#Windows8 #ActiveDirectory What’s New

Some interesting stuff but perhaps not the complete reworking that might have happened

What’s new in Windows Server 8 Active Directory

Virtual stuff should make people happy and looks like no excuse not to virtualise anymore because of the USN roll back issue.

Going to post some more once i have had a chance to play.

#Exchange2010 SP2 – Needs a #Schema Change

Just seen that the exchange team have announced that Exchange 2010 SP2 will need a Schema Change 😦

More details here – http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/17/announcing-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx

Active Directory Troubleshooting Survival Guide

this looks interesting

“This page categorizes the Active Directory troubleshooting information that is spread all over the Internet, so you can get to resource you need to solve your specific issue.”

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/active-directory-troubleshooting-survival-guide.aspx

#Lync Powershell Cheat Sheet

From the powergui guys

http://powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=3091

looks pretty useful and Lync seems to be very popular at the moment.

Kerberos and NTLM Accessing Resources

Some more quality posts from MVP Jorge

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2011/02/13/accessing-a-resource-with-the-kerberos-authentication-protocol.aspx

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2011/02/13/accessing-a-resource-with-the-ntlm-authentication-protocol.aspx

Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility

This tool is very useful for configuration of Hpyer V Remote Management. Allows workgroup client to attached to server for example.

Taken from the msdn site

HVRemote reduces the manual configuration steps needed for Hyper-V Remote Management down to a few simple commands.

HVRemote can diagnose common configuration errors.

HVRemote is locale neutral, although output is in English only.

HVRemote can configure all combinations of workgroup and domain joined clients and servers.

Active Directory to Active Directory synchronization. (Quick Connect Express for Active Directory)

This looks pretty cool , its a free tool from Quest to sync AD to AD or AD to AD LDS

http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/quickconnect-express-for-active-directory.aspx

I havent checked it out yet but looks good for UAT work etc.

Retiring Oclist.exe

From the server core blog

For those of you that used Server Core in Windows Server 2008 you may be familiar with the Oclist.exe tool. This tool was included in Server Core to provide a way to obtain a list of roles and features on Server Core and their installation state. In Windows Server 2008 R2 a new tool, Dism.exe, was introduced for adding/removing roles and features and included the capability to provide the list of roles and features as well as installation state by running:

Dism /online /get-features /format:table

In the Server Core documentation we changed to using Dism.exe for Windows Server 2008 R2. Because Dism.exe is an integrated command line tool for all tasks related to optional roles and features and provides additional formating options for its output, in the next release we are planning to remove Oclist.exe from Server Core.

Windows Server Core Configurator V 2.0

Just noticed this on Jorge’s blog and is something that i think helps ease the pain and concern around using Server Core. Basically its an enhanced version of the codeplex application for Windows 2008 R2 Server Core called Windows Server Core Configurator.

You can manage computer settings, control panel settings etc from a GUI on a Server Core which has no GUI 🙂

Test Post – From Blog

Test content – confirming twitter feed