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Active Directory Domain and Forest Functional Levels
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...
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Updated Microsoft Server Visio Stencils.
Microsoft have released a Visio Stencil update for Lync Server 2010. You may not be looking to deploy Lync Server 2010, but the stencil pack does contain some updated and new Microsoft server stencils...
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Backspace does not work in the GPMC or in AGPM
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....
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Microsoft Test Lab Guides
Microsoft for a sometime now have been publishing via the Microsoft Downloads website documents called either: TLG:xyz or Test Lab Guide:xyz. These guides are intended to deliver a set of documents...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Resources and Information.
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...
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Microsoft support policy for large (4K) sector drives in Windows
Microsoft have just released this interesting KB article on large sector drive support in various versions of Windows. Over the next few years, the data storage industry will be transitioning the...
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Clean up after installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008...
After installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, by default you have the ability to uninstall the Service Pack and rollback to the previous state. If you are confident that you...
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Threats and Countermeasures Guide: Security Settings in Windows 7 and Windows...
If you are looking to understand what the security policies in Windows 7 and 2008 R2 mean and how they can impact your environment, then this guide is a must read. Threats and Countermeasures Guide:...
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Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2 – Updated
I have previously written about this, but feel it’s worthy of another mention. Microsoft have hidden away on their WHDC (Windows Hardware Developer Central) website, an excellent document on...
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MaxTokenSize – Change of recommendation from Microsoft.
Microsoft have stated for numerous years that anyone with Kerberos authentication issues often due to users being in multiple groups and commonly known as Token Bloat should increase the MaxTokenSize...
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