I was approached with a rather unusual request. My customer has two Active Directory domains: DOMA and DOMB. The workstations would remain in DOMA, but the users and associated mailboxes would reside in (or be moved to) DOMB. In addition, they needed...

How well do you understand the needs and requirements of your end users? Everytime I ask this, I get the same response: "Fully." When I ask about conducting an email survey, it usually falls in deaf ears, because IT folks feel it is a waste of time to...

After an upgrade or migration to Active Directory, many customers find themselves with "garbage" or "baggage" from the old environment that is inconsistent with newly created objects. For example, an existing user might have the following DN: CN=smithJ...

If you're an infrastructure person, you'll likely be involved in the coming months or years with one of Microsoft's newest offerings on the Windows Server platform. The Compute Cluster Edition (CCE) of Windows is a new version of Windows Server 2003....