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First published on TechNet on Oct 01, 2013
Hello Everyone,
This is Shijo from our team in Bangalore once again. Today I’d like to briefly discuss account lockouts, and some UI behaviors that can trip admins up whe… Continue reading Locked or not? Demystifying the UI behavior for account lockouts
First published on TechNet on Aug 15, 2013
Update (8/19/13):
We have republished MS13-066 with a corrected version of the hotfixes that contributed to this problem. If you had held off on installing the update, it … Continue reading Important Announcement: AD FS 2.0 and MS13-066
First published on TechNet on Aug 14, 2013
Hi everyone,
David
here with a quick announcement.
Yesterday, MSRC announced a timeframe for deprecation of built-in support for certificates that use … Continue reading MD5 Signature Hash Deprecation and Your Infrastructure
First published on TechNet on Jul 31, 2013
Over at the
Filecab
blog, AskDS alum and all-around nice guy
Ned Pyle
has posted the first of several blogs about new features coming your way in Windows Server 2012 R2.&… Continue reading DFS Replication in Windows Server 2012 R2 and other goodies, now available on the Filecab blog!
First published on TechNet on Jul 31, 2013
[Editor’s note: Everything Mark mentions for Windows 8 clients here is also true for Windows 8.1 clients. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 clients use the same (v3) profile versi… Continue reading Roaming Profile Compatibility – The Windows 7 to Windows 8 Challenge
First published on TechNet on Jul 15, 2013
Time for a quick lesson in blog history. There’ll be a quiz at the end! Ok not really, but some history all the same.
Back a few years ago when we here at Microsoft were ju… Continue reading Because TechNet didn’t have enough Active Directory awesomeness already
First published on TechNet on Jul 01, 2013
Hello folks, this is
Herbert
from the Directory Services support team in Europe!
Kerberos is becoming increasingly mandatory for really cool features such as
… Continue reading Interesting findings on SETSPN -x -f
First published on TechNet on Jun 25, 2013
Just in case you missed the
announcement
, the preview build of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now available for
download
. If you want to see the latest and greatest, h… Continue reading Windows Server 2012 R2 – Preview available for download