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		<title>Active Directory 2008 R2 Design Guide</title>
		<link>http://itsolutionsdirect.com/active-directory-2008-r2-design-guide/332/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can get this from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&#38;FamilyID=88f0184c-8f03-4f0f-b3f9-5109255fb461 Overview This guidance provides general recommendations for the design, deployment and management of an Active Directory environment in a healthcare organization according to current best practices. The purpose of this guidance is to accelerate Active Directory design and deployment in a healthcare organization, and provide a framework for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internal launch of Active Directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a video showing the internal launch of the MS Active Directory domain, the first ever in the world. Fascinating stuff!!]]></description>
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		<title>FSMO Role Holders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that every support person who manages and supports active directory should know is the FSMO role holders, or operational masters as they are sometimes called, what they do and the effects of them being offline due to any kind of disaster/failure. These role holders are possibly one of the most important servers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 installation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To prepare an Active Directory domain for an Exchange 2007 installation we have to perform a number of steps before we go ahead with the installation. 1) Prepare the Schema This must be run on the Schema Master in the forest and you must also be a member of schema admins to run. D:\&#62;setup /prepareschema [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retrieve FSMO Roles from the command line</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To retrieve the FSMO roles from the command line we can use dsquery command: dsquery server –hasfsmo Schema (Schema Master) dsquery server –hasfsmo Name (Domain Naming Master) dsquery server –hasfsmo Infr (Infrastructure Master) dsquery server –hasfsmo PDC (PDC Emulator) dsquery server –hasfsmo RID (RID Master)]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Functional Levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows Server 2000 The Windows 2000 forest functional level provides all Active Directory Domain Services features that are available in Windows 2000 Server. If you have domain controllers running later versions of Windows Server, some advanced features will not be available on those domain controllers while this forest is at the Windows 2000 functional level. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing AD with Powershell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows Server 2008 R2 gives us the ability to manage Active Directory with Powershell. Here is a really nice poster for all the powershell commandlets for AD downloaded from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/03/05/active-directory-powershell-overview.aspx]]></description>
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		<title>Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&#38;FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb Overview Using column filters, you can filter the information in these spreadsheets by operating system, component, or computer or user configuration. You can also search for information by using text or keywords. These spreadsheets include the following categories of security policy settings: Account Policies (Password Policy, Account Lockout Policy, and Kerberos Policy), Local Policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exchange Active Directory Support Matrix</title>
		<link>http://itsolutionsdirect.com/exchange-active-directory-support-matrix/259/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<title>How do I find out which AD Schema version i am running?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can do this by using Joe Richards excellent AD Find tool which you down download from http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm C:\&#62;adfind -schema -s base objectversion AdFind V01.40.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) February 2009 Using server: 2008R2DC1.testlab.local:389 Directory: Windows Server 2008 R2 Base DN: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=testlab,DC=local dn:CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=testlab,DC=local &#62;objectVersion: 47 1 Objects returned From this i can tell I am running [...]]]></description>
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