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New USMT 5.0 Features for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Hi all, Ned here again. Frequent readers know that I’ve written many times about the User State Migration Tool; it’s surprising to some, but the Directory Services team owns supporting this tool within...
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Saturday Mail Sack: Because it turns out, Friday night was alright for...
Hello all, Ned here again with our first mail sack in a couple months. I have enough content built up here that I actually created multiple posts, which means I can personally guarantee there will be...
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How to NOT Use Win32_Product in Group Policy Filtering
Hi all, Ned here again. I have worked many slow boot and slow logon cases over my career. The Directory Services support team here at Microsoft owns a sizable portion of those operations - user...
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Friday Mail Sack: Drop the dope, hippy! edition
Hi all, Ned here again with an actual back to back mail sack. This week we discuss:Running out of USNs and VersionsDFSR RDC LAN WAN FWIW AOKNPS and dotted NetBIOS domain namesUSMT and the case of the...
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New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content
Hi all, Ned here again. We get emailed here all the time about issues involving delays in user logons. Often enough that, a few years back, Bob wrote a multi-part article on the subject.Taking it to...
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Friday Mail Sack: Mothers day pfffft… when is son’s day?
Hi folks, Ned here again. It’s been a little while since the last sack, but I have a good excuse: I just finished writing a poop ton of Windows Server 2012 depth training that our support folks around...
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Dynamic Access Control intro on Windows Server blog
Hey all, Ned here with a quick “xerox” post: the Dynamic Access Control developers have released a good intro on their octo-feature through the Windows Server Blog:Introduction to Windows Server 2012...
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Do not skip the latest B8 boot post
Hey all, Ned here. The Building Windows 8 blog recently posted a new article from Chris Clark that you might have passed over due to the title, which sounds like another article on boot...
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More Central Access Policies blogging happening
Hi all, Ned here. Our friend Nir has another new DAC-related post up, this time on the File Cab blog: Getting started with Central Access Policies - Reducing security group complexity and achieving...
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Come get Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate
Ned here. Go there:Download Windows 8 Release Preview ISO imagesDownload Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Datacenter (ISO and VHD images)Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8...
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The Mouse Will Play
Hey all, Ned here. Mike and I start teaching Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 DS internals this month in the US and UK and won’t be back until July. Until then, Jonathan is – I can’t believe I’m...
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I’m Baaaaaccccck
Hey all, Ned here again. After a few months of training room huffing, airline food loathing, and PowerPoint shilling, I’m back in Charlotte. I’ve got a backlog of legacy product posts to share from...
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RSA Key Blocking is Coming
Hey all, Ned here again with one of my rare public service announcement posts:In August 2012, Microsoft will issue a software update for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows...
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Friday Mail Sack: I Don’t Like the Taste of Pants Edition
Hi all, Ned here again. After a few months of talking about Windows Server 2012 to other ‘softies from around the globe, I’m back with the sack. It was great fun – and not over yet, it turns out – but...
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Shipped it
Windows 8 RTM Windows Server 2012 RTM IT Pros Store Build Dates Prizes - Ned "terse" Pyle
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Managing RID Issuance in Windows Server 2012
Hi all, Ned here again to talk further about managing your RID pool.By default, a domain has capacity for roughly one billion security principals, such as users, security groups, managed service...
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Detaining Docs with DAC
Hey all, Ned here again with a quick advert:Robert Deluca from our Partner and Customer team just published a blog post on Dynamic Access Control. He walks through the configuration of “document...
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AD Replication Status Tool is Live
Hey all, Ned here with some new troubleshooting tool love, courtesy of the ADREPLSTATUS team at Microsoft. I’ll let them do the talking:The Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) is...
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Monthly Mail Sack: Yes, I Finally Admit It Edition
Heya folks, Ned here again. Rather than continue the lie that this series comes out every Friday like it once did, I am taking the corporate approach and rebranding the mail sack. Maybe we’ll have the...
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Windows Server 2012 GA
Hey folks, Ned here again to tell you what you probably already know: Windows Server 2012 is now generally available: Understand the visionVisit the launch page and learn what’s newDownload the trialGo...
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