today we talk about:Disabling Administrative SharesMaking Get-ADDomainController...
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Friday Mail Sack: It’s a Dog’s Life Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again with some possibly interesting, occasionally entertaining, and always unsolicited Friday mail sack. This week we talk some:DNS partition absenceControlling DCDIAG event...
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Friday Mail Sack: Carl Sandburg Edition
Hi folks, Jonathan again. Ned is taking some time off visiting his old stomping grounds – the land of Mother-in-Laws and heart-breaking baseball. Or, as Sandburg put it:“Hog Butcher for the World, Tool...
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Saturday Mail Sack: Because it turns out, Friday night was alright for...
Hello all, Ned here again with our first mail sack in a couple months. I have enough content built up here that I actually created multiple posts, which means I can personally guarantee there will be...
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