Entries tagged with activedirectory - Channel 9

MS-DISO Presentation

Darryl Welch — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:58:00 GMT

Pilar Ackerman, Senior Program Manager, presented an Active Directory system overview and discusses this system overview document at the 2009 Active Directory Windows Protocols Plugfest. Richard Ward, Distinguished Engineer, answered protocol interoperability questions. MS-DISO, to be delivered in an upcoming Windows Protocol Document release, specifies how the protocols that comprise the offerings from Microsoft are used together to maintain a relationship with the domain. It also describes how protocols such as Netlogon RPC [MS-NRPC] are used to augment authentication and authorization actions, and how protocols such as Kerberos [MS-KILE] and LDAP [MS-ADTS] are used to interact with domain controllers.

Troubleshooting Active Directory Issues with Windows

Darryl Welch — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:57:00 GMT

Richard Guthrie, Escalation Engineer, presented a session covering debugging tools that can be used for troubleshooting Windows at the 2009 Active Directory Windows Protocols Plugfest. Richard answered windows debugging questions as well. Debugging with Windbg including assembly call stack analysis examples were provided. Tracing calls with Windows ETW and IDNA tracing were demonstrated. Provided a demonstration of a few resource kit tools commonly used for Windows debugging as well as some sysinternals tools (process monitor & filemon).

MS-ADSO Presentation

Darryl Welch — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:57:00 GMT

Nathan Muggli, Lead Program Manager, presented a discussion of MS-ADSO, a system overview document at the 2009 Active Directory Windows Protocols Plugfest. Suneel Parthasarathy, Lead Developer, and Matthew Rimer, Senior Developer, answered protocol interoperability questions. MS-ASDO, to be delivered in an upcoming Windows Protocol Document release, describes the relationships of the system of protocols that comprise client-server behavior of the Active Directory System. MS-ADSO describes the intended client-server functionality of the Active Directory System and how the protocols in this system interact. System architecture, abstract data models and use cases including domain join are covered as well.

Active Directory and Security Windows 7 Protocol Document Changes

Darryl Welch — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:55:00 GMT

At the 2009 Active Directory Windows Protocols Plugfest Nathan Muggli, Senior Program Manager, Michiko Short, and Suneel Parthasarathy, Lead Developer, presented an overview of the changes to the protocol documentation that correspond to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

geekSpeak Recording: Custom Authentication Providers for SharePoint Server 2007 with Ron Rohlfs

glengo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:33:05 GMT

This geekSpeak, hosted by Microsoft Developer Evangelists Glen Gordon and G. Andrew Duthie, features Ron Rohlfs, practice area lead with InterKnowlogy.

Ron spends a lot of time architecting Sharepoint solutions for customers. In this geekSpeak, Ron shares some insight into one approach to solving the enterprise problem of managing the sharing of information on your intranet, but also with customers and vendors outsider your organization. Here’s the problem space, in Ron’s words:

It is not uncommon for a business to deliver web based content to multiple groups of end users. For example, a business may wish to deliver content to both internal employees on its intranet, and external users such as clients or vendors on an extranet or a publicly accessible Internet site. In these cases, it is often desirable to use multiple means for authentication. Many businesses authenticate its internal employees against Active Directory. However, it may not be desirable to add extranet users to Active Directory. Extranet users, such as clients or vendors, tend to turn over more rapidly than employees, requiring continuous updating. Furthermore, exposing Active Directory over a publicly accessible site may be associated with an unacceptable level of security risk.

Specifically Ron shows how to have some users authenticated against Active Directory while some users are authenticated against a custom provider. Thanks to the tight integration between Sharepoint 2007 and ASP.NET this is now much more straightforward than in the past. We were fascinated to realize that you can tie Sharepoint right into the good ol’ provider model of Membership and Personalization in ASP.NET. Who’d have thought you’d be using the ASP.NET configuration tool to manage users for Sharepoint site?

Ron has some invaluable guidance for dealing with the Site Collection Administrator when switching membership providers. Ron also warns of a gotcha around membership provide, role provider and site administrator. Sprinkled into the conversation are some good tips on managing SQL Express connections string, web.config files, and more.

So if you can get through the technology experts fumbling around briefly in PowerPoint during the recording, you’ll be rewarded with some useful information. :)

Don't forget to visit our geekSpeak blog for information on upcoming live geekSpeaks where you can get your questions answered real-time.

Dmitry Sotnikov: Using Windows PowerShell to manage Windows Server 2008 Active Directory and Read-On

Charles — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:48:32 GMT

Windows PowerShell is included as part of Windows Server 2008. Join Dmitry Sotnikov from Quest Software and Scott Ottaway from Microsoft as they demonstrate the use of Windows PowerShell to manage new features in Server 2008 including new Active Directory features and Read-Only Domain Controllers.

Go to http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/arms.aspx to download the free Quest Software Active Directory cmdlets and their free GUI for executing PowerShell cmdlets and writing Windows PowerShell scripts.

