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Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Windows Server finally was published on Microsoft Downloads. As most of us is aware of gain in performance which can be achived using 64-bit hardware platform as a DC base it's good to have official document about it. This white paper compares performance of Windows 2003 acting as a DC … Continue reading "32-bit to 64-bit Active Directory performance comparison has arrived"

For those who missed this new download – Microsoft had released new AD realted document. Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Operations Guide is a refreshed version of comprehensive guide through most of AD related tasks which may be required in AD environment. Must have document for every person who is taking care about Active Directory.

Now … the day had come, your forest schema has to be extended with some new attributes and classes. You are sweating, You are feeling dizziness (…) my goosh, my precious schema (…). That’s the case with many people – need to extend the Active Directory schema makes them ill or in best case not … Continue reading "Extending the schema – notes from the field"

Just after Christmas another gift came out from Microsfot- ADAM SP1 war released for download. ADAM SP1 is integrated with standard setup package which installs ADAM service. At this moment it is available for x86 and x64 platforms, english language only.

Some posts on ActiveDir.org mailing list reminds me about a topic I discussed some time ago with few peoples regarding using .local DNS suffix in AD domain environment. In fact there is nothing wrong with this particular suffix, it can be used and it is widely used in examples, and as far as I know … Continue reading ".local namespace in mixed environments"

As we can read on Steven's Bink web site, and also other sources 🙂 Windows 2003 R2 went into RTM stage now. Go R2 Team :), we are (are we?) ready to use it.

New KB article came out few days ago regarding possibility of backup failure on Windows 2003 SP1 DCs in specific configuration. Specific configuration means different location for neither DIT file or database logs file if one of this elements is located also on the system drive. So both (DIT and logs) on different drives are … Continue reading "System state backup may fail on Windows 2003 SP1 DCs"

I don’t want to pretend that I know AD schema very well – I work with schema and I know how it is build, some values and their meanings etc. I also remember some of commonly used attributes name, but I don’t know all of them. Today my friend get back from the customer site … Continue reading "Get a drink with AD"

After my previous post about confidential bit I received great feedback through blog comment system (Thanks Jorge and Lee) and in off-line conversation on newsgroup. I’ve decided to gather this additional information in next post as an update to my original one. First of all when You want to use confidential bit for some attribute … Continue reading "Confidential bit follow-up"

Brett Shirley on in one of a threads on activedir.org mailing list mentioned one .additional. switch which can be used in conjunction with dcdiag.exe command. DCDIAG is well known and extremely useful diagnostic tool used in many different Active Directory troubleshooting aspects to get information about current view of AD. When You will use /? … Continue reading "[R] DCDIAG debug switch"