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Active Directory 5th Edition in Amazon ratings as of today… Rating 4.33 out of 5

  You can do it with Forms http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/prevent-e-mail-message-recipients-from-using-reply-all-or-forward-HA001114224.aspx Some additional links about Outlook Forms http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/overview-of-forms-in-outlook-HA010165958.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/tutorial-creating-and-distributing-custom-forms-with-outlook-HA001210610.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/146636 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-easy-steps-to-customizing-an-outlook-2010-form/2635   Or you can use a simple plugin from Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/researchdesktop/noreplyall.aspx Rating 4.33 out of 5

You really want to get this applied ASAP then… Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 update rollup: July 2013 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2855336 Specifically for Active Directory database becomes corrupted when a Windows Server 2012-based Hyper-V host server crashes http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2853952      joe Rating 4.33 out of 5

Just a quick reminder now that we seem to have a flood of folks moving from 2003 to 2008R2 and 2012 Active Directory…  Your application partitions like the Domain and Forest DNS Zones also have an Infrastructure Master (IM) FSMO role attached to them that may cause certain things to break if you don’t keep […]

In April 2013 Microsoft released an update rollup for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. There are some important updates in the rollup such that people should work to get the updates installed ASAP, especially if virtualizing a server OS. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2822241 Specifically for folks who manage AD and may get a call about this… There […]

This is an open call out to the AD Community asking for folks to comment (or email me) with a list of the Role Based Access Control Products that they are aware of. Specifically tools that do NOT use native AD ACLing but instead perform all access via proxy like can be done with Quest […]

I saw this link on my friend Bob’s blog (http://www.bobbobel.com/the-everything-active-directory-page) today… Everything you need to get started with Active Directory http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2012/01/03/everything-you-need-to-get-started-with-active-directory.aspx   I see a glaring omission but I will let it slide. 😉      joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

Once again, apologies for the slow turnaround time on this. It was a combination of being really busy with my real job along with the poor questions I asked and the way the poll plugin worked. I had to work out how to extract the raw data from the MySQL DB to make some real […]

I responded to a USENET AD Group post back in March 2007 and unfortunately someone pinged me on it and said the command line I specified didn’t work. I looked at it and immediately saw that I had made a mistake. The post can be found here: http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/enforce-password-required–ftopict483580.html The AdFind query is supposed to find […]

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38785 (I am only a little miffed I wasn’t invited to review this… thanks Laura…) Protecting Domain Controllers Domain controllers should be treated as critical infrastructure components, secured more stringently and configured more rigidly than file, print, and application servers. Domain controllers should not run any software that is not required for the domain controller […]