Microsoft have published an excellent document on Single-Label-Domains in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) – Considerations, Migration, and Co-existence. It is well worth a read, even if you are not impacted by this issue. Management Summary An Active Directory domain name that contains one or more labels separated by a dot is referred […]
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Resources and Information.
February 17, 2011 
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Wednesday evening (16th February) saw the release to TechNet and MSDN, the RTM binaries for Service Pack 1. Next week (February 22nd) will see the general availabilty of Service Pack 1. Information that is relevant to Service Pack 1 is documented below. Documentation. Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 and Windows 7 with SP1 Hotfixes and […]
Read moreWindows Virtual PC–Refresh download available.
February 14, 2011 3 Comments
Microsoft have today (14/02/11) released a refresh update for their Virtual PC offering. Windows Virtual PC is the latest Microsoft virtualization technology. You can use it to run more than one operating system at the same time on one computer, and to run many productivity applications on a virtual Windows environment, with a single click, […]
Read moreVirtualising Active Directory Domain Controllers.
February 14, 2011 1 Comment
A question that is often asked of me is “Can we virtualise our domain controllers?” I try to never answer that question, instead I let them answer it themselves, by a process of elimination. Firstly I always feel obliged to quote Microsoft’s KB Article 897615 Microsoft does not test or support Microsoft software running together […]
Read moreLync Server 2010 – Schema Updates (Search Flags and PAS)
December 17, 2010 0 Comments
Microsoft have provided information on the Active Directory Schema extensions for Lync Server 2010. The documentation fails to provide information on the Search Flags and which attributes are added to the Global Catalog. Based on Global Catalog Memberships (IsMemberOfPartialAttributeSet), I have extracted the infomation from the Lync Server 2010 Schema (LDF) files. They can be viewed in XLS format. Lync Server […]
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 moreActive Directory Consultancy
October 14, 2010 0 Comments
Due to a rather odd series of events my plans for work in November and beyond have changed, so if you require any Active Directory Consultancy, please contact me. I am based in Surrey, but have laptop and will travel.
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