1. So how do I know what drive letters apply to what disks in Server Core?
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...;t immediately available to someone faced with a command Window, i.e. a Windows Server 2008 Server Core user. When faced with that lovely C:\Documents\paulw-a> prompt, how does one go about as...

2. Moving and renaming Active Directory objects in LDIF using LDIFDE
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... move the object into. The following simple example LDIF file will move the (recently re-animated) user object “CN=Charlie Parker” from the “OU=Recovered Objects, DC=corp, DC=co...

3. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Last Interactive Logon Information Feature
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... enabled. This information is presented immediately upon hitting enter after you supply your username and password. Hitting enter again results in the desktop being presented. This inform...

4. Troubleshooting ILM (MIIS) Failed: Filter Rejection (rejected-by-filter) error
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...nding that and looking at the Connector Add “node” the MA was my AD MA, the object type was user and the status was Failed: Filter Rejection. I was only seeing this “error&rdquo...

5. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException Error
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...this: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException: Object "cn=Peter Griffin,ou=users,dc=msresource,dc=net" does not have a parent object in management agent "ad-lds&...

6. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException Error
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...; do not include an object with DN "cn=Burt Reynolds,dc=msresource,dc=net" and object classes user. at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.CSEntryImpl.CommitNewConnector() at Mms_Metave...

7. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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...a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 running ILM and all its pre-requisite bits. Anyway, I created some sample users in the AD using good old CSVDE (as I wanted to use the names of characters from novels I&r...

8. Automating Windows Server 2008 installations
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...ion phase in square brackets [installation phase], e.g. [auditSystem] | Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup | UserAccounts | AdministratorPassword means the “AdministratorPassword” property of t...

9. Querying for an InvocationID in retiredReplDSASignatures yields more than one result
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...5 Event ID: 1109 Task Category: Replication Level: Information Keywords: Classic User: ANONYMOUS LOGON Computer: rwdc.idmgmt.int Description: Active Directory L...

10. Creating an active directory test lab environment from your production AD forest
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... You wish to create a test lab that mimics the production environment, particularly in the area of OU, users, computers, groups and group policy. How does one go about implementing the test lab? Su...