Automatic creation of user folders for home, roaming profile and redirected folders.
Here is great step-by-step instructions on creation of Home, roaming profiles, and redirected folders. I need to review this and see what impact it would...
Active Directory Health Checks
We plan on having an outside company come in and do a AD/Exchange health check before we work on our domain migration project. This article...
Two ways to set the time to the PDC emulator
Using w32tm: To sync time: Go to the PDC emulator role for the forest, open a cmd prompt and type w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:peers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes...
Top 10 Security Settings to make directly after Installing Active Directory
Most of these tips are very basic. But we all need to start somewhere. The initial settings that you should make to get Active Directory...
Group Policy Best Practice Analyzer
These Best Practice Analyzers are some great tools from Microsoft. I've used the Exchange one before and its found issues we didn't even know about....
Active Directory & Exchange Schema Versions
This is some incredibly usefully information. I'm posting this just for my own need. If you are running into environments and working on aspects of...
Transitioning your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008
We've talked about starting from scratch again with our AD forest. This post has some great information about the new features of a 2008 AD...
Updated Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides
AT work we've talked about creating a brand new forest and moving all 5 of our current domains (same forest) into it. So we started...
Which KB articles resolve the most Directory Services issues?
This article by askds contains a lot of good links related to directory services. Hi, Craig here. It can be frustrating to call support only...
Can you rename a Windows 2003 Domain?
We've been talking about doing this. We currently are using the same domain name as our external DNS name for all the domains in the...