1. Remotely managing the disk management snap-in in Windows Server 2008
(Blogs/paulw)

... you’re working with Server Core, that even when your Windows Server 2008 machines are members of a domain that you get an RPC server unavailable type message when attempting to connect to the D...

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

I was in the middle of writing a post for this blog (on AD recovery and the new database mount tool, if you’re interested) the other day when I needed to make some quick changes to a reanimated

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

...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 is enabled wi...

4. Troubleshooting ILM (MIIS) Failed: Filter Rejection (rejected-by-filter) error
(Blogs/paulw)

...s also nothing to do with my declared connector filters. The problem was basically I’d mistyped my domain name in my XML configuration file, meaning that the distinguishedName for the object wa...

5. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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...o;2” is Exchange 2007, so one of my test labs happens to consist of a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller running Exchange 2007 SP1 (yeah, I know this isn’t really good practic...

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

A customer asked me in passing how does one go about finding the Virtual Server hosts in a domain or an enterprise? Well, it just so happened that I’d been playing with Virtual Server 2005 R2 S

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

...e duplicate retired invocationID is most likely a result of you having performed an IFM installation of a domain controller. When you perform an IFM installation a portion of the process is treated ...

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

...t lab? Summarised, the steps are as follows: Build a virtual server and promote this server to a domain controller in the production environment. This is your development DC. On the de...

9. Group Policy Restricted Groups
(Blogs/paulw)

.... What, exactly, is restricted groups? Restricted groups is a security setting that is configured via domain-based group policy (as opposed to local group policy). You add a group and then configu...

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

...bs Version: 01.00.00vbs Description: An example VB Script that illustrates how to find all RODCs in a domain by querying for all computer objects that have msDS-IsRODC equal to TRUE. ' ******...