1. Moving and renaming Active Directory objects in LDIF using LDIFDE
(Blogs/paulw)

...e about LDIF. In fact, almost all LDIF information out there seems to be found in the RFCs or on the non-MS directory server documentation sites and forums. Because there’s so little informati...

2. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Last Interactive Logon Information Feature
(Blogs/paulw)

...ding through the Windows Server 2008 documentation or attending events discussing Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) you might have noticed that one of the new features that ...

3. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException Error
(Blogs/paulw)

...blog post to keep the entry concise and for search-engine reasons. The second error I hit was Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException. In my case the stack trace looked like thi...

4. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException Error
(Blogs/paulw)

... blog post to keep the entry concise and for search-engine reasons. The first error I hit was Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException. In my case, the stack trace looked ...

5. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
(Blogs/paulw)

...tiate between mailbox-enabled users and users with the RecipientType property of the Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Management.User class. If a user is mailbox-enabled then the value of this prope...

6. Finding the Virtual Server Hosts in your domain
(Blogs/paulw)

...ished, but it did make me realise that there’s the answer to this persons question –query Active Directory for the Virtual Server 2005 SCPs... In summary, service connection points ar...

7. Querying for an InvocationID in retiredReplDSASignatures yields more than one result
(Blogs/paulw)

...Keywords: Classic User: ANONYMOUS LOGON Computer: rwdc.idmgmt.int Description: Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services has been restored from backup media, or has been c...

8. Creating an active directory test lab environment from your production AD forest
(Blogs/paulw)

The question of how can one create a copy of the existing production active directory environment for testing purposes is a frequent one in the forums and groups. There are several ways of doing t

9. Group Policy Restricted Groups
(Blogs/paulw)

...ything to do with the memberOf [back-link] attribute that you’ll find on security principals in Active Directory (this isn’t really designed to be applied to domain-based groups but can, o...

10. Find all read only domain controllers (RODC) in the domain
(Knowledge Base/Code)

...e = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") Dim result : result = verifyError(Err) If Not result Then printDirectoryInfo(dse) On Error Goto 0 ' testing only Dim hostname : hostname = dse.get(&q...