When troubleshooting Active Directory the first place that most people look is the Windows Server event logs, the event logs can provide a wealth of information about the state of an Active Directory, but by default the recorded information is limited to the logging of critical and error events. To enable detailed diagnostic logging there [...]
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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 moreWindows Operating System Internals–Training in London.
August 21, 2010
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Back in April as part of the UK TechDays week, I arranged an evening session with Dan Pearson of David Solomon Expert Seminars on Windows Crash Dump Analysis and Windows Performance Troubleshooting and Analysis, everyone who attended thought it was an excellent session and very worthwhile. Dan is back in London this October to teach [...]
Read moreActive Directory Explorer v1.4 – Now Available
June 25, 2010
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Microsoft have released version 1.4 of the Sysinternals tool ”Active Directory Explorer “. AD Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit permissions, view an object’s schema, and [...]
Read moreResultant Set of Policy (RSOP) not working.
June 24, 2010
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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 moreUK TechDays and the Red Screen of Death.
April 16, 2010
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This week saw the UK have its first ever TechDays event (TechDays deliver content similar to that of TechED, but are free and a lot smaller). As part of the TechDays week Microsoft asked community leads such as myself and Mark Wilson to organise Microsoft technology “fringe events”, but what topic do we chose for the fringe event [...]
Read moreLDAP Limits – Are now hardcoded in Active Directory.
April 12, 2010
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On ActiveDir.org a couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion around the fact that Microsoft now have hardcoded LDAP limits for Active Directory. This may not directly affect you in a Windows 2003 forest – but if you have changed your LDAP Policies to make a poorly written application work in Windows Server 2003 then [...]
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