Mark Parris [ADUG]

If you require any Active Directory consultancy or your clients have a need, I am available for short and long term work. I specialise in all aspects of Active Directory, including design, installation, troubleshooting, audits and bespoke training. I run the [ADUG] UK Active Directory User Group, I completed my Microsoft Masters Training in Directory Services and I have recently been nominated for an MVP in Directory Services. If you have a need for my services please contact me at mark.parris@baseit.co.uk for further details.

Microsoft have just changed the name of their long awaited "ILM2" product to Forefront Identity Manager 2010. The product is still a year away though.

http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/en/us/identity-manager.aspx

I run the [ADUG] UK Active Directory User Group and the user group is intending to host several Active Directory Troubleshooting events and would like your opinion on how to deliver the content. The survey is at http://adug.co.uk/forums/t/116.aspx Please complete the survey if you would like to attend, you will have to be registered with the [ADUG] website to complete the survey.

Let me know what other topics you would like to discuss too.

Microsoft will cease to support Windows Server 2003 SP1 on April 14th 2009.

More details here http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3198

This means no hotfixes, patches etc...

Interesting snippet - ILM "2" has been delayed for another year at least!!!.

Nat Muggli announces at TEC 2009 that AD-LDS/ADAM will be supported on Windows Clients and a package should be out for Windows Vista and 7 before the year is out.

Well it's now around 2am and I have already slept as I could not keep awake earlier. Sunday is a free day with only shopping to complete until a welcome reception this evening. I wonder how this years conference will pan out, now that Quest own what was NetPro - we shall see.

After much debate, I will be attending DEC (will always be DEC to me) in Las Vegas - if I pick up on any thing of interest - I will post them back to here.

I am not really a gambling man, but what does really annoy me is, places like my local William Hill having misleading odds posters in their shop window.

For example last night they had, Liverpool v Real Madrid 3-1 and some great price, but the poster should have read Real Madrid v Liverpool 1-3 and the possibility of Liverpool getting 3 away goals at the Santiago Bernabéu explains the odds - I wonder if it's false advertising?

The simple answer is there is not one, I was reviewing the Windows Server 2008 operations guide this evening (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=291bddb7-edc6-4e6d-9852-a9a14991d67c&DisplayLang=en) page 180 states that, in order to have RODC's deployed the PDCe must be Windows Server 2008 - this little caveat was removed during the beta phase - expect the document to be updated very soon and then my text will be worthless.


Regards,

Mark Parris