Active Directory Quotas

There was a question on the Microsoft TechNet Forums which I’d like to take as an opportunity to write an article on AD quotas.
Active Directory knows quotas to limit a security principle’s ability to create objects in an Active Directory partition. With quotas, you can define how many objects a user, a computer or a […]

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What is PDC chaining?

Imagine you’re in a multi-site environment that has several DCs in all sites across the nation. Imagine further you have a user John who calls you monday morning. You’re setting in the headquarters. “Dude”, he asks, “can you reset my password? My weekend’s been so hard. They sent me to this branch office where they party all […]

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The “Return deactivated links” control in LDAP

Okay, just to get this straight and get things clean.
I’ve blogged about the Recycle Bin feature in Server 2008 R2 and was wondering how group membership of users was stored, when groups were deleted (or vice versa). In general, forward- and backlinks are stripped of an object once it becomes a tombstone (=gets deleted without […]

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