Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1): Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 with SP1 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server® 2008 R2, Windows Server® 2008, or Windows Server® 2003, from a […]
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Backspace does not work in the GPMC or in AGPM
February 11, 2011 
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Last year at TechED Berlin, I was complaining to the MDOP team that the backspace did not work in the GPMC when AGPM was installed. It transpires the issue is not with AGPM per se, but with the GPMC. Yesterday, whilst looking through the new KB’s I discovered this one: BACKSPACE or arrow keys do […]
Read moreActive Directory Domain and Forest Functional Levels
December 7, 2010 3 Comments
All though Active Directory has been available for over ten years, one question that comes up time and time again at customer sites is “What do the Forest and Domain Functional Levels do and should I set them?“ After validating their Active Directory my answer is usually yes, but what do these levels enable within Active Directory? […]
Read moreWindows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 – Beta Service Pack 1 (What else does it do?).
July 14, 2010 0 Comments
Yesterday (12th July 2010) at the Microsoft Partner Convention, Microsoft made publically available the beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 (in English, French, German, Japanese and in Spanish). Service Pack 1 Beta Information. Microsoft for sometime have stated that the only major new features in Service Pack 1 […]
Read moreResultant Set of Policy (RSOP) not working.
June 24, 2010 1 Comment
Recently I had a couple of issues with Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) and enabling it to work for IT teams who were not Administrators. One issue I had was that every time Resultant Set of Policy was run for users with delegated permissions (and on further testing “Domain Admins” too) they all received an […]
Read moreActive Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) 3.2 Documentation
June 23, 2010 0 Comments
Microsoft have released ADMT 3.2 and this guide details how to use the Active Directory Migration tool to migrate users, groups, managed service accounts and computers between Active Directory domains in different forests (interforest migration) or between Active Directory domains in the same forest (intraforest migration). It also shows how to use ADMT to perform security translation between different Active Directory […]
Read moreActive Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) 3.2 is now available.
June 19, 2010 3 Comments
Microsoft have released to the web ADMT 3.2. ADMT v3.2 can be deployed to migrate users, groups, service accounts, and computers between Active Directory domains in different forests (inter-forest migration) or between Active Directory domains in the same forest (intra-forest migration). Unlike the previous version 3.1; ADMT 3.2 can run on Windows Server 2008 R2 server. ADMT 3.2 cannot […]
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