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I am aware of Federated Services only in passing. In their usual manner, Microsoft has seen to it that there’s enough jargon littering the path to understanding what technology actually does to deter all but the most focused. Luckily, there’s Federated Identity and Microsoft ADFS explained and illustrated with Microsoft Paint!
Get thee hence and be [...]

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Did you know …
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN): The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of an object cannot exceed 64 characters.
Group Memberships: Users, Groups and Computer accounts can be classified as Security Principals and as such Security Principals can be a member of approximately 1015 Groups. This is to do with access token size limitations.
Maximum [...]

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Microsoft has released an updated Active Directory design guide. Although it mentions the healthcare sector, it should provide a basis for designing an AD regardless of sector.
Thanks to Mark Parris for the link.

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Once upon a time, a newbie Exchange administrator installed a Groupwise connector so that his Groupwise users can continue to receive email as the transition away from Novell Groupwise to Exchange.
As it turns out, that connector was only in use for a few days only and now, he doesn’t need this connector anymore.  So pray [...]

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If you know me for any length of time, you’ll know I’m a few rungs below a grammar nazi.  I’m proud of it.  I believe language and its use is what differentiates us from animals; it gives legs to our thoughts and even enables those thoughts.
Another thing you’ll know are my many complaints about the [...]

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How many reboots does it take for a Windows XP machine to screw in a light bulb?
I have no idea, but I know how many reboots it sometimes takes for some of my Group Policies to be applied, including most annoying, the GP-deployed software: two or more!

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I’m lucky, I think.  I’m lucky because in a prior life, I was a UNIX administrator and in fact, a UNIX administrator whose primary job—in at least one of the jobs I held—was managing DNS for several hundred domains.  Because of this, the transition to managing Active Directory was simpler.
I was surprised at the number [...]

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I’m sure everyone knows by now that you can logon to (say) a domain member Windows (XP or Vista) laptop with domain credentials even when away from the domain—without access to a domain controller, to be precise.
Thanks to the How-To Geek, I found out you can increase the number of logons permitted before that laptop [...]

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According to this bit of news, storing pst files on a network drive is a VERY BAD THING™.  Fine, what then?  We store our users archived email on a network drive and we haven’t had too many problems, I wonder if that article covers this as well?  If not, since we don’t have any kind [...]

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Yeah, the whole brouhaha about early Daylight Saving Time is just hot air: according to this report, several large utility companies report the impact is negligible.  Repeal DST.

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