The Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner is designed for administrators who want to assess the overall health of their Active Directory and network infrastructure. The tool identifies common problems that can prevent your network environment from functioning properly.
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Here are the new security updates, click on hyperlinks for details and downloads. If you are a home user, Microsoft recommends using Windows Update to download and install all updates for greater security and flexibility.
- MS09-018 – Vulnerabilities in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (971055)
- MS09-019 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (969897)
- MS09-020 – Vulnerabilities in Internet Information Services (IIS) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (970483)
- MS09-021 – Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (969462)
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The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1 (ADMT v3.1) provides an integrated toolset to facilitate migration and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory Domain Services infrastructure.
The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1 (ADMT v3.1) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.1 to migrate users, groups, and computers between AD DS domains in different forests (inter-forest migration) or between AD DS domains in the same forest (intra-forest migration). ADMT can also perform security translation (to migrate local user profiles) when performing inter-forest migrations.
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This guide explains how to migrate user, group, and computer objects to an Active Directory domain. It includes user interface, command line, and scripting procedures for migrating from Windows NT 4 to an Active Directory domain, guidelines for migrating from an Active Directory domain to another Active Directory domain in the same forest (intraforest migration) or in a different forest (interforest migration). For an interforest migration, the guide explains how to migrate while using SID history and without using SID history.
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