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Many times in the last couple of years I have come across the message " The user does not exist or is not unique." It is usually on its own, with no other error messages or clues to deciphering its cryptic text. Generally I have had only limited success in getting past this error, usually getting...

One of the great new features of Server 2008 is the ability to implement fine-grained password policies (FGPP) using password settings objects (PSO). In English, you can specify account lockout, password complexity and history requirements via group memberships or directly applied to a user. Note, this...

I thought I'd already covered this, but a quick look through my history shows I didn't. Locking down a Web Application's people picker to a specific OU is very easy, but not well known. stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath -url http://WEBAPPLICATIONURL -path "OU=OU,DC=DOMAIN,DC...

As an alternate database, MPS/HMC/WBH stores details about some of the related objects in Active Directory. None of these details are stored in the MPS SQL databases from what I can see. These details are called service pointers. If you look in adsiedit.msc you will find them under the customers OU in...