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Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring
Question No: 11 – (Topic 1)
Your company has two Active Directory forests named Forest1 and Forest2, The forest functional level and the domain functional level of Forest1 are set to Windows Server 2008.
The forest functional level of Forest2 is set to Windows 2000, and the domain functional levels in Forest2 are set to Windows Server 2003.
You need to set up a transitive forest trust between Forest1 and Forest2. What should you do first?
Raise the forest functional level of Forest2 to Windows Server 2003 Interim mode.
Raise the forest functional level of Forest2 to Windows Server 2003.
Upgrade the domain controllers in Forest2 to Windows Server 2008.
Upgrade the domain controllers in Forest2 to Windows Server 2003.
Answer: B
Creating Forest Trusts
You can link two disjoined Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forests together to form a one-way or two-way, transitive trust relationship.
The following are required to create forest trusts successfully:
You can create a forest trust between two Windows Server 2003 forests, between two Windows Server 2008 forests, between two Windows Server 2008 R2 forests, between a Windows Server 2003 forest and a Windows Server 2008 forest, between a Windows Server 2003 forest and a Windows Server 2008 R2 forest, or between a Windows Server 2008 forest and a Windows Server 2008 R2 forest. Forest trusts cannot be extended implicitly to a third forest.
To create a forest trust, the minimum forest functional level for the forests that are involved in the trust relationship is Windows Server 2003.
Question No: 12 – (Topic 1)
Your company has an Active Directory domain.
You plan to install the Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) server role on a member server that runs Windows Server 2008 R2.
You need to ensure that members of the Account Operators group are able to issue smartcard credentials.They should not be able to revoke certificates.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
Create an Enrollment Agent certificate.
Create a Smartcard logon certificate.
Restrict enrollment agents for the Smartcard logon certificate to the Account Operator group.
Install the AD CS role and configure it as an Enterprise Root CA.
Install the AD CS role and configure it as a Standalone CA.
Restrict certificate managers for the Smartcard logon certificate to the Account Operator group.
Answer: B,C,D Explanation:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753800(v=ws.10).aspx AD CS: Restricted Enrollment Agent
The restricted enrollment agent is a new functionality in the Windows Server庐 2008 Enterprise operating system that allows limiting the permissions that users designated as enrollment agents have for enrolling smart card certificates on behalf of other users.
What does the restricted enrollment agent do?
Enrollment agents are one or more authorized individuals within an organization. The enrollment agent needs to be issued an enrollment agent certificate, which enables the agent to enroll for smart card certificates on behalf of users. Enrollment agents are typically members of the corporate security, Information Technology (IT) security, or help desk teams because these individuals have already been trusted with safeguarding valuable resources. In some organizations, such as banks that have many branches, help desk and security workers might not be conveniently located to perform this task. In this case, designating a branch manager or other trusted employee to act as an enrollment agent is required to enable smart card credentials to be issued from multiple locations.
On a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise-based certification authority (CA), the restricted enrollment agent features allow an enrollment agent to be used for one or many certificate templates. For each certificate template, you can choose which users or security groups the enrollment agent can enroll on behalf of. You cannot constrain an enrollment agent
based on a certain Active Directory庐 organizational unit (OU) or container; you must use security groups instead. The restricted enrollment agent is not available on a Windows
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776874(v=ws.10).aspx Enterprise certification authorities
The Enterprise Administrator can install Certificate Services to create an enterprise certification authority (CA).
Enterprise CAs can issue certificates for purposes such as digital signatures, secure e-mail using S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), authentication to a secure Web server using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) and logging on to a Windows Server 2003 family domain using a smart card.
An enterprise CA has the following features:
An enterprise CA requires the Active Directory directory service.
When you install an enterprise root CA, it uses Group Policy to propagate its certificate to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store for all users and computers in the domain. You must be a Domain Administrator or be an administrator with write access to Active Directory to install an enterprise root CA.
Certificates can be issued for logging on to a Windows Server 2003 family domain using smart cards. The enterprise exit module publishes user certificates and the certificate revocation list (CRL) to Active Directory. In order to publish certificates to Active Directory, the server that the CA is installed on must be a member of the Certificate Publishers group. This is automatic for the domain the server is in, but the server must be delegated the proper security permissions to publish certificates in other domains. For more information about the exit module, see Policy and exit modules.
An enterprise CA uses certificate types, which are based on a certificate template. The following functionality is possible when you use certificate templates:
Enterprise CAs enforce credential checks on users during certificate enrollment. Each certificate template has a security permission set in Active Directory that determines whether the certificate requester is authorized to receive the type of certificate they have requested.
The certificate subject name can be generated automatically from the information in Active Directory or supplied explicitly by the requestor.
The policy module adds a predefined list of certificate extensions to the issued certificate. The extensions are defined by the certificate template. This reduces the amount of information a certificate requester has to provide about the certificate and its intended use. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc780501(WS.10).aspx
Stand-alone certification authorities
You can install Certificate Services to create a stand-alone certification authority (CA).
Stand-alone CAs can issue certificates for purposes such as digital signatures, secure e- mail using S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions) and authentication to a secure Web server using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS).
A stand-alone CA has the following characteristics:
Unlike an enterprise CA, a stand-alone CA does not require the use of the Active Directory directory service. Stand-alone CAs are primarily intended to be used as Trusted Offline Root CAs in a CA hierarchy or when extranets and the Internet are involved. Additionally, if you want to use a custom policy module for a CA, you would first install a stand-alone CA and then replace the stand-alone policy module with your custom policy module.
When submitting a certificate request to a stand-alone CA, a certificate requester must explicitly supply all identifying information about themselves and the type of certificate that is wanted in the certificate request. (This does not need to be done when submitting a request to an enterprise CA, since the enterprise user#39;s information is already in Active Directory and the certificate type is described by a certificate template). The authentication information for requests is obtained from the local computer#39;s Security Accounts Manager database.
By default, all certificate requests sent to the stand-alone CA are set to Pending until the administrator of the stand-alone CA verifies the identity of the requester and approves the request. This is done for security reasons, because the certificate requester#39;s credentials are not verified by the stand-alone CA. Certificate templates are not used.
No certificates can be issued for logging on to a Windows Server 2003 family domain using smart cards, but other types of certificates can be issued and stored on a smart card.
The administrator has to explicitly distribute the stand-alone CA#39;s certificate to the domain user#39;s trusted root store or users must perform that task themselves.
When a stand-alone CA uses Active Directory, it has these additional features:
If a member of the Domain Administrators group or an administrator with write access to Active Directory, installs a stand-alone root CA, it is automatically added to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store for all users and computers in the domain. For this reason, if you install a stand-alone root CA in an Active Directory domain, you should not change the default action of the CA upon receiving certificate requests (which marks requests as Pending). Otherwise, you will have a trusted root CA that automatically issues certificates without verifying the identity of the certificate requester.
If a stand-alone CA is installed by a member of the Domain Administrators group of the parent domain of a tree in the enterprise, or by an administrator with write access to Active Directory, then the stand-alone CA will publish its CA certificate and the certificate revocation list (CRL) to Active Directory.
Question No: 13 – (Topic 1)
Your company has an Active Directory domain. All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2. Your company runs an Enterprise Root certification authority (CA).
You need to ensure that only administrators can sign code.
Which two tasks should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
Edit the local computer policy of the Enterprise Root CA to allow only administrators to manage Trusted Publishers.
Modify the security settings on the template to allow only administrators to request code signing certificates.
Edit the local computer policy of the Enterprise Root CA to allow users to trust peer certificates and allow only administrators to apply the policy.
Publish the code signing template.
Answer: B,D Explanation:
Generating and working with code signing certificates
A code signing certificate is a security measure designed to assist in the prevention of malicious code execution. The intention is that code must be "signed" with a certificate that is trusted by the machine on which the code is executed. The trust is verified by contacting the certification authority for the certificate, which could be either a local (on the machine itself, such as a self-signed certificate), internal (on the domain, such as an enterprise certification authority) or external certification authority (third party, such as Verisign or Thawte).
For an Active Directory domain with an enterprise root certification authority, the enterprise root certification authority infrastructure is trusted by all machines that are a member of the Active Directory domain, and therefore any certificates issued by this certification authority are automatically trusted.
