This just in: “Microsoft releases Windows Azure Architecture Guides! ITPros go wild!” Read all about it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35764 A 9 MB Word-document; you gotta love it! Morgan
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Which accounts can I assign as Windows Azure co-administrators?
Recently the ability to add co-administrators to you Windows Azure portal was migrated from the old Silverlight portal to the new HTML 5 portal. Happy times! You can only add valid Microsoft Accounts or accounts from Windows Azure Active Directory as co-administrators. Office 365 uses Windows Azure Active Directory to if you have an account …
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Decoding some certificate enrollment client events
The Events Windows clients can request certificates on their own (autoenrollment) or with the help of a user. When enrolling for a certificate you may find this pair of events in your Application log: Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CertEnroll Event ID: 64 Level: Information User: S-1-5-18 User Name: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM Computer: <servername> Description: Certificate enrollment for Local system …
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Official Active Directory blogs
I though I would just remind everyone about Microsoft’s official Active Directory (and related) blogs. These are great places to get good technical info about AD directly from the source. Check them out! Active Directory Blog Ask the Directory Services Team Blog Group Policy Blog Windows PKI blog Happy reading!
Enabling notify-driven replication across Active Directory sites
Introduction Active Directory sites, site links and site link bridges exist to be able to tell the directory service about the network’s physical topology. Specifically to identiy which parts of it are well connected and where there are slow WAN links. The rule of thumb here is that all systems that are connected with at …
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