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  • Wiki Page: Configuring Windows Update to Use a Proxy Server

    Occasionally, on networks that have specific firewall and proxy configurations, Windows Update clients are unable to contact the Microsoft Update servers on the Internet. There are several ways to deal with this problem. The first is to deploy a WSUS server on the LAN and have the clients download...
    on16 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: AD CS PKI Design

    Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Design Guide The Windows Server® product line provides a variety of secure applications and business scenarios based on the use of digital certificates. Before you can use digital certificates, however, you need to design...
    on15 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Answerer/Moderator Requests on TechNet and MSDN Forums

    This page exists to track requests from the community to become Answerer/Moderators. The policies are leaning toward new people being added as Answerers first, rather than Moderators. Then some Answerers are made into Moderators when the need exists. Answerers are able to mark answers, which is the...
    on15 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Semantic Database Analysis in Windows Server 2008

    Operating System Windows Server 2008 Problem To check the Active directory database integrity using Semantic Database Analysis. Solution Checking the database for integrity means that the database is checked at a low (binary) level to look for...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Offline Root Certification Authority (CA)

    A root certification authority (CA) is the top of a public key infrastructure (PKI) and generates a self-signed certificate. This means that the root CA is validating itself (self-validating). This root CA could then have subordinate CAs that effectively trust it. The subordinate CAs receive a certificate...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Server Posterpedia v2 Available in the Windows Store

    In today’s post, Martin McClean and Brian Lich talk about their Windows Store app, Server Posterpedia. If you’re interested in learning how Microsoft technologies work—for example, Windows Server, Exchange Server, Windows Azure, and SharePoint Server 2013—this is the Windows Store app for you. ...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Windows Server 2003 R2: "The active directory is rebuilding indices please wait..." Message While Logging

    Table of Contents Problem Operating system: Solution Problem Error "The active directory is rebuilding indices please wait” in Windows Server 2003 Operating system: Windows 2003 server Solution The server may show the message “The Active Directory...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: AD RMS Quick Deployment Guide

    Table of Contents Step 1: Prepare for AD RMS Step 2: Install and configure the AD RMS server Step 3: Test AD RMS This guide is intended to help you quickly set up a server running the Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) server role in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: How Do I Provision Users to Active Directory Domain Services

    One basic requirement for an identity management system is the ability to provision resources to an external system. This guide walks you through the main building blocks that are involved in the process of provisioning users from Microsoft Forefront™ Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 to Active Directory...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Use the PowerShell Best Practices Module to Configure Servers

    Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the Windows PowerShell Best Practices module to audit configuration of servers. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well, tonight is the Charlotte Windows PowerShell user group. We are doing a mini version of the Scripting Games...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Configuring MaxConcurrentAPI for NTLM Pass-Through Authentication

    This troubleshooting topic for the IT professional describes how to configure MaxConcurrentAPI to remediate Net Logon service authentication bottlenecks beginning with Windows Server 2003. Introduction This topic presents the following concepts for the Net Logon service and NTLM pass-through...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: The Fun in DNS Debug Logging - Read the DNS Debug Log

    Table of Contents DNS Debug logging To Read the DNS Debug Logs DNS Debug logging Why would you use DNS' debug logging? The answer is to track down problems with DNS queries, updates or notification errors. In my case we were in a process of transitioning windows 2003 domain controllers...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Windows Server 8 Beta: Installing Active Directory Domain Services Role

    Because Windows Server 8 Beta has a lot of new things in administration interface so you may feel it is quite difficult to initially use. In this article, I will write very basic step-by-step guide in installing Active Directory Domain Services role: In the Server Manager, click Manage > Add...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Active Directory: Disaster Recovery with a System State Backup Step by Step

    This topic discuss a disaster recovery of Active Directory to a virtual machine. Let's think you got a System State backup and your Domain Controller fail.. whats your next step ? When I tell fail it's not the Operating Software but the hardware itselft. In that kind of scenario, I better tell...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Active Directory Attributes in the ADUC GUI Tool

    When we want to perform ldap queries or create object delegation in Active Directory, we must know which attribute behind in the fields. Here are attributes for Active Directory Users and Computers console fields. Table of Contents User General tab User Address tab User Account tab User Profile...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Active Directory Forest Recovery

    Here is an article with an Active Directory recovery scenario. You can play as what this scenario on a model for you become familiar with the procedure for Recovery of AD (pending to have a true crash). The original article language was French and I translated into English. Table of Contents...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: SRV Records Registered by Net Logon

    For troubleshooting information, see Troubleshooting SRV Record Registration . SRV Records Registered by Net Logon _ldap._tcp.DnsDomainName. Allows a client to locate servers running the LDAP service in the domain of DnsDomainName. _ldap._tcp. SiteName...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Find Users Expiration Date with Richard Mueller's Generic ADO Search

    Today I had the need to find a list of users with an expiration date in my A.D. environment. An additional information I was interested in was not only to know if the user had an expiration but also the date in which the user actually expires. I know there are a lot of ways to have the information...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: User Profile Synchronization Service Not Starting in SharePoint 2010

    I had a difficult time to get user profile service synchronization started. Following are the errors encountered to me when I tried to start the synchronization manually as well as through SharePoint. Errors Encountered Windows could not start the forefront identity manager synchronization...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: How to Create Forest Trust Using PowerShell

    Recently I got request to create forest transitive trust (with forest-wide authentication) using script. My first steps aimed at NETDOM utility, but after some unsuccessful test I found this: Important Netdom cannot be used to create a forest trust between two AD DS...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Moderator's Guide to the TechNet Wiki

    Welcome to the moderator's guide to the TechNet Wiki. If you are interested in contributing, see the Contributor's Guide to the TechNet Wiki .
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Contributor's Guide to the TechNet Wiki

    The TechNet Wiki aspires to be a trusted, respected source of information for the IT Professional, developer and broader community of people who work with Microsoft products and technology. It will succeed only if you contribute in an openly, transparently, and considerate way guided by the Wiki Code...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Troubleshooting Adprep Errors

    Table of Contents Troubleshooting errors with Adprep.exe Insufficient credentials to run the command Operations master role holders are not accessible Schema conflicts Adprep was unable to complete because the call back function failed You receive an error when you run adprep /forestprep that says “Adprep...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: How to Enable Telnet Client in Windows 7

    [ This article is posted at ElMajdal.Net website : http://elmajdal.net/Win7/Enabling_Telnet_Client_in_Windows_7.aspx ] Telnet Client is used to connect to remote machine by using the Telnet protocol. For example, I'm an old fashion IT guy, and I still like to configure Cisco Switches/Routers...
    on14 Jan 2013

  • Wiki Page: Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 Test Lab

    For the Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 test lab, you install, configure, and demonstrate the features and capabilities of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 , including virtual desktop infrastructure and collections and session virtualization, publishing, and licensing....
    on14 Jan 2013
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