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Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS)

Microsoft has released new version of Active
Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) which analyzes the
status of replication of all Domain Controllers in the Active Directory domain
or forest.

It is the advanced version of repadmin
. It displays output in a format which is similar to REPADMIN /SHOWREPL /*CSV
imported into Excel with significant enhancements.

Specific capabilities for
this tool include:

• Expose Active Directory
replication errors occurring in a domain or forest. .

• Prioritize errors that
need to be resolved in order to avoid the creation of lingering objects in
Active Directory forests.

• Help administrators and
support professionals resolve replication errors by linking to Active Directory
replication troubleshooting content on Microsoft TechNet. .

• Allow replication data
to be exported to source or destination domain administrators or support professionals
for offline analysis.

System
requirements

Supported
operating systems:Undefined, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8 Release
Preview, Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86), Windows Server
2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems, Windows Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista
Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional Edition

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 R2

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows 8 Release Preview

·
ADREPLSTATUS
does not install on server core installs of Windows.

·
Windows 2000
not supported due to lack of support for .NET Framework 4.0 Domain membership
requirements




Must be joined to the Active Directory domain or forest you intend to monitor

.NET Framework requirements:

.NET Framework 4.0

.NET Framework 3.5.1




The ADREPLSTATUS install routine will prompt for the installation of versions
as required. It may be necessary to manually install if there is no internet
access.

Required User Credentials:

Target forest/domain user
account; you must start the application using elevated credentials, by using
“Run as administrator”.




Supported DC OS versions that can be monitored by ADREPLSTATUS:

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 R2

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012 Release Preview

Windows 2000
not tested and is therefore not supported.



Other Requirements:

ADREPLSTATUS will not work when the following security setting is enabled on
the operating system:

            System cryptography: Use FIPS 140 compliant cryptographic
algorithms, including encryption, hashing and signing algorithms

The tool can be downloaded from MS Site

Kindle Fire – Tablet from Amazon

I’ve been using Amazon’s tablet Kindle Fire from past few  weeks and would like to share some information regarding the same.

The Kindle

Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon’s  Kindle e-book  reader
Hardware
Most Kindle Fire  devices employ a 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core  processor. The display is a 7 inches (180 mm) multi-touch color screen with a  600×1024 pixel resolution. Connectivity is through 802.11n Wi-Fi and USB 2.0  (Micro-B connector). The device includes 8 GB of internal storage — said to be  enough for 80 applications, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books. According  to Amazon’s list of technical details, the Kindle Fire’s 4400 mAh battery sustains up  to 8 hours of consecutive reading and up to 7.5 hours of video playback with wireless off.
Of the 8GB  internal storage, approximately 6.5GB is available for content.
Software
The Kindle Fire  runs a customized Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Along with  access to Amazon Appstore, the appstore service is only for  US customers) the Fire includes a cloud-accelerated “split browser”, Amazon Silk,  using Amazon  EC2 for off-device cloud computation; including webpage layout and  rendering, and Google’s SPDY  protocol for faster webpage content transmission. The user’s Amazon digital  content is given free storage in Amazon
Cloud‘s web-storage platform, 5GB Music storage in Amazon Cloud Drive, and a built-in email application allows webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Mail, etc.) to be merged into one inbox. The subscription-based Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, is available with a free trial period. The current version of the Kindle Fire OS as of May 3, 2012 is 6.3.1_user_4107720.
Content formats supported are Kindle Format 8 (KF8), Kindle Mobi (.azw), TXT, PDF, unrestricted MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
Because of Amazon’s USB driver implementation, the Kindle Fire suffers from slow USB transfer speeds. For example, transferring an 800MB video file may
take more than three minutes.
Services
Storage, Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Instant video, Amazon Silk, Amazon App Store, Amazon Kindle Store
Online
Amazon Prime, Amazon Cloud