New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 4: New PowerShell Cmdlets

With Windows PowerShell Scripting being one of the requirements in the current Common Engineering Criteria (CEC), all Microsoft server products need to comply with having Windows PowerShell scripting support. In Windows Server 2012, Active Directory Domain Services expands beyond the 76 Active Directory Management PowerShell Cmdlets and 15 Active Directory Provider PowerShell Cmdlets found in … Continue reading "New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 4: New PowerShell Cmdlets"

New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 3: New Upgrade Process

While a lot of lab environments will be set up as I explained in part 2 of this series (with the New Promotion Process), in the real world a lot of Active Directory environments will be upgraded or transitioned, because they’re already equipped with Domain Controllers running a previous version of Windows Server. In this … Continue reading "New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 3: New Upgrade Process"