Office 365 - Hybrid Migration - Part 3: DirSync

I had already outlined the DirSync process in a previous blog post (two in fact): Exchange 2007 Staged Migration - Exchange Online (Office 3...

Windows Server 2012 - Active Directory - NTDSUTIL, part 1

The NTDSUTIL tool can be used for various operations concerning Active Directory and the ntds.dit database. Some of the more familiar uses a...

Windows Server 2012 - Active Directory - FSMO role transfer

Transfering the "Flexible Single Master Operations" (FSMO) roles   Note: if you do not know what the "FSMO" roles are, o...

Windows Server 2012 - Active Directory - adding a second domain controller

Best practice, concerning domain controllers, is to have at least two so if one is unavailable, clients can still authenticate to the networ...

Windows Server 2012 - Hyper-V - installation of role, creation of a virtual server

Some time ago, I worked with VMware ESXi 4.1. Although the underlying concepts of virtualization are probably similar, Hyper-V is a new worl...