In the case of code signing, it may be necessary also for the issued certificate to be in the "Trusted Publishers" store of the local machine in order to avoid any prompts upon executing code, even if the certificate was issued by a trusted certification authority.
Therefore, it is required to ensure that certificates are added to this store where user interaction is unavailable, such as running automated processes that call signed code.
A certificate can be assigned to a user or a computer, which will then be the "publisher" of
the code in question.
Generally, this should be the user, and the user will then become the trusted publisher. As an example, members of the development team in your organisation will probably each have their own code signing certificate, which would all be added to the "Trusted Publishers" store on the domain machines. Alternatively, a special domain account might exist specifically for signing code, although one of the advantages of code signing is to be able to determine the person who signed it.
Question No: 14 – (Topic 1)
Your company purchases a new application to deploy on 200 computers. The application requires that you modify the registry on each target computer before you install the application.
The registry modifications are in a file that has an .adm extension. You need to prepare the target computers for the application.
What should you do?
Import the .adm file into a new Group Policy Object (GPO). Edit the GPO and link it to an organizational unit that contains the target computers.
Create a Microsoft Windows PowerShell script to copy the .adm file to each computer. Run the REDIRUsr CONTAINER-DN command on each target computer.
Create a Microsoft Windows PowerShell script to copy the .adm file to the startup folder of each target computer.
Create a Microsoft Windows PowerShell script to copy the .adm file to each computer. Run the REDIRCmp CONTAINER-DN command on each target computer.
Answer: A Explanation:
http://www.petri.co.il/adding_new_administrative_templates_to_gpo.htm Adding New Administrative Templates to a GPO
Adding .ADM files to the Administrative Templates in a GPO
In order to add additional .ADM files to the existing Administrative Templates section in GPO please follow the next steps:
Open the Group Policy Management Console (or GPMC) from the Administrative Tools
folder in the Stat menu, or by typing gpmc.msc in the Run command.
Right-click an existing GPO (or create an new GPO, then right-click on it) and select Edit.
Question No: 15 – (Topic 1)
Your company has an Active Directory domain. A user attempts to log on to a computer that was turned off for twelve weeks. The administrator receives an error message that authentication has failed.
You need to ensure that the user is able to log on to the computer. What should you do?
Run the netsh command with the set and machine options.
Reset the computer account. Disjoin the computer from the domain, and then rejoin the computer to the domain.
Run the netdom TRUST /reset command.
Run the Active Directory Users and Computers console to disable, and then enable the computer account.
Answer: B Explanation:
Answer: Reset the computer account. Disjoin the computer from the domain, and then rejoin the computer to the domain.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9157.trust-relationship-between- workstation-andprimary-domain-failed.aspx
Trust Relationship between Workstation and Primary Domain failed
What are the common causes which generates this message on client systems?
There might be multiple reasons for this kind of behaviour. Below are listed a few of them:
Single SID has been assigned to multiple computers.
If the Secure Channel is Broken between Domain controller and workstations
If there are no SPN or DNSHost Name mentioned in the computer account attributes
Outdated NIC Drivers.
How to Troubleshoot this behaviour?
If the Secure Channel is Broken between Domain controller and workstations
When a Computer account is joined to the domain, Secure Channel password is stored with computer account in domain controller. By default this password will change every 30 days (This is an automatic process, no manual intervention is required). Upon starting the computer, Netlogon attempts to discover a DC for the domain in which its machine account exists. After locating the appropriate DC, the machine account password from the workstation is authenticated against the password on the DC.
If there are problems with system time, DNS configuration or other settings, secure channel's password between Workstation and DCs may not synchronize with each other. A common cause of broken secure channel [machine account password] is that the secure channel password held by the domain member does not match that held by the AD. Often, this is caused by performing a Windows System Restore (or reverting to previous backup or snapshot) on the member machine, causing an old (previous) machine account password to be presented to the AD.
Most simple resolution would be unjoin/disjoin the computer from the domain and rejoin the computer account back to the domain. (this is a somewhat similar principle to performing a password reset for a user account)
You can go ahead and reset the computer account using netdom.exe tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772217(v=ws.10).aspx Netdom
Enables administrators to manage Active Directory domains and trust relationships from the command prompt.
Netdom is a command-line tool that is built into Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It is available if you have the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) server role installed. It is also available if you install the Active Directory Domain Services Tools that are part of the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT).
You can use netdom to:
Join a computer that runs Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 to a Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0 domain. Manage computer accounts for domain member workstations and member servers. Management operations include:
Establish one-way or two-way trust relationships between domains, including the following kinds of trust relationships:
Verify or reset the secure channel for the following configurations:
Member workstations and servers.
Backup domain controllers (BDCs) in a Windows NT 4.0 domain.
Specific Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 replicas.
Manage trust relationships between domains.
NetDom lt;Operationgt; [lt;Computergt;] [{/d: | /domain:} lt;Domaingt;] [lt;Optionsgt;] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788073(v=ws.10).aspx Netdom reset Resets the secure connection between a workstation and a domain controller.
Syntax netdom reset lt;Computergt; {/d: | /domain:}lt;Domaingt; [{/s: | /server:}lt;Servergt;] [{/uo: |
/usero:}lt;Usergt; {/po: | / passwordo}{lt;Passwordgt;|*}] [{/help | /?}] Further information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835085(v=ws.10).aspx Netdom trust
Establishes, verifies, or resets a trust relationship between domains.
Syntax netdom trust lt;TrustingDomainNamegt; {/d: | /domain:} lt;TrustedDomainNamegt; [{/ud:
| /userd:}[lt;Domaingt;\]lt;Usergt; [{/pd: | /passwordd:}{lt;Passwordgt;|*}] [{/uo: | /usero:}lt;Usergt;] [{/po: | /passwordo:}{lt;Passwordgt;|*}] [/verify] [/reset] [/passwordt:lt;NewRealmTrustPasswordgt;] [/add [/realm]] [/remove [/force]] [/twoway] [/kerberos] [/transitive[:{YES|NO}]] [/oneside:{TRUSTED | TRUSTING}] [/force] [/quarantine[:{YES | NO}]] [/namesuffixes:lt;TrustNamegt; [/togglesuffix:#]] [/EnableSIDHistory] [/ForestTRANsitive] [/SelectiveAUTH][/AddTLN][/AddTLNEX][/RemoveTLN] [/RemoveTLNEX][{/help | /?}]
Question No: 16 – (Topic 1)
Your company has an Active Directory forest.
You plan to install an Enterprise certification authority (CA) on a dedicated stand-alone server.
When you attempt to add the Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) role, you find that the Enterprise CA option is not available.
You need to install the AD CS role as an Enterprise CA. What should you do first?
Add the DNS Server role.
Add the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) role.
Add the Web server (IIS) role and the AD CS role.
Join the server to the domain.
Answer: D Explanation:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772393(v=ws.10).aspx Active Directory Certificate Services Step-by-Step Guide
http://kazmierczak.eu/itblog/2012/09/23/enterprise-ca-option-is-greyed-out-unavailable/ Enterprise CA option is greyed out / unavailable
Many times, administrators ask me what to do when installing Active Directory Certificate Services they cannot choose to install Enterprise Certification Authority, because it's unavailable as in following picture:
C:\Documents and Settings\usernwz1\Desktop\1.PNG Well, you need to fulfill basic requirements:
Server machine has to be a member server (domain joined).
You can run an Enterprise CA on the Standard, Enterprise, or Data Center Windows Edition. The difference is the number of ADCS features and components that can be enabled. To get full functionality, you need to run on Enterprise or Data Center Windows Server 2008 /R2/ Editions. It includes functionality like Role separation, Certificate manager restrictions, Delegated enrollment agent restrictions, Certificate enrollment across forests, Online Responder, Network Device Enrollment. In order to install an Enterprise CA, you must be a member of either Enterprise Admins or Domain Admins in the forest root domain
(either directly or through a group nesting).
If issue still persists, there is probably a problem with getting correct credentials of your account. There are many thing that can cause it (network blockage, domain settings, server configuration, and other issues). In all cases I got, this troubleshooting helped perfectly: First of all, carefully check all above requirements.
Secondly, install all available patches and Service Packs with Windows Update before trying to install Enterprise CA.
