This weekend I attended at the NIC2012 conference in Oslo.

Many interesting sessions were on the schedule like DS MVP Brian Desmond’s “What’s new in Windows Server 8 Active Directory” and “Kerberos uncovered”.

Key notes from WinServer 8 AD:

• USN Rollback preventions when restoring a snapshot (PDCe needs to be on a Win Server 8 DC)
• Support for cloning DCs (handy when you have to deploy dozens of them)
• GUI for the AD Recycle Bin and Fine Grained Password Policy
• Dcpromo.exe is gone (you promote a DC from the server manager)
• AD delivers the mechanism for file server access with Claims Based Authentication
• A huge amount of new Powershell cmdlets

Unfortunately it looks like the video for this session is missing, though I’d recommend you to have a look at some other sessions like:

“Kerberos uncovered” by Brian Desmond:
http://vimeo.com/nicconf/review/35059113/4695c41e86

”How to Not Screw Up Your PKI Environment“ by Brian Komar:
http://vimeo.com/nicconf/review/35053082/aaff51b192

“What’s new in Windows 8 Hyper-V” by Ronald Beeklaar:
http://vimeo.com/nicconf/review/35059126/939388d621

All sessions: http://www.nic2012.com/nic2012_agenda