Nov 12 2009

Granular Password Policies

Tag: Access & Identity ManagementErik Gilreath @ 2:46 pm

One of the new features of Active Directory in Server 2008 was the ability to create a granular password policy.  Prior to this, password policies could only be applied at the domain level.  This meant that if you needed to have multiple enforceable password policies, you were required to have multiple domains – one for each password policy that was required.  With the addition of granular password policies, you can create several different policies and apply them to individual users or groups.  This allows a lot more flexibility for administrators.

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Jun 29 2009

Correcting Event ID 51 Errors after P2V

Tag: InfrastructureErik Gilreath @ 1:34 pm

I was recently pulled in on a project to assist with troubleshooting performance issues on a large number of Citrix servers that had recently gone through the P2V process (physical to virtual).  After the process the servers were running quite slowly. 

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