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Mark Parris (Microsoft MVP) has a post about reducing client authentication loads on a DC.
Essentially, to reduce the number of client authentication requests processed by a DC, adjusting the server’s DNS weight and/or priority will do the trick. Specifically, the number of client authentications is decided by the weight while to ensure the DC does [...]

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This is major good news from the MS folks: I recently discovered it is possible to automate metadata cleanup, required after the forced removal of an AD Domain Controller.
Even better, on DCs running Windows Server 2008, deleting the DC’s computer object in ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers MMC) initiates the cleanup process automatically.
More information [...]

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According to a report released by the Yankee Group [www.yankeegroup.com] titled 2007-2008 Global Server Operating System Reliability Survey, based on a poll of 400 corporate managers, executives, and administrators in 27 countries, both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 are the new downtime twins.
AIX experienced a mere 36 minutes of downtime over the course of [...]

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It’s been a while since I did any serious web server administration so it didn’t surprise me that the following debacle has until recently unsullied my brow.
Note: from everything I’ve heard, only certificates from Verisign have this problem. Why? I have no clue.
What is this problem? It has to do with renewing [...]

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A colleague of mine was looking through the Group Policy settings of a domain we manage when he found a Group Policy Object (GPO) named “New Group Policy Object” and freaked out.
After realizing this was probably a slip up—one of the reasons why administration by clicking can be a Bad Thing™—he wanted to know how [...]

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The word is in, we’re going to Exchange 2007.
I don’t know if I should be scared or excited about the prospect, but I have an idea I’ll have both those feelings before too long in part because Exchange 2007 requires new hardware and incorporates a completely new and different design and operational philosophy.
This Redmond Magazine article [...]

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Many of you know there is a change-a-coming in the Daylight Saving Time (DST) set up for March.  Microsoft has thoughtfully made the following webcast available to help us.
Which is all well and good, but Keeerist, why do we have to make additional changes to Exchange mailbox calendars, etc., etc.?  Huh?  Why can’t one magical [...]

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I just got a call from a customer complaining about a 500 error on OWA.  At first, by rote, I thought she’s been putting in the wrong URL and so, I walked her entering the proper URL and she was still reporting the same error.  Just to make sure, I logged on to her account with my [...]

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Yes, simply amazing.
At the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog, peopled by Microsoft employees presumably, I found a post titled “Remove Exchange Attributes vs. Delete Mailbox” in which the poster, Jason Dool (Hehe… yeah, he’s a Dool) discussed the functional differences between removing Exchange attributes and deleting an account’s Exchange mailbox.  One would think this was obvious [...]

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What do you think you’d do if you saw this event show up on the active node of your Exchange server cluster?

Event ID: 55, Source: Ntfs, Category: Disk
I bet you wouldn’t free that great, no?  Well, have no fear, ladies and gentlemen!  All that means exactly squat.  From this KB article, the resolution is [...]

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