Windows Server 2008 ships with the Reliability and Performance Monitor (RPM) snap-in.  On DCs, RPM incorporates an Active Directory Diagnostics feature that includes the abilility to track LDAP searches against a DC.  The amount of information captured can be very useful when troubleshooting LDAP issues.

This article provides a step by step guide on how to use RPM to track LDAP searches.

Provides a step-by-step tutorial of how to make bulk changes using the ADModify tool

This article describes an unexpected behaviour of ADMT v3 and how to work around it.

This article describes the steps necessary to setup authentication and authorization to Active Directory from a Cisco device running IOS.

There are known problems with performing certain Active Directory tasks with DCs running on VMWare, such as DC promotion and trust establishment. This article provides instructions on how to remove the shared folder feature, which is part of VMWare Tools.

Have you ever wanted to log all LDAP searches against a Domain Controller or an ADAM instance? This article describes how to do this.

If you have more than one AD site you may find that account lockouts and unlocks take some time to replicate to the remote site(s). This article explains why this can happen and shows how to enable change notification on inter-site links to allow the urgent replication of account lockout status.

Explains the concept of linked attributes, provides examples and shows where and how to find them in AD.

The article provides information about moving (transfering or seizing) FSMO roles from one DC to another DC