A new year, a new slew of Microsoft KnowledgeBase articles!

The Active Directory Documentation Team really put its effort in expanding the library of guidance-oriented KnowledgeBase articles, next to the normal amount of new and revised KnowledgeBase articles.

Here’s the overview for January 2012:

Informational KnowledgeBase articles

Microsoft seems to have revised all the Active Directory troubleshooting knowledgebase articles in an effort to provide a consistent troubleshooting experience:

2023704 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 8452: “The naming context is in the process of being removed or is not replicated from the specified server.”

2020053 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 8614: “The Active Directory cannot replicate with this server because the time since the last replication with this server has exceeded the tombstone lifetime”

2645996 Troubleshooting Active Directory Operations that fail with error 8451: The replication operation encountered a database error

2090913 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error -2146893022: The target principal name is incorrect.

2089874 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 1753: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.

2021446 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 8524: The DSA operation is unable to proceed because of a DNS lookup failure

2102154 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 1722: The RPC server is unavailable

2022387 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 8453: “Replication access was denied.”

2025726 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 1127: While accessing the hard disk, a disk operation failed even after retries

2183411 Troubleshooting Active Directory operations that fail with error 1396: Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect.

Of the 13 ‘Troubleshooting Active Directory’ KnowledgeBase articles, Microsoft has now revised the above 10. I guess the others will soon meet their maker.

Other KnowledgeBase articles

2641192 The badPwdCount attribute is not reset to 0 on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based or Windows Server 2008-based PDC when the reset request is sent from an RODC

2666116 Compatibility with user accounts ending with the dollar sign ($)

2644042 “error -1101” when you use the Ntdsutil.exe utility to check an AD DS database’s integrity in Windows Server 2008 R2

2618914 A hotfix is available that adds the FileFsSectorSizeInformation information class to Windows 7 and to Windows Server 2008 R2

2632816 A Windows Server 2008 R2-based DHCP server cannot lease IP addresses if the server cannot reach any RWDCs in an Active Directory domain environment

2642947 “Index was out of range” error message when a Group Policy report is generated in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

2575866 RSoP shows a red X on the icons for registry settings in 64-bit Windows Vista, in 64-bit Windows 7, in 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or in 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2

2648397 You cannot change an expired user account password in a Remote Desktop session from a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2