#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

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

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.

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 🙂

Exchange Schema – What gets changed?

Nice document from MS

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3D44DE93-3F21-44D0-A0A1-35FF5DBABD0B&displaylang=en

You do not have permission to modify the group

Seen this one a few times, seems to be a bug in the windows 2008r2 tools, you get it when you attempt to add to a group you dont have permission on.. looks like japanese characters

why migrate sysvol to dfsr

http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx

Good article on why you would want to migrate Sysvol to dfsr from frs.

AD Documentation Blog

New blog ( to me ) to follow with some good links to AD Documentation.
http://blogs.technet.com/activedirectoryua/default.aspx