New links page

January 14th, 2006

I’ve now added a page which lists all of the links that I’ll be collecting relating to Active Directory.

You can find the page here: http://activedir.blogtown.co.nz/links/

Remotely reboot a server into DSRM

January 12th, 2006

I thought I’d start off the blog with something that I learned recently that I will probably never use. However, it’s quite useful to know anyway and it highlights a couple of cool features that you may not have known about.

The scenario is that you have a remote domain controller that you need to take offline and reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode. There are a couple of ways to do this but I am going to look at the most interesting…

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My new Active Directory blog

January 10th, 2006

I’ve decided to start up a new [tag]blog[/tag] where I’ll write posts relating to [tag]Microsoft[/tag]’s [tag]Active Directory[/tag]. This will probably include some tips and tricks, problems that I’ve run into in the past, solutions to common problems, perhaps some scripts that I’ve written to help manage to Active Directory, and any interesting links that I feel are important to keep handy.

Hope you enjoy this blog – I’ll keep the comments open so feel free to post your thoughts and ideas and I’ll always aim to respond as soon as I can.