German Cloud
Let’s face the facts. Microsoft announced a German cloud last week at this year’s Technical Summit. Find out how this could affect you – questions and answers. (more…)
Inconsistent permissions in Global Catalogue
If you want to use AD groups to assign permissions for ressources, you usually do it this way: Bind permissions to local groups Nest global or universal groups into the...
Group Managed Service Accounts
As already explained in the article about ADFS 3.0, Windows Server 2010 supports Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA) are supported under Windows Server 2012. The passwords of these accounts are...
Downgrade Windows Server 2012 licenses
With DISM.exe you can only upgrade Windows Server licenses, e.g. from Windows Server 2012 Standard to Windows Server 2012 Datacenter. In this article, I am going to show you how...
Windows 7 – Changed Behavior during Moving Process
With Windows 7, the behavior of Windows Explorer while moving files and directories seems to have changed. So far, we had the following rules: Moving files on the same NTFS-volume...
Mapped drives are not available in Windows Explorer
Drive mapping and the local administrator group.Or: What do you have to do that mapped drives are available (if you are an admin)? Besides them being integrated into the logon...
AD Sites and Services: NLTEST /DSAddressToSite
Who knows all functions of NLTEST? In answer to this question, not a lot of people would say “yes”. After the triumph of Powershell, some other nice tools were simply...
Active Directory and Office 365 coexistence
Office 365 comes with an own portal and therefore requires an own user administration. Most companies, however, already have their individual AD infrastructures 211. Is it possible to use or...
Domain and Forest Functional Levels – Overview
Today I recognized, that it is not easy to find a comprehensive summary table about Active Directory Domain and Forest Functional Levels (operating mode) on the internet. There are some...
New features in ADFS 3.0 (Active Directory Federation Services)
ADFS 3.0 is part of Windows Server 2012 R2. The current version offers some really interesting new features. In this article I want to provide you a brief overview. ...
Dynamic AD Groups
Dynamic Entra ID Groups