Check network settings on the CA Server. If there is no DNS setting, Certificate Authority Server cannot resolve and find domain.
Sufficient privileges for writing the Enterprise CA configuration information in AD configuration partition are required. Determine if you are a member of the Enterprise Admins or Domain Admins in the forest root domain. Think about the account you are currently trying to install ADCS with. In fact, you may be sure, that your account is in Enterprise Admins group, but check this how CA Server "sees" your account membership by typing whoami /groups.
You also need to be a member of local Administrators group. If you are not, you wouldn't be able to run Server Manager, but still needs to be checked.
View C:\windows\certocm.log file. There you can find helpful details on problems with group membership. For example status of ENUM_ENTERPRISE_UNAVAIL_REASON_NO_INSTALL_RIGHTS indicates that needed memberships are not correct.
Don't forget to check event viewer on CA Server side and look for red lines.
Verify that network devices or softwareamp;hardware firewalls are not blocking access from/to server and Domain Controllers. If so, Certificate Authority Server may not be communicating correctly with the domain. To check that, simply run nltest
Check also whether Server CA is connected to a writable Domain Controller.
Enterprise Admins groups is the most powerful group and has ADCS required full control permissions, but who knows – maybe someone changed default permissions? Run adsiedit.msc on Domain Controller, connect to default context and first of all check if CN=Public Key Service,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=Your,DC=Domain,DC=Com container does
exist. If so, check permissions for all subcontainers under Public Key Service if Enterprise Admins group has full control permissions. The main subcontainers to verify are Certificate Templates, OID, KRA containers.
If no above tips help, disjoin the server from domain and join again. Ultimately reinstall operation system on CA Server.
Question No: 17 – (Topic 1)
Your company has an Active Directory forest. The company has branch offices in three locations. Each location has an organizational unit.
You need to ensure that the branch office administrators are able to create and apply GPOs only to their respective organizational units.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)
Run the Delegation of Control wizard and delegate the right to link GPOs for their branch organizational units to the branch office administrators.
Add the user accounts of the branch office administrators to the Group Policy Creator Owners Group.
Modify the Managed By tab in each organizational unit to add the branch office administrators to their respective organizational units.
Run the Delegation of Control wizard and delegate the right to link GPOs for the domain to the branch office administrators.
Answer: A,B Explanation:
Answer: Run the Delegation of Control wizard and delegate the right to link GPOs for their branch organizational units to the branch office administrators.
Add the user accounts of the branch office administrators to the Group Policy Creator Owners Group.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732524.aspx Delegate Control of an Organizational Unit
To delegate control of an organizational unit
To open Active Directory Users and Computers, click Start , click Control Panel , double- click Administrative
Tools and then double-click Active Directory Users and Computers .
In the console tree, right-click the organizational unit (OU) for which you want to delegate control.
Active Directory Users and Computers\ domain node \ organizational unit
Click Delegate Control to start the Delegation of Control Wizard, and then follow the instructions in the wizard.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781991(v=ws.10).aspx Delegating Administration of Group Policy
Your Group Policy design will probably call for delegating certain Group Policy administrative tasks.
Determining to what degree to centralize or distribute administrative control of Group Policy is one of the most important factors to consider when assessing the needs of your organization. In organizations that use a centralized administration model, an IT group provides services, makes decisions, and sets standards for the entire company. In organizations that use a distributed administration model, each business unit manages its own IT group.
You can delegate the following Group Policy tasks: Creating GPOs
Managing individual GPOs (for example, granting Edit or Read access to a GPO) etc.
Delegating Creation of GPOs
The ability to create GPOs in a domain is a permission that is managed on a per-domain basis. By default, only
Domain Administrators, Enterprise Administrators, Group Policy Creator Owners, and SYSTEM can create new Group Policy objects. If the domain administrator wants a non- administrator or non-administrative group to be able to create GPOs, that user or group can be added to the Group Policy Creator Owners security group. Alternatively, you can use the Delegation tab on the Group Policy Objects container in GPMC to delegate creation of GPOs. When a non-administrator who is a member of the Group Policy Creator Owners group creates a GPO, that user becomes the creator owner of the GPO and can edit the GPO and modify permissions on the GPO. However, members of the Group Policy Creator Owners group cannot link GPOs to containers unless they have been separately delegated the right to do so on a particular site, domain, or OU.
Being a member of the Group Policy Creator Owners group gives the non-administrator full control of only those GPOs that the user creates. Group Policy Creator Owner members do not have permissions for GPOs that they do not create.
Note: When an administrator creates a GPO, the Domain Administrators group becomes the Creator Owner of the Group Policy object. By default, Domain Administrators can edit all GPOs in the domain.
The right to link GPOs is delegated separately from the right to create GPOs and the right to edit GPOs. Be sure to delegate both rights to those groups you want to be able to create and link GPOs. By default, non- Domain Admins cannot manage links, and this prevents them from being able to use GPMC to create and link a GPO. However, non-Domain Admins can create an unlinked GPO if they are members of the Group Policy Creator Owners group. After a non-Domain Admin creates an unlinked GPO, the Domain Admin or someone else who has been delegated permissions to link GPOs an a container can link the GPO as appropriate.
Creation of GPOs can be delegated to any group or user. There are two methods of
granting a group or user this permission:
Add the group or user to the Group Policy Creator Owners group. This was the only method available prior to GPMC.
Explicitly grant the group or user permission to create GPOs. This method is newly available with GPMC.
You can manage this permission by using the Delegation tab on the Group Policy objects container for a given domain in GPMC. This tab shows the groups that have permission to create GPOs in the domain, including the Group Policy Creator Owners group. From this tab, you can modify the membership of existing groups that have this permission, or add new groups.
Because the Group Policy Creator Owners group is a domain global group, it cannot contain members from outside the domain. Being able to grant users permissions to create GPOs without using Group Policy Creator Owners facilitates delegating GPO creation to users outside the domain. Without GPMC, this task cannot be delegated to members outside the domain.
If you require that users outside the domain have the ability to create GPOs, create a new domain local group in the domain (for example, quot;GPCO – Externalquot;), grant that group GPO creation permissions in the domain, and then add domain global groups from external domains to that group. For users and groups in the domain, you should continue to use the Group Policy Creator Owners group to grant GPO-creation permissions.
Adding a user to the membership of Group Policy Creator Owners and granting the user GPO-creation permissions directly using the new method available in GPMC are identical in terms of permissions.
Question No: 18 – (Topic 1)
Your network consists of an Active Directory forest that contains one domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2008 R2 and are configured as DNS servers. You have two Active Directory-integrated zones: contoso.com and nwtraders.com.
You need to ensure a user is able to modify records in the contoso.com zone. You must prevent the user from modifying the SOA record in the nwtraders.com zone.
What should you do?
From the Active Directory Users and Computers console, run the Delegation of Control Wizard.
From the Active Directory Users and Computers console, modify the permissions of the Domain Controllers organizational unit (OU).
From the DNS Manager console, modify the permissions of the contoso.com zone.
From the DNS Manager console, modify the permissions of the nwtraders.com zone.
Answer: C Explanation:
Answer: From the DNS Manager console, modify the permissions of the contoso.com zone.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753213.aspx Modify Security for a Directory-Integrated Zone
You can manage the discretionary access control list (DACL) on the DNS zones that are stored in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You can use the DACL to control the permissions for the Active Directory users and groups that may control the DNS zones.
Membership in DnsAdmins or Domain Admins in AD DS, or the equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure.
To modify security for a directory-integrated zone:
Open DNS Manager.
In the console tree, click the applicable zone. Where?
DNS/applicable DNS server/Forward Lookup Zones (or Reverse Lookup Zones)/applicable zone
On the Action menu, click Properties.
On the General tab, verify that the zone type is Active Directory-integrated.
On the Security tab, modify the list of member users or groups that are allowed to securely update the applicable zone and reset their permissions as needed.
Further information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163971 The Structure of a DNS SOA Record
The first resource record in any Domain Name System (DNS) Zone file should be a Start of Authority (SOA) resource record. The SOA resource record indicates that this DNS name server is the best source of information for the data within this DNS domain.
The SOA resource record contains the following information: Source host – The host where the file was created.
Contact e-mail – The e-mail address of the person responsible for administering the domain#39;s zone file. Note that a quot;.quot; is used instead of an quot;@quot; in the e-mail name.
