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...
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...
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...
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...
User interactive PowerShell scripts
You can automate recurrings tasks with interactive PowerShell scripts. How to query input values? How to make PS scripts interactive? An introduction to Read-Host, Confirm,...
AD based Intranet Phone Book
I want to introduce you briefly how to deploy an intranet phone book using Active Directory in a short time. I want to discuss –...
Mozilla Firefox – Error: The connection was interrupted
Some websites can not be displayed with Mozilla Firefox anymore. Instead you get the message: Error: the connection was interrupted. The reason is the encryption...
Extend Active Directory Delegation Wizard for Tasks
Active Directory Delegation Wizard is a nice tool to delegate recurring tasks within the AD user administration. It can be extended with almost no limitations...
Refine Outlook search with special search parameters
To optimize search results in Outlook, different parameters can be used. The syntax is structured as follows: Search Operator: search string 1 Search Operator: search...
Domain User Migration: SharePoint and SIDHistory
One of the basic principles of an Active Directory domain migration is the access to resources in the source domain based on SIDHistory information of...
Public Key Infrastructure: Basics about digital certificates (HTTPS, SSL)
The usage of digital certificates for encrypted communication and lettering of data like email is a top item on most companies’ wish list. Surprisingly many...
VMWare: Expanding ESX farm – which CPU-type suits best?
I am planning to expand a VMWare ESX farm. What are the requirements the new host has to fulfill. (more…)
SharePoint Service Accounts (Sharepoint 2010)
How to deal with SharePoint service accounts? The following questions always come up at the beginning of a SharePoint project: Which accounts are needed? When...
LDAP over SSL – LDAPs with Windows Server 2008 R2 (Secure LDAP)
Last week I faced the easy task to activate LDAPs on Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers. One of the applications required an encrypted LDAP...
Automate Microsoft Network Monitor Traces
Finding errors that occur only a few times per day is difficult. The small tutorial shows you how to automate Microsoft Network Monitor Traces to...
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