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Friday Mail Sack: Carl Sandburg Edition
Hi folks, Jonathan again. Ned is taking some time off visiting his old stomping grounds – the land of Mother-in-Laws and heart-breaking baseball. Or, as Sandburg put it:“Hog Butcher for the World, Tool...
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Purging Old NT Security Protocols
Hi folks, Ned here again (with somefriends). Everyone knows that Kerberos is Microsoft’s preeminent security protocol and that NTLM is both inefficient and, in some iterations, not strong enough to...
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Friday Mail Sack: Get Off My Lawn Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. I know this is supposed to be the Friday Mail Sack but things got a little hectic and... ah heck, it doesn't need explaining, you're in IT. This week - with help from the...
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Saturday Mail Sack: Because it turns out, Friday night was alright for...
Hello all, Ned here again with our first mail sack in a couple months. I have enough content built up here that I actually created multiple posts, which means I can personally guarantee there will be...
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Friday Mail Sack: Mothers day pfffft… when is son’s day?
Hi folks, Ned here again. It’s been a little while since the last sack, but I have a good excuse: I just finished writing a poop ton of Windows Server 2012 depth training that our support folks around...
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Friday Mail Sack: LeBron is not Jordan Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. Today we discuss trusts rules around domain names, attribute uniqueness, the fattest domains we’ve ever seen, USMT data-only migrations, kicking FRS while it’s down, and a few...
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Target Group Policy Preferences by Container, not by Group
Hello again AskDS readers, Mike here again. This post reflects on Group Policy Preference targeting items, specifically targeting by security groups. Targeting preference items by security groups is a...
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What is the Impact of Upgrading the Domain or Forest Functional Level?
Hello all, Jonathan here again. Today, I want to address a question that we see regularly. As customers upgrade Active Directory, and they inevitably reach the point where they are ready to change the...
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AskDS is 12,614,400,000,000,000 shakes old
It’s been four years and 591 posts since AskDS reached critical mass. You’d hope our party would look like this: But it’s more likely to be:Without you, we’d be another of those sites that glow red...
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Improved Group Policy Preference Targeting by Computer Group Membership
Hello AskDS readers, it's Mike again talking about Group Policy Preference targeting items. I posted an article in June entitled Targeting Group Policy Preferences by Container, not by Group. This post...
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Cluster and Stale Computer Accounts
Hi, Mike here again. Today, I want to write about a common administrative task that can lead to disaster: removing stale computer accounts from Active Directory.Removing stale computer accounts is...
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Friday Mail Sack: Super Slo-Mo Edition
Hello folks, Ned here again with another Mail Sack. Before I get rolling though, a quick public service announcement:Plenty of you have downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview and are knee-deep in...
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Friday Mail Sack: Guest Reply Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. This week we talk:CA migration from 1 to 2 tierADAM/ADLDS P2V ABC 123Managing AGPM security filtersMultiple IIS App pools and KerberosAGPM multi-domain comparisonADUC domain...
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Friday Mail Sack: Best Post This Year Edition
Hi folks, Ned here and welcoming you to 2012 with a new Friday Mail Sack. Catching up from our holiday hiatus, today we talk about:Disabling Administrative SharesMaking Get-ADDomainController...
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Friday Mail Sack: It’s a Dog’s Life Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again with some possibly interesting, occasionally entertaining, and always unsolicited Friday mail sack. This week we talk some:DNS partition absenceControlling DCDIAG event...
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Friday Mail Sack: Carl Sandburg Edition
Hi folks, Jonathan again. Ned is taking some time off visiting his old stomping grounds – the land of Mother-in-Laws and heart-breaking baseball. Or, as Sandburg put it:“Hog Butcher for the World, Tool...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Purging Old NT Security Protocols
Hi folks, Ned here again (with somefriends). Everyone knows that Kerberos is Microsoft’s preeminent security protocol and that NTLM is both inefficient and, in some iterations, not strong enough to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Mail Sack: Get Off My Lawn Edition
Hi folks, Ned here again. I know this is supposed to be the Friday Mail Sack but things got a little hectic and... ah heck, it doesn't need explaining, you're in IT. This week - with help from the...
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Saturday Mail Sack: Because it turns out, Friday night was alright for...
Hello all, Ned here again with our first mail sack in a couple months. I have enough content built up here that I actually created multiple posts, which means I can personally guarantee there will be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Mail Sack: Mothers day pfffft… when is son’s day?
Hi folks, Ned here again. It’s been a little while since the last sack, but I have a good excuse: I just finished writing a poop ton of Windows Server 2012 depth training that our support folks around...
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