Serial number – The revision number of this zone file. Increment this number each time the
zone file is changed. It is important to increment this value each time a change is made, so that the changes will be distributed to any secondary DNS servers.
Refresh Time – The time, in seconds, a secondary DNS server waits before querying the primary DNS server#39;s SOA record to check for changes. When the refresh time expires, the secondary DNS server requests a copy of the current SOA record from the primary. The primary DNS server complies with this request. The secondary DNS server compares the serial number of the primary DNS server#39;s current SOA record and the serial number in it#39;s own SOA record. If they are different, the secondary DNS server will request a zone transfer from the primary DNS server. The default value is 3,600.
Retry time – The time, in seconds, a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer. Normally, the retry time is less than the refresh time. The default value is 600. Expire time – The time, in seconds, that a secondary server will keep trying to complete a zone transfer. If this time expires prior to a successful zone transfer, the secondary server will expire its zone file. This means the secondary will stop answering queries, as it considers its data too old to be reliable. The default value is 86,400.
Minimum TTL – The minimum time-to-live value applies to all resource records in the zone file. This value is supplied in query responses to inform other servers how long they should keep the data in cache. The default value is 3,600.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787600(v=ws.10).aspx Modify the start of authority (SOA) record for a zone
Notes: To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.
Question No: 19 – (Topic 1)
Your company has an Active Directory domain. The main office has a DNS server named DNS1 that is configured with Active Directory-integrated DNS. The branch office has a DNS server named DNS2 that contains a secondary copy of the zone from DNS1. The two offices are connected with an unreliable WAN link.
You add a new server to the main office.
Five minutes after adding the server, a user from the branch office reports that he is unable to connect to the new server.
You need to ensure that the user is able to connect to the new server. What should you do?
Clear the cache on DNS2.
Reload the zone on DNS1.
Refresh the zone on DNS2.
Export the zone from DNS1 and import the zone to DNS2.
Answer: C Explanation:
Old answer: Refresh the zone on DNS2.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794900(v=ws.10).aspx Adjust the Refresh Interval for a Zone
You can use this procedure to adjust the refresh interval for a Domain Name System (DNS) zone. The refresh interval determines how often other DNS servers that load and host the zone must attempt to renew the zone.
By default, the refresh interval for each zone is set to 15 minutes. http://blog.ijun.org/2008/11/difference-between-dnscmd-clearcache.htmldifference between dnscmd /clearcache and ipconfig /flushdns
Q: Do quot;dnscmd /clearcachequot; and quot;ipconfig /flushdnsquot; the exact same thing, on a windows 2003 server? What is the difference, if any?
A: Ipconfig /flushdns will flush the local computer cache. And dnscmd /clearcache will clear the dns server cache.
Meaning that with the first you will clear the quot;localquot; cache of the server you work on. (Even if it is the dns server. It will NOT clear the dns server cache.) While with dnscmd you will clear the dns server cache.
Question No: 20 – (Topic 1)
Your network contains an Active Directory forest. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2008 R2 and are configured as DNS servers.
You have an Active Directory-integrated zone for contoso.com.
You have a Unix-based DNS server.
You need to configure your Windows Server 2008 R2 environment to allow zone transfers of the contoso.com zone to the Unix-based DNS server.
What should you do in the DNS Manager console?
Enable BIND secondaries
Create a stub zone
Disable recursion
Create a secondary zone
Answer: A Explanation:
http://skibbz.com/understanding-of-advance-properties-settings-in-window-server-2003- and-2008-dns-serverbind-secondaries/
Understanding Of Advance Properties Settings In Window Server 2003 And 2008 DNS Server (BIND Secondaries)
BIND Secondaries controls the zone transfer between different vendor DNS server. It help verifies the type of format used zone transfer, whether it is fast or slow transfer (zone transfer). The full mean of BIND is Berkeley Internet Name domain (BIND). BIND is a based on UNIX operating system.
Two window servers do not required BIND. BIND is only required when transfer dns zone between two different dns server vendors (UNIX and Microsoft Window). If you are using only Window server for dns and zone transfer you will have to disable this option in the window dns server. However if you want the server to perform a slow zone transfer and uncompressed data transfer then you will have to enable BIND in the dns server.
To reiterate, BIND only provide slow dns zone transfer and data compression mechanism for DNS server.
BIND is understood to have been introduced in window server to support UNIX. System admin will normally disable this option if they want the data in their dns zone transfer to between primary and secondary dns server to be transfer faster in order to improve dns queries efficiency within their network environment
Bind is used in a DNS window server, when the needs to configured zone transfer between window server and UNIX server or operative system.
Bind is enabled when a window server is configured as a primary dns server and a UNIX computer is configured as a secondary dns server for zone transfer.
BIND Secondaries need to be configured to mitigate, the problem of interoperability between the two server operating system since they are from different vendors.
Note that old version of the BIND was noted to be very slow and uses an uncompressed zone transfer format.
However, BIND in window server 2008 and later has improved this problem. This is because it was noted that
BIND in window server 2008 and later uses faster, compressed format during zone transfer between primary and secondary DNS server configured in for different server operating system (UNIX and Window server).
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15 January 2013George Marsh
About: part 3 of a multi-part article looking at the development of offshore wind turbines as companies look to different approaches to improve reliability.
Part 1 - Outages offshore are more critical than those onshore due to problems of access at sea, limited weather windows during which maintenance work can be carried out, and the sheer size of offshore machines...read more.
Part 2 - the drive for fewer components..read more.
Part count reduction is not always the best strategy because there are various trade-offs to consider. For instance, the higher reliability expected of direct drive must be traded off against increased generator diameter and weight, along with greater nacelle size and windage. Then again, the higher efficiency of PMGs has to be balanced against their need for full power converters.
An alternative strategy for augmenting reliability, in some ways diametrically opposed to part count reduction, is redundancy – meaning the duplication of critical systems or components so that single failures can be tolerated. This may be highly effective, especially when allied with remote monitoring so that any failure is registered. However, duplication inevitably adds to part count so, for this strategy to pay off, its benefit to reliability (strictly speaking availability since failures are tolerated rather than eliminated) must outweigh the adverse effects of having more components. Since the redundant half of any duplicated system is generally on light 'standby' duty most of the time and will be less subject to wear, this can indeed be so, but the issue must be decided at the initial design stage.
Finnish company WinWind builds high reliability into its 3 MW rated WinWinD 3 turbine by having two 1.5 MW converters running independently in parallel, which means that if one converter fails, the turbine will still be operational with the remaining unit. The converters' cooling systems and auxiliaries are also independent and redundant.
A 'halfway house' between geared and gearless solutions, avoiding the extreme characteristics of both, is the hybrid system. A single stage of gearing (sometimes two) is combined with a generator having an intermediate number of poles with a rotor of commensurate diameter. As a result, the generator and gearbox are of approximately the same size, a dimensionally more balanced arrangement than the full no-gearbox solution. These elements can be housed in relatively compact nacelles. The simplified gearbox has fewer parts and should therefore be more reliable than the standard three-stage model. Should the need for replacement nevertheless arise, it is also lighter and more compact, and therefore easier to manage.
An early realisation of the hybrid concept was the Multibrid system. Multibrid, notable as a direct drive pioneer, held that low generator rotational speed and a reduced number of rotating parts are key to reliable and economical operation offshore. Integration of the rotor bearing, gear system and generator within the same housing led to a compact installation as well as short load paths. The company also used redundancy for filters and other critical components, plus IP54 environmental protection in its synchronous PMG-based turbine designs. Multibrid, now part of the French Areva Group, incorporated the technology in its M5000 5 MW offshore machine.
Another type of hybrid drive is the multiple generator system, as exemplified in Clipper Wind's 2.5 MW Liberty design. In this system, a single-stage gearbox drives four PMGs, thereby spreading the loading on the main drive gear and achieving a drivetrain that has considerable failure tolerance thanks to its four generators.
Despite the inherent advantages of direct drive and hybrid systems, it seems that the conventional turbine format will continue to dominate for some time to come, both on- and offshore.
