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Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) is a (new) windows service that enables remote management of any local directory service instance using WS-* (Web Services) protocols and is only present on domain controllers running Windows Server 2008 R2. In a non...
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture . The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide...
Good news! The Microsoft Account Lockout Tools still work as expected on a Windows Vista SP1 with RSAT. What do you need? Just the same 2 files as before! After you've downloaded ALTools.exe from the Microsoft Download Center , double...
The other day, I got a mail informing about when to expect "Part 2" of my previous post on " Active Directory Domain Services: UI changes - Part 1 ". And he was right... I totally forgot about that blogpost... stuck in my drafts now...
The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration/structure using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange 200x Server topology...
Fine-grained password policies - described in a previous post - is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that can be used to specify multiple password policies and apply different password restrictions and account lockout policies to different sets of...
As with Windows Server 2003, you can use restored backup media to minimize replication traffic during AD DS installation on a server that is running Windows Server 2008. You can use this installation method to install a new (additional) domain controller...
To improve the installation and management of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Windows Server 2008 includes some changes in the user interface of the "Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard" (dcpromo), but also to the...
Restartable Active Directory is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that allows administrators to stop and (re)start the "Active Directory Domain Services" service by using the services snap-in (services.msc) or via the command line, to perform...
In Windows Server 2008, you can now set up AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) auditing with a new audit policy subcategory ( Directory Service Changes ) to log old and new values when changes are made to AD DS objects and their attributes. However...
A read-only domain controller (RODC) is a new type of domain controller in the Windows Server 2008 operating system. An RODC provides the ability to easily deploy a domain controller that hosts a read-only replica of the domain database/partition . The...
[This information is based on the Windows Server 2008 June CTP and is subject to change...] Windows Server 2008 provides a way to define different password and account lockout policies for different sets of users in a Windows Server 2008 domain. In Microsoft...