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	<title>Web Active Directory Blog &#187; Active Directory Health Check</title>
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		<title>How to Troubleshoot Slow LDAP Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critical must read for you Active Directory admins!  How to troubleshoot or even just detect slow LDAP searches. http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=246<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=323&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Audit GPO Inheritance with Powershell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m working on my next Active Directory Health Check article and I came across this article which applies to one of the areas we review as part of an Active Directory Health Check. Check it out! http://daniellange.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/auditing-gpo-inheritance-with-powershell/ For more information contact us at www.webactivedirectory.com, or call us at (+1) 800-747-3565<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=300&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Active Directory Design Guide</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/03/10/active-directory-design-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s great to see Microsoft publish a design guide for Active Directory.  I haven’t read all of it yet but I do like that the guidance is specific to different business verticals and scenarios. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&#38;FamilyID=88f0184c-8f03-4f0f-b3f9-5109255fb461<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=259&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naming conventions in Active Directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what characters are valid in domain names, netbios names, Active Directory sites, etc?  Well you don’t have to guess, Microsoft has a knowledgebase article with the standards already defined for you. Pay special attention to name collisions in the directory and the reserved words when defining OU names. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264 For more information contact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=221&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Domain and forest functionality levels</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/03/05/domain-and-forest-functionality-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw a post on this and so it got me interested in where this data is stored and where on the MSDN site I could find it.  I have found that if you ask a company what forest and domain functionality level they are at you will probably get a different answer from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=219&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When to use OUs in Active Directory</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/03/05/when-to-use-ous-in-active-directory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been something that has bugged me for quite a while, when I see environments where Active Directory OU’s have been created to reflect the organization structure, whether that be departments or physical locations, I always wonder why someone would choose this model and if they really understand the features and functions in Active [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=222&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powershell script to view and set the Default Domain Password Policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/03/04/powershell-script-to-view-and-set-the-default-domain-password-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it’s important that everything you can do in a GUI can be done in Powershell and this is quickly becoming a reality for all Microsoft products.  This Powershell script allows you to quickly report on an Active Directory Default Domain Password Policy and change it…all with Powershell.  Use this in your Active Directory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=216&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Active Directory Health Check part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/02/02/active-directory-health-check-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last post Permanent Link to Active Directory Health Check part 1 I wrote about the reasons companies commonly want to perform an Active Directory Health Check, if I’ve overlooked any common reason you think should be included please shoot me an email: dan.brinkmann@webactivedirectory.com To review, the major components we’ll be covering in our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=152&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Active Directory Health Check part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/01/21/active-directory-health-check-part1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Active Directory seems to be one of those products that everyone has, is using, but never quite fully understands.  I used to know someone who explained oddities in Active Directory as “ripples”, in reality it wasn’t ripples, it was replication latency and urgent change notification.  Microsoft Active Directory is definitely a complex product, its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=138&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Active Directory Health Check Series</title>
		<link>http://blog.webactivedirectory.com/2010/01/07/active-directory-health-check-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Brinkmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just curious how people feel about Active Directory Health Checks?  At Web Active Directory we have a significant amount of experience performing a multitude of Active Directory troubleshooting and I know that Microsoft and Microsoft partners offer Active Directory Health Checks&#8230;so how many of you are interested in a tool to perform your own Active [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.webactivedirectory.com&amp;blog=10038206&amp;post=116&amp;subd=webactivedirectory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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