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Overview
With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can read your Active Directory structure through Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO). The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool automates Microft Office Visio to draw a diagram of the Active Directory Domain topology, your Active Directory Site topology, your OU structure or your current Exchange 200X Server Organization. [...]

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Windows Client Springboard Series: Advanced Group Policy Derek Melber, author, IT Consultant and Microsoft MVP for Group Policy, discusses how to effectively use the new group policy objects in Windows Vista to improve manageability and strengthen security.
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Issue
So you’ve deployed OCS 2007 with Voice in your organization and know you need a way to keep track of all the phone numbers your have assigned to your voice enabled users.  One way of course to is to build a nice spreadsheet but that can be cumbersome to manage in a large environment where [...]

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If you have ever played with trusts in Microsoft Active Directory you know what I’m talking about.  You have successfully built a trust to another Forest or Domain and now you want to login to your client with an account from the trusted Domain/Forest.  But wait…you click the pull down menu and don’t see the [...]

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Originally posted by Aaron Parker these are some very nice white papers on Group Policy.  A good read for any AD administrator.
 
Advanced Group Policy Management Overview
This white paper is an overview of Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), and describes its benefits, how it works, and the next steps for evaluating it. AGPM helps you [...]

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Bob Drake from the MS Directory Services team has written a nice article explaining how to configure your Forest Root PDC to use multiple time servers in a primary/secondary configuration.  He also throws in a few debugging options as well.  A very good read.
Thanks Bob.
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“Bob Drake from Microsoft again. Often we see situations where the [...]

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Bob Drake of the Microsoft Directory Services team just posted a great article on High Accuracy W32 Time Requirements.  A recommended read to any AD administrator.
“Hello there. I’m Bob Drake from Microsoft’s Directory Services Team. Quite often we get inquiries on how to configure networks for high accuracy time needs.  In some cases, customers want [...]

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