Siemens' wind energy competitor Vestas Wind Systems is cognisant of this and, more conservatively, has adopted conventional drive arrangements for its V165 6 MW offshore turbine now being developed. Vestas believes that required levels of offshore reliability can be achieved through careful detailed design of existing drive components, including gearboxes. Discussing the background to the new turbine, Finn Strøm Madsen, until recently President of Vestas Technology R&D, explains:
"We actually kept all options open from the start, running two separate parallel R&D development tracks, one focusing on direct drive and the other on a geared solution. It became clear that if we wanted to meet customer expectations about lowest cost of energy and high business case certainty, we needed an optimum combination of innovation and proven technology. So we chose to go for a medium-speed drivetrain solution. Offshore wind customers do not want new and untested solutions. They want reliability and certainty, and that is what the V164-7.0 MW gives them."
A number of analysts agree with this point of view. Birger Madsen, Director of wind industry forecaster BTM Consult ApS, has said of direct drive:
"The technology is relatively unknown and there is the risk that something will surprise you. We have limited experience so far with direct drive machines offshore. While the technology eliminates gears that are a major cause of outages in current turbines, the novelty may be its main drawback."
Nevertheless, many in the industry expect that, as experience offshore grows, the direct drive or hybrid approach will prove its economic worth. However, there are other technology contenders too.
One of these provides gearing without gears. Instead of being a number of fixed ratios, gearing can be varied continuously in a smooth progression if fluidic systems are adopted. DeWind, the US-based subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, has picked up on this having adopted the Voith variable speed transmission system, well established in marine and industrial applications.
A big advantage of DeWind's WindDrive system, which combines a fluidic torque converter with a planetary gear system, is that it does not need power conversion electronics. This is because the 'gearbox' output shaft can be set to any speed required and can therefore be used with a synchronous generator such that no electrical adjustment is necessary. Another plus for the fluidic system is that the fluid effectively decouples the input and output shafts from each other, thereby preventing transmission of vibration and torque spikes to the generator.
An intriguing and radical possibility for offshore wind is that present horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT) might not be the best answer and that ultimately, the vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) might prevail. A leading proponent of VAWT technology is Theo Bird, who started the UK company Wind Power Ltd to revisit the concept. Bird argues that having a rotor that rotates parallel with the ground/sea surface avoids the reversal of gravitational load that occurs at every revolution of a conventional turbine rotor, creating fatigue in blades, bearings, shafts etc. VAWTs, he says, would therefore be more reliable and require less maintenance.
Further benefit should result from the ability of a Wind Power Aerogenerator to accommodate wind from any direction without the need for a yawing mechanism. Bird says that US wind researchers who worked on original vertical axis projects have always regarded the technology as great to work with at sea because it can be big, tough and easily managed.
Recently the UK Government-backed Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) investigated a conceptual VAWT as part of a drive to bring down the cost of offshore wind power from about double that of onshore wind currently, to parity by 2020. The universities of Sheffield, Cranfield and Strathclyde also took part, together with research organisation QinetiQ and others.
The proposed Nova (Novel Offshore Vertical Axis) machine features an innovative 100 m high V-shaped rotor rotating around a vertical axis located at low level along with all rotating machinery. The ETI's Grant Bourhill says a 5-10 MW Nova would be more reliable and require less maintenance than an equivalent modern turbine and would also be cheaper to build because it can be assembled from the base of the machine rather than at the top of a tower. There are hopes that a Nova demonstrator can be installed offshore by 2015 so that its economic and technical characteristics can be explored.
The question now is: Which of these technologies will dominate, if any?
About George Marsh: Engineering roles in high-vacuum physics, electronics, flight testing and radar led George Marsh, via technology PR, to technology journalism. He is a regular contributor to Renewable Energy Focus.
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There is nothing quite like starting a brand new story. I love all the aspects of writing – plotting, wording, editing, publishing. I complain about some of it. There are parts I like more than others. One of my favorites is plotting.
I talk about plotting on my own blog on a semi-regular basis. From cool tools to use, to the things I do for my stories. I'm not here to chat plotting today, but actually writing a new story.
I recently wrapped my second book in the Bona Fide series (the first book is coming out on March 6th), but I once again digress.
New stories (my top five things about them):
- Fresh characters – these are new people, with new flaws, wounds, misconceptions, traits, and histories. I love digging into their backgrounds and discovering the things that make them tick.
- Discovering the world – there's something special about a new book's world. Whether revisiting a previous setting from a series story or visiting a new one – if it's a different pair of eyes certain things will stick out more than others.
- The endorphin rush – the slow burn, the first kiss, the falling in love, the simmering attraction. It hits all my high notes.
- The pet name – every book I write the hero has a pet name for his heroine. Most of the time I don't know what this is in advance. It's a discovery as I write.
- The chapter hooks – it's a special art to write a good chapter hook. I have no problem hunting for them and my brain is pretty fast at picking up on how a chapter or scene should end. Let's hope it translates to the reader in the long term.
For my writers – what are your favorite parts of starting a new story?
For the readers – what do you like about reading a new story? Is it tropes? Is it the possibilities? A favorite setting?
Bona Fide Beauty ~ Coming 3.6.18 ~ Book 1 in the Bona Fide Series
She's going to lose her house.
Kathleen Baum has four months to complete the city's required code changes to her grandma's home. Otherwise, she loses it. Strapped for cash, Kat's only way to get the funds is to bargain with her devil cousin. She agrees to an unwanted makeover, but she's not good at taking direction, pretend or not.
He's going to lose his business.
Devid Esposito has worked all his life to build a successful image consulting company, but if he doesn't start bringing in new clients the business will be bankrupt in three months. The board is ready to oust him when his partner, Kat's cousin, enters with the opportunity to get his mojo back; all he needs to do is help Kat, with a makeover. Unfortunately, Dev doesn't take on female clients anymore since the last one broke his heart and used his tips against him.
When they find out they have a common enemy, his heart-breaking client is her code-breaking-whistleblower, and the easiest way to bring the foe down is to accept the other's help. Losing their hearts to each other was the one thing they didn't plan for.
About Landra Graf
Landra Graf consumes at least one book a day and has always been a sucker for stories where true love conquers all. She believes in the power of the written word, and the joy such words can bring. In between spending time with her family and having book adventures, she writes romance with the goal of giving everyone, fictional or not, their own happily ever after.


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Manny Pacquiao vs. Marquez 4: Fight Time, Date, Live Stream, TV Info and MoreDecember 6, 2012
In what can only be described as the biggest grudge match in boxing history, Manny Pacquiao looks to prove that he is still the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world when he takes on Juan Manuel Marquez.
Pacquiao's career outside of the boxing ring seems to have superseded his fighting. He has so many extracurricular activities (politician, entrepreneur, singer, etc.) that you have to wonder how much he has left in the tank.
Marquez has been waiting for this fight ever since Nov. 2011, when the judges gave Pacquiao the decision in their third matchup. Marquez has done great things in his career, but the one stain on his resume is an 0-2-1 career mark against Pacquiao.
Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV
When: Saturday, Dec. 8 at 9:00 p.m. ET
Watch: Pay-Per-View ($59.95 for standard definition; $69.95 for high definition)
Live Stream: TopRank.com
|Welterweight Bout: Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez
|Super Featherweight Bout: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Michael Farenas
|Lightweight Bout: Miguel Vazquez vs. Mercito Gesta
|Featherweight Bout: Javier Fortuna vs. Patrick Hyland
Tale of the Tape
|54-4-2 (38 KOs)
|54-6-1 (39 KOs)
Courtesy of Boxrec.com
Pacquiao's Keys to Victory
Use Speed and Power Combination; Let's Play Some Defense
For all the idle chatter about Pacquiao starting to slip, he has proven time and again that he is still the fastest striker in boxing. He put on a clinic in that controversial loss to Timothy Bradley, and did outstrike Marquez 176-138 in total punches and 117-100 in power strikes in their last fight.
Pacquiao has a decided advantage against Marquez in the speed department, which also allows him to play up his power. He has to set the pace in this fight and keep Marquez off balance heading into the later rounds to have a shot to end it before the judges decide.
On the flip side, Pacquiao needs to start playing some defense. Marquez's greatest asset is his ability to counter-punch, which is what gave Pacquiao problems in their last fight. The only real damage that Marquez did was as a result of counter-punching, because Pacquiao never kept his hands up to defend himself.
