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How to Remove a Failed or Offline DC
I’ve seen this issue come up time and time again.  Some administrator decided to remove an old DC from the network but forgot to remove it from Active Directory or the DC has entered a failed state and cannot be recovered from.  In a perfect...
Must Have Group Policy Setting!
I recently blogged about time and how critical it is in a domain environment. Just this morning I read a post from the Directory Services Team that shows how to configure WMI Filtering through Group Policy to ensure that the PDC Emulator always has the...
What W32tm is it anyway?
My daughter Alyssa and I play a game…well she might not consider it a game but she is constantly  asking me “What time is it without looking”.  I’ve actually gotten pretty good at it and can usually get within a few minutes.  Not sure why...
Windows Server 2008 Component Posters
Back in January of 2007 I posted that TechNet Magazine had a really cool poster that showed Active Directory as a Jigsaw puzzle. I noticed in my latest copy of TechNet Magazine that it included two new posters. One of them was another Active Directory...