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Updated Group Policy Search service
Mike here with an important service announcement. In June of 2010, guest poster Kapil Mehra introduced the Group Policy Search service. The Group Policy Search (GPS) service is a web application...
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Circle Back to Loopback
Hello again! Kim Nichols here again. For this post, I'm taking a break from the AD LDS discussions (hold your applause until the end) and going back to a topic near and dear to my heart - Group...
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Back to the Loopback: Troubleshooting Group Policy loopback processing, Part 2
Welcome back! Kim Nichols here once again with the much anticipated Part 2 to Circle Back to Loopback. Thanks for all the comments and feedback on Part 1. For those of you joining us a little late...
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Adding shortcuts on desktop using Group Policy Preferences in Windows 8 and...
Hi All!My name is Saurabh Koshta and I am with the Core Team at Microsoft. Currently I work in the client space so supporting all aspects of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is my primary role.We very often...
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A Treatise on Group Policy Troubleshooting–now with GPSVC Log Analysis!
Hi all, David Ani here from Romania. This guide outlines basic steps used to troubleshoot Group Policy application errors using the Group Policy Service Debug logs (gpsvc.log). A basic understanding of...
View ArticleTroubleshoot ADFS 2.0 with these new articles
Hi all, here’s a quick public service announcement to highlight some recently published ADFS 2.0 troubleshooting guidance. We get a lot of questions about configuring and troubleshooting ADFS 2.0, so...
View ArticleWindows 10 Group Policy (.ADMX) Templates now available for download
Hi everyone, Ajay here. I wanted to let you all know that we have released the Windows 10 Group Policy (.ADMX) templates on our download center as an MSI installer package. These .ADMX templates are...
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Manage Developer Mode on Windows 10 using Group Policy
Hi All, We’ve had a few folks want to know how to disable Developer Mode using Group Policy, but still allow side-loaded apps to be installed. Here is a quick note how to do this. (A more AD-centric...
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SHA1 Key Migration to SHA256 for a two tier PKI hierarchy
Hello. Jim here again to take you through the migration steps for moving your two tier PKI hierarchy from SHA1 to SHA256. I will not be explaining the differences between the two or the supportability...
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“Administrative limit for this request was exceeded" Error from Active Directory
Hello, Ryan Ries here with my first AskDS post! I recently ran into an issue with a particular environment where Active Directory and UNIX systems were being integrated. Microsoft has several...
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Using Repadmin with ADLDS and Lingering objects
Hi! Linda Taylor here from the UK Directory Services escalation team. This time on ADLDS, Repadmin, lingering objects and even PowerShell…. The other day a colleague was trying to remove a lingering...
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Speaking in Ciphers and other Enigmatic tongues…update!
Hi! Jim Tierney here again to talk to you about Cryptographic Algorithms, SCHANNEL and other bits of wonderment. My original post on the topic has gone through a rewrite to bring you up to date on...
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Does your logon hang after a password change on win 8.1 /2012 R2/win10?
Hi, Linda Taylor here, Senior Escalation Engineer from the Directory Services team in the UK. I have been working on this issue which seems to be affecting many of you globally on windows 8.1, 2012 R2...
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Previewing Server 2016 TP4: Temporary Group Memberships
Disclaimer: Windows Server 2016 is still in a Technical Preview state – the information contained in this post may become inaccurate in the future as the product continues to evolve. More specifically,...
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Are your DCs too busy to be monitored?: AD Data Collector Set solutions for...
Hi all, Herbert Mauerer here. In this post we’re back to talk about the built-in AD Diagnostics Data collector set available for Active Directory Performance (ADPERF) issues and how to ensure a useful...
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Setting up Virtual Smart card logon using Virtual TPM for Windows 10 Hyper-V...
Hello Everyone, my name is Raghav and I’m a Technical Advisor for one of the Microsoft Active Directory support teams. This is my first blog and today I’ll share with you how to configure a Hyper-V...
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The Version Store Called, and They’re All Out of Buckets
Hello, Ryan Ries back at it again with another exciting installment of esoteric Active Directory and ESE database details! I think we need to have another little chat about something called the version...
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Deploying Group Policy Security Update MS16-072 \ KB3163622
My name is Ajay Sarkaria & I work with the Windows Supportability team at Microsoft. There have been many questions on deploying the newly released security update MS16-072. This post was written...
View ArticleAccess-Based Enumeration (ABE) Concepts (part 1 of 2)
Hello everyone, Hubert from the German Networking Team here. Today I want to revisit a topic that I wrote about in 2009: Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) This is the first part of a 2-part Series. This...
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Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) Troubleshooting (part 2 of 2)
Hello everyone! Hubert from the German Networking Team here again with part two of my little Blog Post Series about Access-Based Enumeration (ABE). In the first part I covered some of the basic...
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