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Hello readers. The AskDS blog, as with all the other TechNet and MSDN blogs, will be moving to a new...
Date: 03/26/2019
Hi There! Marius and Tolu from the Directory Services Escalation Team. Today, we’re going to talk...
Date: 04/10/2018
Greetings again AskDS! Ryan Ries here. Got something exciting to talk about. You might be familiar...
Date: 10/09/2017
Hi all! Justin Turner here from the Directory Services team with a brief announcement: We are...
Date: 07/26/2017
Hi! Linda Taylor here, Senior Escalation Engineer in the Directory Services space. I have spent the...
Date: 10/13/2016
Hello everyone! Hubert from the German Networking Team here again with part two of my little Blog...
Date: 09/21/2016
Hello everyone, Hubert from the German Networking Team here. Today I want to revisit a topic that I...
Date: 09/01/2016
My name is Ajay Sarkaria & I work with the Windows Supportability team at Microsoft. There have...
Date: 06/22/2016
Hello, Ryan Ries back at it again with another exciting installment of esoteric Active Directory and...
Date: 06/14/2016
Hello Everyone, my name is Raghav and I’m a Technical Advisor for one of the Microsoft Active...
Date: 05/11/2016
Disclaimer: Windows Server 2016 is still in a Technical Preview state – the information contained in...
Date: 03/09/2016
Hi! Jim Tierney here again to talk to you about Cryptographic Algorithms, SCHANNEL and other bits of...
Date: 12/08/2015
Hi! Linda Taylor here from the UK Directory Services escalation team. This time on ADLDS, Repadmin,...
Date: 11/06/2015
Hello, Ryan Ries here with my first AskDS post! I recently ran into an issue with a particular...
Date: 10/29/2015
Hello. Jim here again to take you through the migration steps for moving your two tier PKI hierarchy...
Date: 10/26/2015
Hi All, We’ve had a few folks want to know how to disable Developer Mode using Group Policy, but...
Date: 09/22/2015
Hi everyone, Ajay here. I wanted to let you all know that we have released the Windows 10 Group...
Date: 08/07/2015
Hi all, here's a quick public service announcement to highlight some recently published ADFS 2.0...
Date: 05/06/2015
Hi all, David Ani here from Romania. This guide outlines basic steps used to troubleshoot Group...
Date: 04/17/2015
Hello! Warren here to talk about a very specific scenario involving the new DB cloning feature added...
Date: 02/12/2015
Hello again, this is guest author Herbert from Germany. If you worked an Active Directory...
Date: 10/24/2014
Update 9/9/2014 Warren here yet again to update this blog to tell you that the GP to control the...
Date: 09/09/2014
It turns out that weird things can happen when you mix Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers
UPDATE: The hotfix is now available for this issue! Get it at...
Date: 07/23/2014
Hi everyone, David here. Today over at the Springboard series blog we announced some important news...
Date: 04/16/2014
Hi, David here. Over the past year we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our customers about the...
Date: 04/07/2014
Hi! Its Linda Taylor here again from the Directory Services Escalation team in the UK. In this post,...
Date: 02/17/2014
Hi All! My name is Saurabh Koshta and I am with the Core Team at Microsoft. Currently I work in the...
Date: 02/17/2014
So, we’ve been quiet for a few months, which is extraordinarily embarrassing after I basically...
Date: 12/13/2013
Update (8/19/13): We have republished MS13-066 with a corrected version of the hotfixes that...
Date: 08/15/2013
Hi everyone, David here with a quick announcement. Yesterday, MSRC announced a timeframe for...
Date: 08/14/2013
Over at the Filecab blog, AskDS alum and all-around nice guy Ned Pyle has posted the first of...
Date: 07/31/2013
[Editor's note: Everything Mark mentions for Windows 8 clients here is also true for Windows 8.1...
Date: 07/31/2013
Time for a quick lesson in blog history. There'll be a quiz at the end! Ok not really, but some...
Date: 07/15/2013
Hello folks, this is Herbert from the Directory Services support team in Europe! Kerberos is...
Date: 07/01/2013
Just in case you missed the announcement, the preview build of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now...
Date: 06/25/2013
Editor's note: This is the first of very likely many "DS Quickies". "Quickies" are shorter technical...
Date: 06/04/2013
Welcome back! Kim Nichols here once again with the much anticipated Part 2 to Circle Back to...
Date: 05/21/2013
Hello, Joji Oshima here to dive deeper into the Claims Rule Language for AD FS. A while back I wrote...
Date: 05/07/2013
Hello again! Kim Nichols here again. For this post, I'm taking a break from the AD LDS discussions...
Date: 02/08/2013
Hello again everyone! David here to discuss a scenario that is becoming more and more popular for...
Date: 02/06/2013