Israel Platforms PFE Team
PowerShell: Get-ServiceAccountUsage
If you ever needed to know if and where a certain user account was being used to run a service, a...
Date: 01/02/2012
Disaster Recovery Site and Active Directory (Part 3 of 3)
Welcome to part 3 of the series… hopefully you have enjoyed the first two parts where we have...
Date: 12/11/2011
Disaster Recovery Site and Active Directory (Part 2 of 3)
So in Part 2 of the series we're going to discuss the following scenario: The challenge in this...
Date: 12/04/2011
Disaster Recovery Site and Active Directory (Part 1 of 3)
Hi All, Michael here again, and this time I would like to talk a little bit about Active Directory...
Date: 12/01/2011
Authenticode, signing, VSTOs and what they have to do with CRLs
The topic of this post may sound a bit strange with many big words, but the reason of the topic is...
Date: 11/06/2011
And sometimes the GUI does not tell you the whole story
Hi All, Hello world! This is Moti. Just as Michael and Guy, I am a member of the Israel PFE team,...
Date: 09/26/2011
A case of a disappeared schema attribute or schema limbo in progress
Disclaimer: Do NOT in any way attempt to perform the steps outlined in this post in your production...
Date: 09/19/2011
Debugging DsGetDCName in Win7
Hi, That's just a short post while I'm working for a longer one. A couple of days ago I was...
Date: 05/04/2011
Querying BITWISE flags in attributes
As you know several attributes in the Active Directory are composed of BITWISE flags. This means...
Date: 01/17/2011
My Tech-ed Session References (DTC300 – Turbo Charge your Active Directory)
Hi, Thank you all for attending my Session.. hope you had fun :-) Here’s a list of all...
Date: 11/27/2010
GPP Drives maps causing slow logon due to unavailable file servers - and how to make sure they won’t
Michael here again, and this time I would like to discuss the Group Policy preferences drive...
Date: 11/10/2010
Optimizing NTLM authentication flow in multi-domain environments
I’ll start with the obvious: Kerberos is the way to go. NTLM is less secure and is being...
Date: 11/05/2010
Searching for Deleted Objects using Powershell
This question popped in my mailbox – how can you use a script to search for deleted objects...
Date: 10/12/2010
Inspecting pending outbound changes between two DFSR replicas
Well, as promised, this one is a technical post. Many words have been spoken about DFSR and there is...
Date: 10/02/2010
The blog gets a new look
Hello everyone ! This is Guy. Just as Michael, I am a member of the Israel PFE team, specializing in...
Date: 09/30/2010
DNS Scavenging internals (or what is the dnsTombstoned attribute) for AD Integrated zones
Hello everybody, this is Michael again. This time I would like to discuss the internal...
Date: 09/23/2010
Using the DirSync control
Hello world, This is Michael. I’m a member of the Israeli platform team and I’m here to...
Date: 09/19/2010
“Hello World”
Welcome to the Israel Platform PFEs Blog. The Israel Platform PFE team currently consists of...
Date: 09/19/2010