Category: Active Directory

Add User to Group Automated Request Offering Walkthrough

Another great blog post from SCSM Team blog. Read the complete guide here.

Service Offering for Password Reset in SCSM Self-Service Portal

Another very useful article for real world scenarios by Anders Bengtsson titled “Password reset with the Service Manager self-service portal”. He is also providing the runbook for password reset for download.

Many thanks to Anders for sharing his work with the community.

Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design documents

If you do not know from where to start about implementing a particular technology Microsoft is providing help for that. Microsoft has made free to download Infrastructure Planning and Design documents for theirs most popular technologies. The documents are for the current RTM versions of the products. Click on the link and start to plan and design.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=732

Active Directory MP version 6.0.7822.0 Released

A new version of AD MP has been released. Here are the changes that were made in this revision:

  • Corrected some Publisher names (for example, changed from PublisherName=KDC to PublisherName=Microsoft-Windows-Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center).
  • Updated rules to generate Alerts and not only go to the Event Viewer.
  • Removed unnecessary check for Event Source Name for all NTDS rules (for example, removed EventSourceName=”NTDS General”).
  • Corrected event parameter validation.
  • Updated queries to search for correct event IDs.
  • Fixed spelling errors.
  • Added missing descriptions to rules.
  • Fixed problems with Health Monitoring scripts.
  • Removed user name checks from Userenv rules.

    • You can download the MP and the documentation from the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=21357