If Pacquiao wants to avoid any controversy this time around, all he has to do is keep his hands up when Marquez attacks. Doing that will prevent Marquez from doing any significant damage.
Marquez's Keys to Victory
Let Pacquiao Set Up Offense; Don't Get In A Slugfest
Marquez is one of the most unique boxers in the world. He has gotten better with age because he understands that the best offense comes from exploiting your opponent's aggressiveness.
Pacquiao is as aggressive as any fighter in boxing. He is going to come out swinging, looking to end the fight as soon as possible. That gives Marquez a huge opening to exploit, by attacking Pacquiao when his guard is down.
If Marquez can use Pacquiao's own offensive strategy against him, it is going to be a very long night for Pacquiao.
That being said, it is important Marquez doesn't get into a back-and-forth punching match. He can counter-punch with anyone in the world, but he is not capable of standing toe-to-toe with an elite fighter and matching him punch for punch.
Marquez has to pick and choose when and where he is going to attack, and when he does, he has to make his strikes count.
What They Are Saying
Everyone knows that Pacquiao and Marquez have a very personal rivalry. Each fighter believes he should be 3-0 against the other.
Marquez is desperately seeking vengeance after strongly feeling he was robbed in the third fight. At the press conference (via Dan Rafael of ESPN) earlier this week, Marquez was short and to the point about what he expects from this fourth match.
Marquez: 'It will be another war.' #PacMarquez #boxing— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) December 5, 2012
Never one to boast about himself, Manny Pacquiao is playing the perfect babyface heading into this fight. In an interview with Fox Sports, Pac-Man said that he wants to fight his fight this time around.
I have put everything into this training camp. I know I haven't fought perfect fights against Márquez in the past and my incentive in this one is to fight the fight I should fight this time. If I do that I will not only win again but put away all doubts in the minds of the fans and Márquez on who is the better fighter.
It is refreshing to see Pacquiao humbled in a different way. He is often humble when speaking, but he seems to be more so this time around. He hears the whispers and wants to prove fans and analysts wrong.
Manny Pacquiao is a man on a mission right now. He has more incentive now than ever before to destroy anything and everything in front of him. Marquez doesn't have the power to knock out Pacquiao, though I am not sure Pacquiao can crack Marquez's chin.
It will be another close fight, but this time there will be no controversy.
Pacquiao wins via unanimous decision


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It takes a certain amount of cheek to permanently affix one's own effigy on a public thoroughfare; French street artist Gregos' has it. Numerous of his molded 3-D self-portraits have appeared in urban Parisian settings since 2006. All with different expressions. This one is on the corner of rue de Rivoli and rue Saint Roche.
du culot: cheek, nerve
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I'd heard that Italy has fabulous hot springs. As well as delicious food, and wonderfully hospitable people. On my visit to Italy this month, I discovered for myself – it's all true. And then some.
In the middle of my week teaching Hawaiian Lomi Lomi in Verona, my hosts announced they were taking me to the "Thermale" – thermal hot springs. We arrived at 8.00 pm, and during the summer months it's daylight until 10pm so we had some time to appreciate the scenery walking into Parco Termale del Garda. The park and lakes are lit and open until 1am in summer.
The entrance is a long walk down a stony lane into a huge green park, with manicured lawns, bordered by cypress pines. I was expecting a small water park – but this was a masterpiece of design on a large scale. There is a small lake and large lake (5,000m2) for swimming, with white deck chairs and tidy picnic tables appropriately placed. There is a magnificent glass-domed dining hall, and outdoor change rooms opening onto the large lake with a stunning crystal chandelier that I could see doubling as a wedding reception area. In actual fact, these wood and glass gazebos are heated in winter so that you can enter the lake without exposing your body to freezing temperatures.
Footpaths meander through wooded forests, with cypress, yew, ancient sequoia and beech trees. In the summer you can spend all day here, with a picnic lunch, wine, friends, family. Socializing in fine European style. I'm told these natural hot springs are absolutely amazing in winter, when it's below zero outside and the water retains it's heat. There are even accommodation villas in the park dating back to 14th century. Read the history here.
I went with 6 of my students, and as soon as we got changed, stepping into the hot springs after three days of massage was delightful. The water temperature hovers around 33 degrees C, and there are two hot tubs within the main pool, which you step up into using wooden stairs. One is 37 and the other is 39 degrees. Complete bliss. There are strong jets within these hot tubs, I climbed in and directed them onto my lower back and was in heaven. A maximum of ten minutes is suggested, then back to the main pool. All along the sides there are water fountains, like this one, which provides a strong, warm hydromassage on your neck and head.
But the best was yet to come.
As we entered the water, the six people I was with broke into pairs and started giving each other Watsu (Water Shiatsu) in the pool.
Each recipient was held languidly in the arms of their partners, being moved around in slow circles. Their legs beneath the water were being lifted and stretched, passive dancing in the warm haven. Having never seen this before, it was quite beautiful to witness. Especially in triplicate.
Later I realized this wasn't "normal" for people to do in the hot springs. These were all experienced therapists, and of course, it was normal for them.
Annalisa offered for me to experience her Watsu. She held me in her arms, my right arm draped around her shoulders, and lifted and danced me slowly in wide aqua circles. My ears were below the water. All I could hear were the tiny pebbles on the floor of the lake as she walked upon them, muted children's laughter in a faraway background, and the roar of water fountains. The sky was beginning to darken and my body became one with the elements as she spun me around. Occasionally I would hear a sound of contentment escape from my throat, utterly unexpected. The entire experience was divine. This was my first Watsu.
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What Makes a Good Mom?
Do you have a running reel in your mom brain? You know what I mean. Words that you say to yourself, questions you are constantly posing, reprimands with which you punish yourself? Maybe it's just me. Maybe I should be called Sybil. Who knows?
My running reel is lengthy and complicated and persistent, and includes a pesky question that really has become my mantra for motherhood. "What would a GOOD mom do?" I am not sure about other moms, but quite often I'd come up blank on that question. Typically when coming up short with an answer, I'd ask anyone who would listen to the situation what THEY would do if they were experiencing something that I was with my teen boys. I was perpetually gathering knowledge with that constant question dogging me; "What would a good mom do?"
But lately I have been pushing against that question. I guess you could say I was questioning the question. I am starting to believe (after extensive research on my part…after all I have been mothering those boys for 17 years) that it may not be the correct question to ask when trying to parent or solve those adolescent problems and dilemmas that often show up. As I said previously, if I came up blank when trying to solve or do the "right" thing for my boys, I would go out into the world and ask other mothers. But I wouldn't just do that, I'd read every book, article, and website on the subject, and I would try it all—like cutting open Grandma's feather pillow in a windstorm…I'd fling out my good intentions and hope, pray, that one of those feathers would land in the right spot.
And that is just it…when searching for what a "good mom" would do I would get as many answers as there are feathers in that pillow. Could all the moms, books, articles, websites, be right? Could they all be wrong? When trying to mother under the guise of "What a good mom would do," most of the time I was more confused than when I started searching for answers and strategies. And I am sure that to those two boys of mine I seemed schizophrenic, non committal, flighty. I mean if one thing didn't work within what seemed to be a goodly amount of time, then those rules went out the window only to be replaced with something else. And if that didn't completely work…which often times it wouldn't…some new technique would come to take its place. When those boys are thirty, I hope against all hope that they'll be able to look back at this trial and error type of parenting with a fondness and understanding that I was trying. REALLY. I was trying.
Nowadays, I am still trying-just in a different way. Recently, when speaking to someone (who happens to have more wisdom in her pinky nail than any Oxford scholar) about the dilemma of seemingly not having a "mom compass," she pointed out something that was so logical…but to me, Earth shattering as well. She said, "When trying to parent from the perspective of 'What would a good mother do,' you are thinking about yourself. Instead," she gently added, "if you mother from the perspective of 'What does my child need at this moment?' it might make your job easier."
"What does my child need at this moment?" Now THERE'S a question that could help a mom with no compass. After all, dear Readers, each situation, each child, each moment is different. Something that little Johnny responds to next door, might not work with my Gannan because it might not be what he needs. By asking myself what it is that I think he needs might just bring about the results that we moms are constantly striving for.
