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Restoring The SYSVOL (Non-)Authoritatively When Either Using NTFRS Or DFS-R (Part 3)

This post focusses on restoring the SYSVOL when replicated through the DFS-R mechanism. For the previous posts see here and here . SYSVOL Replicated Through DFS-R - Authoritative Restore - Steps To Take To perform an authoritative restore of the SYSVOL Read More...
Posted vrijdag 13 augustus 2010 1:08 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Restoring The SYSVOL (Non-)Authoritatively When Either Using NTFRS Or DFS-R (Part 2)

This post focusses on restoring the SYSVOL when replicated through the NTFRS mechanism. For the previous post see here and for the next post see here . SYSVOL Replicated Through NTFRS - Authoritative Restore - Steps To Take To perform an authoritative Read More...
Posted vrijdag 13 augustus 2010 1:08 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Restoring The SYSVOL (Non-)Authoritatively When Either Using NTFRS Or DFS-R (Part 1)

The SYSVOL contains logon scripts and GPOs for a particular AD domain. It replicates to all RWDCs and RODCs. When, during the promotion of the very first (W2K8/W2K8R2) RWDC, the DFL is configured with "Windows Server 2003" or lower, then the SYSVOL will Read More...
Posted vrijdag 13 augustus 2010 1:07 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Auditing In Windows Server 2008 R2

Auditing in Windows Server 2008 also provided granular audit policies, but those were only configurable locally on each server through the utility called AUDITPOL. From within a GPO you could only configure the global auditing policies. Windows Server Read More...
Posted zaterdag 31 juli 2010 6:26 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Managing The userAccountControl Attribute In AD By FIM

If you are using some system manage Identities in AD and you are either using ILM 2007 FP1 or FIM 2010 you may need to configure the ILM/FIM Sync Engine to act on the AccountStatus value and translate that to the userAccountControl value in AD. So... Read More...
Posted vrijdag 30 juli 2010 8:02 by Jorge | 0 Comments
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ADMT v3.2 Has Been Released

" The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.2 to migrate users, groups, service accounts, Read More...
Posted maandag 21 juni 2010 1:26 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Managing The DSRM Administrator Account

In a previous post I explained which type of accounts can be used to log on to a DC. For W2K8(R2) RWDCs/RODCs you can use the DSRM Administrator Account and domain accounts. When you can use which account depends on certain configuration as also specified Read More...
Posted dinsdag 15 juni 2010 16:41 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Logging On With The DSRM Administrator Account

In all Windows versions until now, every DC has two account stores. The first is of course Active Directory , which is a distributed account store across all DCs and stored locally in the NTDS.DIT file. The second is the local Security Accounts Manager Read More...
Posted maandag 14 juni 2010 7:25 by Jorge | 3 Comments
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AD Schema Changes Made by Exchange

The following link includes the Active Directory Schema Reference, which provides information about the changes that Microsoft Exchange Server makes to the Active Directory schema when it is installed. The Active Directory Schema Changes Reference includes Read More...
Posted woensdag 19 mei 2010 22:07 by Jorge | 1 Comments

Information About Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2 AD

If you are interested in reading information about upgrading to Windows Sever 2008 R2 AD, then make sure to check the following links/docs: Upgrading Active Directory Domains to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 AD DS Domains (DOC) Upgrading Read More...
Posted woensdag 19 mei 2010 22:04 by Jorge | 2 Comments

Locating Domain Controllers To Access The Default Domain DFS (SYSVOL/NETLOGON)

In the case of locating a DC to access the SYSVOL/NETLOGON, the authN DC creates two referral lists. The first list contains the DCs (in random order) from the same AD site of the AD client. The second list contains all the other DCs outside the AD site Read More...
Posted woensdag 19 mei 2010 21:41 by Jorge | 1 Comments

Developing an Active Directory Forest Recovery Plan

Original Source : http://theexpertscommunity.com/item/view/id/3070 Original Author : Gil Kirkpatrick I'm working with Guido Grillenmeier, Jorge de Almeida Pinto, and Ulf B. Simon-Weidner on the Masters of Disaster Active Directory Disaster Recovery workshops Read More...
Posted donderdag 1 april 2010 13:04 by Jorge | 1 Comments

ADLDS (ADAM) for Windows 7

In previous client versions of Windows, ADLDS (a.k.a. ADAM) was available for WXP. IN addition to that it was available in every server version of Windows (W2K3, W2K3R2, W2K8 and W2K8R2). There was no official version for Vista, but if I remember correctly Read More...
Posted dinsdag 12 januari 2010 9:12 by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Migrating your local users, local groups and memberships from the SAM into AD

You may have a Windows Server somewhere that's not joined to a joined that contains lots of local user accounts, local groups and of course memberships of local accounts in those local groups. On that server you have permissioned all NTFS permissions Read More...
Posted maandag 9 november 2009 19:31 by Jorge | 0 Comments

Attribute Names in AD and how these are displayed

As you may know by now, AD has tons of attributes that store all kinds of information. Each attribute can have multiple names which are used in different ways. The most interesting name that's used is the "lDAPDisplayName" property of an attribute, which Read More...
Posted woensdag 5 augustus 2009 22:54 by Jorge | 2 Comments
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