Ask the Directory Services Team

Microsoft's official enterprise support blog for AD DS and more

Hello readers. The AskDS blog, as with all the other TechNet and MSDN blogs, will be moving to a new...

Date: 03/26/2019

Hi There!  Marius and Tolu from the Directory Services Escalation Team.  Today, we’re going to talk...

Date: 04/10/2018

Greetings again AskDS! Ryan Ries here. Got something exciting to talk about. You might be familiar...

Date: 10/09/2017

Hi all! Justin Turner here from the Directory Services team with a brief announcement: We are...

Date: 07/26/2017

Hi! Linda Taylor here, Senior Escalation Engineer in the Directory Services space. I have spent the...

Date: 10/13/2016

Hello everyone! Hubert from the German Networking Team here again with part two of my little Blog...

Date: 09/21/2016

Hello everyone, Hubert from the German Networking Team here. Today I want to revisit a topic that I...

Date: 09/01/2016

My name is Ajay Sarkaria & I work with the Windows Supportability team at Microsoft. There have...

Date: 06/22/2016

Hello, Ryan Ries back at it again with another exciting installment of esoteric Active Directory and...

Date: 06/14/2016

Hello Everyone, my name is Raghav and I’m a Technical Advisor for one of the Microsoft Active...

Date: 05/11/2016

Disclaimer: Windows Server 2016 is still in a Technical Preview state – the information contained in...

Date: 03/09/2016

Hi! Jim Tierney here again to talk to you about Cryptographic Algorithms, SCHANNEL and other bits of...

Date: 12/08/2015

Hi! Linda Taylor here from the UK Directory Services escalation team. This time on ADLDS, Repadmin,...

Date: 11/06/2015

Hello, Ryan Ries here with my first AskDS post! I recently ran into an issue with a particular...

Date: 10/29/2015

Hello. Jim here again to take you through the migration steps for moving your two tier PKI hierarchy...

Date: 10/26/2015

Hi All, We’ve had a few folks want to know how to disable Developer Mode using Group Policy, but...

Date: 09/22/2015

Hi everyone, Ajay here. I wanted to let you all know that we have released the Windows 10 Group...

Date: 08/07/2015

Hi all, here's a quick public service announcement to highlight some recently published ADFS 2.0...

Date: 05/06/2015

Hi all, David Ani here from Romania. This guide outlines basic steps used to troubleshoot Group...

Date: 04/17/2015

Hello! Warren here to talk about a very specific scenario involving the new DB cloning feature added...

Date: 02/12/2015

Hello again, this is guest author Herbert from Germany. If you worked an Active Directory...

Date: 10/24/2014

Update 9/9/2014 Warren here yet again to update this blog to tell you that the GP to control the...

Date: 09/09/2014

UPDATE: The hotfix is now available for this issue! Get it at...

Date: 07/23/2014

Hi everyone, David here. Today over at the Springboard series blog we announced some important news...

Date: 04/16/2014

Hi, David here. Over the past year we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our customers about the...

Date: 04/07/2014

Hi! Its Linda Taylor here again from the Directory Services Escalation team in the UK. In this post,...

Date: 02/17/2014

Hi All! My name is Saurabh Koshta and I am with the Core Team at Microsoft. Currently I work in the...

Date: 02/17/2014

So, we’ve been quiet for a few months, which is extraordinarily embarrassing after I basically...

Date: 12/13/2013

Update (8/19/13): We have republished MS13-066 with a corrected version of the hotfixes that...

Date: 08/15/2013

Hi everyone, David here with a quick announcement. Yesterday, MSRC announced a timeframe for...

Date: 08/14/2013

Over at the Filecab blog, AskDS alum and all-around nice guy Ned Pyle has posted the first of...

Date: 07/31/2013

[Editor's note: Everything Mark mentions for Windows 8 clients here is also true for Windows 8.1...

Date: 07/31/2013

Time for a quick lesson in blog history. There'll be a quiz at the end! Ok not really, but some...

Date: 07/15/2013

Hello folks, this is Herbert from the Directory Services support team in Europe! Kerberos is...

Date: 07/01/2013

Just in case you missed the announcement, the preview build of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now...

Date: 06/25/2013

Editor's note: This is the first of very likely many "DS Quickies". "Quickies" are shorter technical...

Date: 06/04/2013

Welcome back! Kim Nichols here once again with the much anticipated Part 2 to Circle Back to...

Date: 05/21/2013

Hello, Joji Oshima here to dive deeper into the Claims Rule Language for AD FS. A while back I wrote...

Date: 05/07/2013

Hello again! Kim Nichols here again. For this post, I'm taking a break from the AD LDS discussions...

Date: 02/08/2013

Hello again everyone! David here to discuss a scenario that is becoming more and more popular for...

Date: 02/06/2013

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