Reference Point

What's Hybrid Identity?

Hello everyone, Now that I've got Azure AD, how can I take advantage of my investments on ADDS? This...

Date: 10/24/2017

Why do I need Azure AD?

This is an Ice breaker and a question I get all the time and I see it maybe in the same way an...

Date: 10/23/2017

Lingering Objects cleanup

Recently I have been working with a premier customer in South Africa to cleanup their forest from...

Date: 10/16/2014

How to prevent the creation of GPOs from outside AGPM (Advanced Group Policy Management)

During my interactions with Premier Microsoft customers I have found out that the main reason for...

Date: 08/21/2013

Fine Grained Password Policies GUI in Windows Server 2012 ADAC

Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Have you ever used...

Date: 04/12/2013

AD recycle bin feature and Windows Server 2012 GUI

Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. The AD recycle bin...

Date: 03/18/2013

How to clone a virtual Domain Controller

Hello my name is Paulo Viralhadas and I'm a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. On one of my...

Date: 03/07/2013

So you wanted to deploy Domain Controllers faster...Now you can!

A Domain Controller must have a unique name, invocation ID, and security identifier (SID) in the...

Date: 12/11/2012

USN Rollback, Virtualized DCs and improvements on Windows Server 2012.

The USN rollback issue has been causing hundreds of support calls and AD replication halts...

Date: 12/10/2012

Secure Channel Broken - continuation of "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."

While there can be several reasons for AD replication to fail due to an "access denied" error (you...

Date: 12/03/2012

"The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."

How many times have you came across reports of users complaining that they cannot logon to the...

Date: 11/22/2012

WMI through firewall

In a number of ocasions have been asked to configure services running under the svchost process to...

Date: 11/22/2012