Month: April 2019

First published on TechNet on Feb 12, 2015

Hello! Warren here to talk about a very specific scenario involving the new DB cloning feature added to DFSR in Windows Server 2012 R2. The topic is how to limit or control which RFs you i… Continue reading DFSR: Limiting the Number of Imported Replicated Folders when using DB cloning→

First published on TechNet on Oct 24, 2014

Hello again, this is guest author

Herbert

from Germany.

If you worked an Active Directory performance issue, you might have noticed a number of AD Performance counters for N… Continue reading Understanding ATQ performance counters, yet another twist in the world of TLAs→

First published on TechNet on Sep 15, 2014

Introducing the Lingering Object Liquidator

Hi all, Justin Turner here —it’s been a while since my last

update

. The goal of this post is to discuss… Continue reading Remove Lingering Objects that cause AD Replication error 8606 and friends→

First published on TechNet on Sep 09, 2014

Update 9/9/2014

Warren here yet again to update this blog to tell you that the GP to control the Store icon pin has shipped in the August 2014 update:

http://support.microsoft.co… Continue reading Managing the Store app pin to the Taskbar added in the Windows 8.1 Update→

First published on TechNet on Aug 21, 2014

Hi all, Jason here. Long time reader, first time blogger. AzMan is Microsoft’s tool to manage authorization to applications based on a user’s role. AzMan has been around since 2003 and has had… Continue reading Hate to see you go, but it’s time to move on to greener pastures. A farewell to Authorization Manger aka AzMan→

First published on TechNet on Jul 23, 2014

UPDATE:  The hotfix is now available for this issue!  Get it at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2989971

This hotfix applies to Windows Serv… Continue reading It turns out that weird things can happen when you mix Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers→

First published on TechNet on Apr 16, 2014

Hi everyone, David here.  Today over at the

Springboard series blog

we announced some important news that applies to anyone who has been trying to roll out the Windows 8.1 upda… Continue reading An Update about the Windows 8.1 Update→

First published on TechNet on Apr 07, 2014

Hi, David here.  Over the past year we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our customers about the pain of changing from older versions of Windows over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.&nbsp… Continue reading Options for Managing Go to Desktop or Start after Sign in in Windows 8.1→