I haven’t created a written post in quite a while, but as I was looking for resources on this topic, I realized there could be more out there. This post is about customizing the login pages for Active Directory Federation Services or ADFS. We recently …

I was recently commissioned to migrate a file server for a client from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008.  A straightforward migration, I went ahead with the migration as I usually would, created the shares on the destination (hidden using the …

After a recent server migration from SBS2005 to SBS 2008, I ran into an issue where users were not able to download the offline address book.  They would continue to receive Sync Issues consisting of the message “Microsoft Exchange Offline Address Book …

A while back I came across an issue while trying to create a two-way trasitive trust between two forests.  While attempting to create the trust, one direction of it would validate successfully while one direction would always fail, and I received this …

If you’ve worked with connecting to Active Directory using an LDAP connection, you know that the unsecured LDAP connection port is 389, and the secured connection port is 636.  One thing that you may not have come across is when you have a Domain Contr …

Recently, while I was trying to clear off space on the system drive of a client’s server, I found that the file hiberfil.sys (hibernation File) existed there, and was the same size as the page file (which was about 10GB).  I was curious as to why this …

Recently I have been playing around with Terminal Services 2008, mostly the application publishing side of it, as I have grown a great hatred for Citrix.  Though Citrix does run well when it is working, in my experience it breaks often and is a PITA to …

Recently we were approached by a long-time client who was merging with another company, and they had mutually decided to keep the other company’s internal domain, which would force our client to migrate to their domain.  They also wanted to upgrade fro …

We recently began the process of moving one of our clients from a Server 2003 terminal server environment to a Server 2008 terminal server environment to take advantage of some of the new features including Session Broker.  One of the softwares that th …

This post is regarding a constant login prompt issue that appears while using Outlook 2007 SP2 with Outlook Anywhere and Exchange 2007 SP1 on Server 2008 with IIS7. We took on a new client recently after handling an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migra …