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Archive of posts tagged Active Directory

Extending User Information in AD – 64 Bit support

Back in 2008 I wrote about Extending User Information in AD. Today I came across a blog post mentioning that there is now an unsupported 64 bit version available. More details and download here

Redirect Computers Container in Active Directory

When joining a Computer to an Active Directory domain using the Domain Join UI in Windows or a command line tool such as NETDOM.EXE, by default the computer object is stored in the Computers container which is defined as the default Container in Active Directory for new created Computer objects. The disadvantage of this is [...]

Finding unused User Accounts in Active Directory

As we move towards the end of the year I thought it’s a good time to do some housekeeping activities within the lab infrastructure in which we work on a daily basis. Throughout the year we often create test user and computer objects within Active Directory and of course sometimes we forget to delete them. [...]

What’s new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

In the video below Brian Desmond and Laura talk about the new things that come with Windows Server 2008 R2 AD.

Finding FSMO Role Owners

In preparation of doing some Group Policy related things, I decided to extend my Home Lab AD infrastructure running on Windows Server 2003, with  Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2 domain controllers. Because at some stage I want to get rid of the Windows 2003 Server I also moved the FSMO roles from the [...]