Sean Deuby

Sean Deuby, technical director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro, has over 25 years' experience in enterprise IT. He began his IT career running Texas Instruments' IBM VM systems, then helped design, deploy, and support TI's first Windows NT 3.5 worldwide infrastructure. He spent 10 years with Intel Corporation, where he was one of the architects of Intel's corporate Active Directory forest and the design engineer of the directory services team. A longtime contributing editor before joining the magazine, Sean has written many articles and a book on Windows Server and Active Directory, and speaks on these topics at conferences around the world. Microsoft has awarded Sean the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) distinction for directory services every year since 2004.

Articles by Sean Deuby
Microsoft Reinforces the Cloud OS Message at MMS 2013
I recently attended the 2013 version of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas to check up on the progress Microsoft has made evangelizing System Center 2012, and how the community was reacting to it and the grander Cloud OS vision.
Windows Azure Active Directory: The Giant Slowly Awakens
Windows Azure Active Directory has been released for general availability, but Azure AD has long been in production.
Peeking Into the Future of Identity
At the recent RSA Conference, several themes emerged about the direction and future of cloud identity.
Active Directory Claims Windows Server 2012 File Service Access Control
Use Active Directory Claims for Windows Server 2012 File Service Access Control 
You can use new claims and conditional expressions support in Windows Server 2012 file services to simplify your file server access control model.
Active Directory forest
Enable Claims Support in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory  1
A new, lesser-known feature in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is support for claims-based authentication.
7 More Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2012 Active Directory
Which new Windows Server 2012 features require, or benefit from, an Active Directory upgrade?
Reflections on RSA Conference 2013
RSA Conference 2013 is bigger than ever, as recent news events show that all businesses need to be concerned about their security.
Windows Server 2012 Deployment 
This guide can speed up the development of your Windows Server 2012 deployment strategy by providing the information you'll need to answer questions such as "Can I deploy Server 2012 on my existing hardware?" and "How well will Server 2012 play with my deployed applications?"
A New Approach to Identity Management
Determine where various types of IDaaS offerings fit into your existing identity management architecture.
Troubleshooting Active Directory 

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Active Directory has become a key piece of the modern IT infrastructure. It's a mission-critical system by anyone's definition – if Active Directory is not working, no one can log on to the network. Learn how to keep Active Directory working.

Microsoft Formally Announces Its “Cloud OS” Strategy
Today Microsoft announced new capabilities for managing mobile devices from the cloud, and its overall vision for integrating the customer data center, the Azure public cloud, and third-party service providers with Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.
Windows Azure Active Directory In About Ten Minutes
Even though Microsoft took the covers off several months ago, Windows Azure Active Directory is still a great unknown to the vast majority of AD administrators. Today I watched a great video posted by an MSDN cloud computing evangelist for Microsoft UK that describes Windows Azure Active Directory.
Insights from Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit 2012
IT pros and their managers are getting increasing management attention on the need for Identity and Access Management (IAM) guidance.
Hyper-V Replica for Disaster Recovery 2
Windows Server 2012's Hyper-V Replica provides a strong benefit for small and medium businesses that need disaster recovery capabilities but can’t afford to spend deeply on infrastructure and software for highly sophisticated solutions.
Active Directory Disaster Recovery in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy 4
Hurricane Sandy has started a lot of discussion about disaster recovery. Sadly, most companies still aren’t well prepared for such an event.
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May 2013 - The NameTranslate object is useful when you need to translate Active Directory object names between different formats, but it's awkward to use from PowerShell. Here's a PowerShell script that eliminates the awkwardness.

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