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• Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner - assess the overall health your Active Directory and network infrastructure.

  Microsoft appear to have released a rather interesting tool! The Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner is designed for administrators who want to assess the overall health of their Active Directory and network infrastructure. The tool identifies common... Posted Aug 03 2009, 12:44 PM by Parris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Best Practice, Windows Server, Active Directory, Administration, [ADUG], Troubleshooting

• A Windows Server 2003-based server may experience time-stamp counter drift if the server uses dual-core AMD Opteron processors or multiprocessor AMD Opteron processors

  A very interesting article if you use AMD processors in your DC's A Windows Server 2003-based server may experience time-stamp counter drift if the server uses dual-core AMD Opteron processors or multiprocessor AMD Opteron processors. When this problem... Posted Mar 16 2009, 05:10 AM by Mark Parris with | with no comments Filed under: Best Practice, Active Directory, Support, KB Article

• Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations

  Microsoft have updated their guidance around Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations, the document can be obtained from. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2eaa45c7-d936-413e-9586-a8bb6ff739d9&DisplayLang... Posted Jan 26 2009, 08:25 AM by Mark Parris with | with no comments Filed under: ADUG, Windows Server 2008, Best Practice, Active Directory, Administration, Security

• *** UPDATE *** Microsoft Support does not recommend a lag site as a disaster recovery strategy - Reasons 123...

  At the end of the Article there are several interesting comments and insights from Guido Grillenmeier and Joe Richards, which makes even more interesting reading. http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2008/10/20/lag-site-or-hot-site-aka-delayed-replication... Posted Oct 20 2008, 06:42 PM by Mark Parris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ADUG, Best Practice, Active Directory, Blogging, Administration, Replication

• Prevent "Fat Fingered" deletion of OU objects.

  Fat fingered administration is one of the main causes of OU deletion and subsequent “Authorative Restores” and the associated aggravation. In Windows Server 2008 in Active Directory Users and Computers there is a check box titled “Protect... Posted Oct 19 2008, 08:39 AM by Mark Parris with | with no comments Filed under: ADUG, Windows Server 2008, Best Practice, Windows Server, Command Line, Active Directory, Blogging, Administration, Fat Fingers

• RODC's and legacy Windows infrastructure

  Whilst researching some of the finer points of Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controller's (RODC's), I have been reading knowledge base article ( KB944043 ) which details what happens if an RODC is in the environment and the legacy Windows... Posted Oct 16 2008, 08:02 AM by Mark Parris with | with no comments Filed under: ADUG, Windows Server 2008, Best Practice, Active Directory, Blogging, Administration, RODC

• Searching for users with the LDAP Filter (objectClass=user)

  This is a must read article for anyone who manages an Active Directory environment. Searching for users with the LDAP Filter (objectClass=user) is generally a very bad idea. Why, because in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 AD, objectClass is not ... Posted Sep 24 2008, 11:46 AM by Mark Parris with | with no comments Filed under: ADUG, Windows Server 2008, Best Practice, Windows Server, Active Directory

• Active Directory - Best Practice - Disk Configuration

  Over the years I have been collating what Microsoft and the community as a whole deem to be best practice, over the coming months I will try to put them all together in one place for easy reference. Disk Configuration When configuring a dedicated domain... Posted Sep 23 2008, 05:39 AM by Mark Parris with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: ADUG, Best Practice, Active Directory