As you all know by now, my youngest son, the 14 year old, no longer lives with me, moving in with his father back in October. I have spent the better part of the year being pushed, shoved, rolled over by that indefatigable question, "What would a good mom do? What would a good mom do? What would a good mom do?" Under that phrase's spell I pushed counseling; I sent inspirational phrases and songs to his Facebook mailbox. I fought and bickered and insisted with his father. I pleaded with his school, his teachers, his guidance counselor. My mind never rested. My eyes drank in every word of every book about teen rebellion and kids that were out of control. I cried tears that would fill up 4 oceans. I lost months and months worth of sleep trying to quiet the tireless "What would a good mom do" question. But not one of those windblown feathers ever landed where I desperately needed it to land.
But now…now…a new question. "What does Gannan need?" A shift in my thinking like this took some practice. At first the answers were still about me. "I think he needs counseling. I think he needs a no tolerance policy. I think…I think…I think…Well, blah blah blah." The question is "What does HE need?" And while it took some time, I am satisfied that I just may have come up with an answer that might possibly be okay…for now. After all, as any parent knows, what their children need changes as fast those feathers fly in a windstorm. For the sake of his privacy I think I will not include my decisions in this column. But I want you to know that parenting in this way of studying the child and making decisions based on what they need at the moment feels empowering. Refuting the "my kid should be, or my son ought to…and the all encompassing-but if he would just do it my way…" and instead focusing on providing solutions, opportunities and support for what a son or daughter needs rids us of that constant search for the perfect one-size-fits-all method (as if one exists). Thinking about what our children need at every bend in the road called adolescence is exactly what a GOOD mom should do.
Logan has lived in Glens Falls, NY all her life. By day, she is an educator with 20 years experience, a mom to Aidan and Gannan, her two teenage boys, a new mommy to a beautiful daughter, Ila, and wife to the love of her life, Jeffrey. By night, weekends and any spare time she can find, Logan writes. She loves memoir and also adores writing essays about the challenges of parenthood. This year she started a parenting blog called A Muddled Mother, an honest place where mothers aren't afraid to speak of the complications and difficulties that we all inevitably experience. Logan has been published in various children's and parenting magazines including Today's Motherhood, Eye on Education, Faces, and Appleseed.


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On Sunday, Circle of Fountains and our Novices met for the next installation of their class and our full moon ritual!
The evening started with the class, where Amy and Andrea talked about energy work versus magic.
Once their class was complete, they returned upstairs for ritual.
This ritual I led. I've been placing an emphasis on the astrological sign that the full moon is in, so I planned out a full moon in Leo. Leo is all about drama and theatrics, so I placed an emphasis on rhyming in the ritual.
I started by handing out six lines of a rhyming circle opening to individual members of the circle in order. I asked them to read the line as I passed behind them, cutting the circle with my athame.
I call upon the moon alone,
Maiden, Mother, Warrior, Crone
Remove this circle from time and space
With your energy fill this place.
This house, this area, this circle, this room,
It now resides within the moon.
Some of the lines I handed to specific members. The second line is particularly Wiccan-influenced, so I ensured one of our two Wiccans had that line. They were otherwise handed out to whoever wanted one.
We then called on the quarters, starting in the south because Leo is a fire sign.
One tip for making quarter calling easier is to pin or tape the quarter calls by the wall of the element you're calling.
This is something I did regularly with my last circle but seemed to have lost track of with this circle. I'm bringing it back for the esbats.
I then left space for others to call upon any deities or spirits they'd like.
Once that was completed, we moved on to spell work!
I asked each of our ritual attendants to write down what they think courage and confidence look like. It could be a description or a drawing - whatever they were comfortable with.
For some examples, one of our novices drew this adorable picture of a lion. I wrote "Holding your high in the face of adversity."
One of our circle members said she was embarrassed to read hers aloud, because she wrote down that I exemplified courage and Kolika confidence. Abby, that's probably the biggest compliment anyone's ever given me.
Once they read their paper aloud, I asked them to burn it and drop it in the cauldron.
This gave us ashes charged with courage, confidence and fire for the next step of the spell.
In each black bowl to either side of the cauldron, I placed a charged rose quartz for self-love. I then filled it half-full with a carrier oil (my choice was olive oil, but grape seed or avocado).
I dropped in a little rose and patchouli essential oils into each bowl. Rose essential oil is great for love and beauty, and patchouli for sexuality and physical energy.
I then added half the ashes to one bowl and half to the other, and stirred them to create a charging oil for self-love, courage and confidence. The only reason I created two bowls was to make it easier on everyone trying to reach it.
Prior to the ritual, I asked my circlemates to bring makeup, perfume or jewelry that made them feel more confident when they wore it. Eyeliner in particular would be great for this glamour because I think lions look like they're wearing amazing eyeliner, but anything would do. I asked each person to take a little of the oil and charge an object of their choosing while we changed a short rhyming lyric:
Full Moon in Leo, I call upon thee
To lend me courage and bravery,
Fill this item with strength and light,
A newfound confidence I ignite.
My spirit is unbreakable,
My resolution is untakeable.
With courage of a lion, I become,
There's nothing I cannot overcome.
(A slightly altered version of this chant.)
With that, everyone had completed a simple glamour spell for courage and confidence!
We released our spirits and deities...
... released our quarters...
... And released the circle! Simple, sweet and to the point.
I hope you've enjoyed this simple full moon in Leo ritual! Until next time!


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WASHINGTON — Fewer young drivers died in accidents in 2003 than the year before, but the total still was 429 more than a decade earlier, the government reported.
The rise in fatalities from 1993 to 2003 among drivers aged 15 to 20 is likely related to an increase in miles traveled. More motorists are dying but people on average are covering more ground, which explains why the nation's death rate per vehicle miles traveled has fallen steadily over the decade.
Some 3,657 young drivers died in 2003, compared with 3,827 the previous year — a decline of 170, or 4.4 percent, according to data being released Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The figure for 1993 was 3,228 deaths, or 13 percent less than last year.
From 2002 to 2003, the number of people killed in accidents involving young drivers — drivers and their passengers, people in other vehicles, pedestrians — fell from 9,251 to 8,666 (585, or 6.3 percent).
Barbara Harsha, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association, said the decline in the number of young drivers killed last year may be due to the growing attention paid to real-world skills in driver education classes.
Seat belts
More people also wore seat belts last year, and that may have saved many young drivers. The government said that 72 percent of people aged 16 to 24 buckled up last year, compared with 65 percent in 2002.
The data also shows a steady decline in alcohol involvement in crashes among young people. Alcohol was a factor in 25 percent of the fatal crashes involving young drivers last year. In 1993, one in three such accidents was alcohol-related.
"People are starting to ask why. There was a time we expected we would lose some members of our high school class because of a car crash, but people are understanding that it doesn't have to be that way," said NHTSA's chief, Dr. Jeffrey Runge.
Not all measures showed improvement. The number of young drivers killed as a percentage of total drivers who died held steady at around 14 percent over the decade.
Night driving
Runge said parents should limit nighttime driving. Studies also show that limiting the number of passengers in young drivers' cars also cuts down on accidents, Runge said.
The agency found that the percentage of young, female drivers involved in fatal crashes has grown faster than the rates for males since 1993. Women represented 28 percent of the young drivers killed in 2003, compared with 25 percent in 1993.
The government released the statistics to coincide with the start of a safety campaign it is sponsoring along with the group Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes Against Drunk Driving. The program is distributing a documentary about teenage drivers to 7,500 high schools.
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Both art and giving birth deal with the act of creation, so maybe it's not a surprise that some pregnant ladies -- including Mariah Carey -- want to celebrate their nine months with child in an artistic manner.
And artists like Houston-based body painter Vonetta Berry find a round belly the perfect surface for certain types of artistic creations.
"The first belly I painted was my own," she told HuffPost Weird News. "My first instinct is that, since it's round, I should do something round. But I wanted to play with shades and make a flat surface design look by using shades."
Berry gets as much as $700 for her belly-busting works of art, each of which takes between three and five hours to create, depending on how elaborate a design is used.
"I get a lot of requests for flowers," she said. "Sometimes, a mother wants me to paint what they think the baby might look like. One woman showed me a picture of a gritty ultrasound photo and wanted me to reproduce it in color."
However, her favorite belly painting was from a woman who wanted her to paint a kitchen appliance on her tummy.
