1. How to move the WINS database in Windows Server 2008
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...d button. Click the edit button, followed by add and then type NT SERVICE\WINS into the “enter the object name to select” area and click check names. Accept WINS and grant it full contro...

2. Moving and renaming Active Directory objects in LDIF using LDIFDE
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... sites and forums. Because there’s so little information on the subject of moving and/ or renaming objects using LDIF in Active Directory I thought I’d better get some information about t...

3. Troubleshooting ILM (MIIS) Failed: Filter Rejection (rejected-by-filter) error
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...bsp; Now the actual MA is pretty irrelevant here, what’s important is that when I was previewing an object in the MAs CS I was getting a “synchronisation successful” status, however ...

4. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException Error
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...e and for search-engine reasons. The second error I hit was Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException. In my case the stack trace looked like this: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServic...

5. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException Error
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...onFoundException: The partition filter criteria for management agent "ad-lds" do not include an object with DN "cn=Burt Reynolds,dc=msresource,dc=net" and object classes user. at...

6. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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...his. Here’s how I did it. Get-User -organizationalUnit "Organisational People" | Where-Object | Enable-Mailbox -Database "x64e12dc\Mailbox Database" | Get-Mailbox | Sel...

7. Finding the Virtual Server Hosts in your domain
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...my computer (the host in this case) was having some problems registering a service connection point (SCP) object. The reason for that is nice and easy, I was sitting in my office in the house and I d...

8. Querying for an InvocationID in retiredReplDSASignatures yields more than one result
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...D is written to the new DCs retiredReplDSASignatures attribute. The reason for this is when a connection object is created, the new DC checks its retiredReplDSASignatures to see if any retired invoca...

9. Creating an active directory test lab environment from your production AD forest
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...ot process it is best to disable initial synchronisation (init-sync performs a replication of each of the objects that maintain the OM roles upon startup to ensure that there are no duplicate role hol...

10. Group Policy Restricted Groups
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...th access denied errors. The reason? The only members of the Builtin Administrators group on all computer objects in the OU now contain the following: O...