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
It turns out that weird things can happen when you mix Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers
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