Wired Life in the Roanoke Valley

SIA 326 is one of the TechED sessions you sit through and then, once it is done, you think to yourself, “this should have been a 20 minute presentation.” How did it stretch to fill the allotted 1 hour and 15 minutes? Questions. Lots and lots of audience questions. Here is a simple rule for attendees: unless your question applies to all people in all circumstances, save it for the TLC. Honestly, we wasted about 25 minutes chasing rabbits.

Regardless, here are the takeaways from the session:

• AD now supports a ton of Powershell commands.
• AD now has a recycle bin (awesome). This is not enabled by default so don’t assume that, once you have upgraded, it will be working.
• AD now supports managed service accounts (it will change the passwords for you much like it maintains computer accounts now).
• AD now has the Powershell Administrative Center (which replaces the mmc based stuff).
• AD now has a well developed best practice analyzer.
• AD now supports offline domain joins.
• AD provides authentication assurance.
• AD now allows for DSRM password synchronization with an account.

Most, if not all, of these features are going to require a Windows Server 2008 R2 functional level to enable.

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