| Sys Admin Extraordinaire |

2009-09-08 Initial Post

Windows Server 2003/2008

STUB ZONES AND CONDITIONAL FORWARDERS

I’ve been working with AD for 9 years and just recently really understood what a stub zone was and which situations are appropriate for its use. I also came to a similar realization about conditional forwarding, although I was already more familiar with that. Anyway, I don’t think many people really understand these features for two major reasons: (more…)

2011-02-12 Updated

2010-03-08 Initial Post

As simple as it seems, I'm not aware of a quick and easy way using the built-in AD (2003) or Exchange (2003) GUIs to search for which object has a particular e-mail address. If I wanted to find out which object (it could be a group, mailbox, or public folder) has the e-mail address techsupport@my-corp.com, I could find it by entering the address in Outlook and letting Outlook resolve it through the Global Address List. But if the object is hidden, it won't be in the GAL, so that wouldn't work. (more…)

2009-07-28 Initial Post

Tested on Windows XP SP3 with Cisco VPN Client 5.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 AD

Remote users who need to sync their laptop’s locally cached password with their AD password can do the following: (more…)