TechNet Radio: Windows Branch Office Scenarios

erickingfrog — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:13:14 GMT

Matt Hester talks with Patrick Hevesi about Branch Office. They discuss the five main scenarios all branch offices face, and how Microsoft’s Branch Office offerings address these challenges. Windows Server Virtualizaion, Componentization and Security are all discussed.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer
Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist
Patrick Hevesi – Enterprise Technology Strategist

TechNet Radio: Microsoft Debuts Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0

erickingfrog — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:37:44 GMT

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 is now available for download. This popular Windows Vista deployment tool offers IT professionals a quick way to assess their existing computers’ readiness for Windows Vista in terms of hardware and device compatibility. The new version provides selective inventory, enhanced scalability for larger corporate networks and assessment for Office 2007.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Baldwin Ng – Senior Product Manager for the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team

LitwareHR SaaS Sample Application - Datacenter Provisioning

aschapiro — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:56:52 GMT

This screencast shows in detail the actions performed by the script in charge of setting up the structure needed to support LitwareHR's application.
This is what we call "Datacenter Provisioning" and creates databases in SQL server, users and roles structures in the ADAM and websites in the IIS.
After this Datacenter Provisioning is done, each tenant will be able to perform a "Tenant Provisioning" which will add tenant information in those repositories and will let the tenant to start trying the application.

Visit LitwareHR community site at codeplex to download the code, get more information and news, to participate in discussions, ask for features or report bugs.

Duration: 10:25

TechNet Radio - Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management

auroraqueen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:11:19 GMT

Blain Barton continues his conversation on Group Policy, discussing how Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management increases administrators’ control over managing Group Policy objects. He speaks with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Winni Verhoef, a Senior Product Manager focused on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and the underlying components of Advanced Group Policy Management. They talk about the difference between what Windows Server does already with Active Directory and GPMC and what’s in the Advanced Group Policy Management as well as workflow management, offline editing, versioning, the roll-back mechanism and what’s new in relation to Windows Vista.

Plus we have our monthly segment with Kai Axford and Mark Griesi from the Security Response Team, discussing the February Security Bulletin.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Blain Barton – IT Pro Evangelist

Kevin Sullivan – Kevin has been working in the technology field focused on Microsoft management technologies since the early ‘90s. With IBM Global Services he worked on many Standard Desktop projects and SMS roll outs beginning prior to SMS 1.0. He began training and consulting on SMS, Windows and eventually Windows 2000 and Active Directory. Group Policy was a relatively heavy focus for customers as it was new, it was very different from System Policies and it was essentially a part of the Active Directory offering which was a huge paradigm shift for IT organizations. In the last seven years he’s worked for software companies as a Technical Product Manager assisting in all facets of product development. Working with developers to help them understand the customer needs has been a major focus of his work along with being a bit of a technical evangelist. Helping customers understand how Microsoft’s technologies fit into their environments has always been a critical component of his work.

Winni Verhoef – Winni Verhoef started his career at Microsoft 8 years ago in The Netherlands as an Evangelist. In that role, he promoted Microsoft’s client products to audiences in various programs (TS2 like) until he shifted to educating partners on the server side with the introduction of Windows 2000 Server. Later, Winni joined marketing and managed several Microsoft server products. He then moved to the US 2 years ago and into the client group since less than a year. After some successful projects like Windows Vista Registration and the Windows Vista Product Guide, he is now focusing on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, in particular the underlying components of Advanced Group Policy Management and Asset Inventory Services.

Kai Axford – Kai Axford is a Sr. Security Strategist at Microsoft.

Mark Griesi – Mark Griesi is a Security Product Manager on the Security Response Team at Microsoft.

お客様インタビュー: 日本アムウェイ株式会社 ActiveDirectory運用ソリューション　by クエスト・ソフトウェア株式会社

c9Japan — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:59:44 GMT

マイクロソフトのパートナー企業でありますクエスト・ソフトウェア株式会社様のご協力により、日本アムウェイ株式会社様のインタビューを実施しました。

日本アムウェイ株式会社様が直面したActive Directoryの運用管理においての問題をクエスト・ソフトウェア株式会社様のQuest Reporterという製品によって解決した事例ならびに、日本アムウェイ株式会社様からマイクロソフトの製品やサポートに対してどのようなイメージをもたれているかなどについて取材しました。

関連サイト：
日本アムウェイ株式会社
http://www.amway.co.jp/

クエスト・ソフトウェア株式会社
http://www.quest.com/japan/
Quest Reporter
http://www.quest.com/japan/reporter/
【導入事例】Amway 「Quest Reporter」を導入!
http://www.quest.com/japan/reporter/AmwayCaseStudy.pdf

衛藤さんとアーロンさん: ActiveDirectory振り仮名サポート

c9Japan — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:20:54 GMT

ActiveDirectoryの新機能について取材を行いました。
新しいActiveDirectoryでは、日本語のふりがなをサポートします（ひらがな、カタカナ）。このビデオではWindowsの開発チームのお二人に取材し、デモを交えて新機能を紹介いただきます。