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Oh what fun! After many hours of pain in trying to work out why I couldn't install the new version of DNSClient.msi I finally got it working. As it turns out the provider requires you to have the "Default Web Site" set to "(All Unassigned)" in the "IP Address" field...

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...

In Active Directory there is an attribute named "otherWellKnownObjects" which is not very well documented but put simply is used to reference other related objects. When talking about otherWellKnownObjects you will also hear about a term "Well Known GUID". Well Known GUIDs define...

When migrating from Microsoft HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0 you may come across a little utility named DTMU.exe. For those who are interested in what the DTMU tool does or are trying to work out what it is doing in the case that it fails, here you are; DTMU –PrepareAD Renames the "CN=MPS Server Config Entity...