"The woman wanted an oven with a little bun inside," she laughed.
Many times, women have their bellies painted as part of a baby shower ritual. Other times, they are done for charity, such as a recent exhibition done on the bellies of 20 pregnant women by Danish art photographers Marie Wengler, Marte Holten and Karoline Tira Liberkind to raise funds for Maternity Worldwide, a charity that strives to save women's and children's lives during pregnancy and childbirth in Ethiopia.
Regardless of the reason, Vancouver-based body painter Allyson Grant says that painting a pregnant belly is an intimate experience for both the mother and the artist.
"I was amazed and in awe when I worked on my first belly –- a woman who was about seven and a half months pregnant," Grant said. "During the two hours I worked with her, the shape was slowly shifting. It was profound to be that aware of a new life inside of her."
As beautiful as that can be, Berry says dealing with the little nipper is the biggest challenge of belly painting.
"When it's moving constantly, it creates this odd point," Berry said. "You don't know if it's an elbow or knee sticking out. The kicks are like hiccups. You don't know what they're doing inside."
Although belly painting is an artistic way for a woman to say she's with child, it's not very permanent since the paints are washable.
For moms who want to have a memento to guilt their kids in the future, belly casting is a more permanent answer, according to Atlanta-based mom Tisha DeShields, who sells body casting kits that allow moms to immortalize their bulging tummies in plaster or fiberglass and either paint the forms themselves or have a professional artist do it.
Some women turn their stomachs into watermelons or strawberries and even ballerinas or butterflies -- but some do far more.
"One woman had her belly made to look like a lion," said DeShields, the ex-wife of former major league baseball player Delino DeShields. "Her breasts were the lion's eyes."
Because the belly casts are permanent, DeShields says they are used in unusual ways.
"One person turned her belly cast as a headstone over the place where she buried the baby's placenta," she said.
Although it makes to sense to do a belly painting or belly cast when the bulge is at its biggest, Berry recommends moms who want to give their belly to art do so in their eight month of pregnancy. ""You're full and round, but there's no distress," Berry explained.
Grant concurs and says she learned that lesson the hard way.
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STOCKHOLM - Aftonbladet reports about the recording of the new video for "One Wish" today.
Marie explains that she is longing to release this song. "We've gotten tons of mail from fans who have asked when the new songs will be released and how they sound," she says.
Marie also speaks of her friendship with Per. "Our friendship is getting better and better every year that passes by. It's been such incredible fun to work with this gang again. Roxette is so big and intense."
Regarding "One Wish," Marie says that it's a classical Gessle-song, "easy to hum and at the same time with a damned nice beat. You can't get the melody out of your head."
Per explains he thought it would feel strange to do something with Roxette again, "but when Marie and I met, we went straight back to our old groove. Marie made some coffee, and I played hockey," said Per with a smile.
The video was shot in Filmhuset's basement at Gärdet, Stockholm. "Since the song is released [in conjuction with] our 20th anniversary, the new video will contain much from our older videos," explains Per. "Some parts of the video will be animated," reveals Jonas Åkerlund.
Per also comments about another US #1: "We don't feel we have to sell one million records this time around. It's just cool to do this again."
Roxette will be on a promotion tour this fall, including the shows "Bingolotto" and the "Världens barn" (Children of the World) gala in Sweden.
Norwegian newspaper VG also reported about Roxette today. When they enquire if there will be a new Roxette album, Marie explains they haven't decided yet. "We take one thing at a time. Right now I draw a lot, and I'm planning a new exhibition, but it's not impossible," she says.
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- Aftonbladet's article (In Swedish, with photos)
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The True Meaning of Christmas
While the life of Jesus was extraordinary, his accomplishment is possible for all of us. This is the True Meaning of Christmas.
Many claim that Jesus was an "enlightened master" but in truth his life is a demonstration for what is possible for everyone: the connection to and expression of Divine spirit. That is the destiny for all of humanity:
Your destiny is to become a man or a woman of Knowledge a vehicle for Knowledge; a person through which Knowledge can speak, act and move; a bringer of Grace, but also a person of action who can effect change, but with a greater spirit; who can speak the truth, but with a greater authority; who can reveal error, but with a greater compassion.
Only Knowledge within you can do this because it is the source of these great expressions. This is your Christmas now. It is not simply a commemorative holiday. It is not simply a remembrance of Jesus. It is not simply a remembrance of family and friends. It is not simply a time to give gifts and to be giving for a few days out of the year.
Though it may include all of these things, the meaning of Christmas is greater. Let it be greater for you. Let it be a time, then, that you remember that you have a greater purpose in the world and that you have been sent into the world to reclaim this purpose—to accept it, to experience it and to follow it so that it may be contributed. – from the Meaning of Christmas, revealed to Marshall Vian Summers, 1994
Knowledge is the part of us that never left God and which is obscured by the worldly mind. It is the part of you that is incorruptible and driven towards contribution in the world. This Knowledge that Jesus exemplified is also within us, waiting to be discovered. This is enlightenment. This is the True meaning of Christmas.
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Reciprocal Supportive Interplay between Glioblastoma and Tumor-Associated Macrophages
Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Cancers 2014, 6(2), 723-740; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers6020723
Received: 13 February 2014 / Revised: 13 March 2014 / Accepted: 14 March 2014 / Published: 26 March 2014
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Glioblastoma)
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most lethal and aggressive type of primary brain malignancy. Failures of the traditional therapies in treating GBMs raise the urgent requirement to develop new approaches with more responsive targets. The phenomenon of the high infiltration of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) into GBMs has been observed for a long time. Regardless of the limited knowledge about TAMs, the high percentage of supportive TAM in GBM tumor mass makes it possible to be a good target for GBM treatment. In this review, we discussed the unique features of TAMs in GBMs, including their origin, the tumor-supportive properties, the secreted cytokines, and the relevant mechanisms. In addition, we tried to interpret the current understandings about the interplay between GBM cancer cells and TAMs. Finally, the translational studies of targeting TAMs were also described. View Full-Text
Keywords: glioblastoma multiforme (GBM); tumor-associated macrophage (TAM); infiltration; microglia; immune therapy
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Zhou, W.; Bao, S. Reciprocal Supportive Interplay between Glioblastoma and Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Cancers 2014, 6, 723-740.
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Zhou, Wenchao; Bao, Shideng. 2014. "Reciprocal Supportive Interplay between Glioblastoma and Tumor-Associated Macrophages." Cancers 6, no. 2: 723-740.
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"The more that you read, the more things you will know."
In order to understand what you've read, comprehension must grow.
Comprehension, that action, is understanding the text.
Characters, setting, plot, cause and effect.
Skill units, novel studies, and leveled reads
These are all resources we need to succeed.
Readworks.org is a vast resource for sure.
Printables or digital, so much to explore.
The resource is FREE and has data support.
Passages, passages, passages and more.
Standards aligned with lessons plans complete.
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Readworks Org – a vast source of standards aligned, printable materials for teaching and learning
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Readworks Digital– a vast source of standards aligned, digital interactive materials for teaching and learning
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What's the how? That's important to know what to do. Below some ideas, but only a few. (Had to close with a rhyme for good measure.)
- Literature Circles
- Independent Reading
- Guided Reading
- Read Aloud
Teaching Challenge: speak in rhyme an entire teaching day and see if students catch on and join in!


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Pasta-Veggie Scramble
(courtesy of Jesse of Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs, Monroe)
Yield: 2
1/2 cup halved thin local zucchini slices (about 2 oz)
2/3 cup chopped local green onions with tops
1/3 cup julienned local sweet red pepper
2 whole Pete and Gerry Organic Eggs
4 Organic egg whites
2 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon garlic salt
3/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
4 ounces fettucini or linguine, cooked and drained
4 local cherry tomato halves
Spray 10-inch omelet pan or skillet with non-stick pan spray. Add zucchini, onions, and red pepper. Cover and cook over medium heat until zucchini is crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Meanwhile, beat together whole eggs and whiles, cheese and seasonings. Pour over vegetables. Add fettucini and tomatoes. As egg mixture begins to set, gently draw an inverted pancake turner completely across bottom and sides of pan. Continue until eggs are thickened but still not moist. Do not stir constantly. Serve immediately.