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Recover deleted Active Directory objects with the AD Recycle Bin PowerPack
Windows Server 2008 R2 reached RTM. Among the many cool new features provided with that release, Microsoft has now added a recycle bin feature to Active Directory. The management interface provided by Microsoft for this feature is the command line, or more specifically, PowerShell. That’s great if you’re like me and you love to manage...
Active Directory Replication Errors
If you have 2 Active Directory Servers that are not replicating, ServerA & ServerB, try the following: check if the secure channel has been corrupted From ServerA, go to Start -> Run and type: \\ServerB From ServerB, go to Start -> Run and type: \\ServerA If you get and error message indicating that the target...
Disable Password Requirements in Windows Server 2003 Domains
How can I disable the password requirement for a user in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain? Windows Server 2003 provides security policies that ensure that all users select strong passwords. Creating a password policy involves setting the following options in the Default Domain Group Policy object. These policies, with the exception of those...
Moving NTDS.dit and its logs to a different location
Reasons for this include but are not limited to: •You run out of disk space and want to move it away from the system disk •You want the DB to run on a faster/more reliable hard disk (other than the system disk) •You experience performance issues and want to seperate the DB from the core...
How to Find Nested Group Members
What if your security group has nested groups and users? Then those nested groups may also have additional nested groups and users. What does that query look like? How do you find all the members? Suppose I have the following Example TopLevelGroup — Global Security Group TopLevel — User TopLevel2 – User2 Nested1 – Global...
Creating and Maintaining System State Backups on Your Domain Controller
I was very excited when I started to play around with the first beta versions of Windows Server 2008 and experiment with the latest security improvements. At first, I wanted to start with one of the more basics and important things on this new server: Active Directory. Several improvements were made on security matters that...
Troubleshooting for DC and DNS servers
“My DC is online, the TCP/IP it´s OK, the DNS service running but I still cannot make a valid connection with AD! “ This is a problem that can be present in many ways. The most common example is: you have your DC completely configure for Active Directory, the DNS server too, and you try...
DCDIAG Error RPC Server is unavailable
It’s a common best practice to run the DCDIAG tool in all DC in your forest whenever a significant change has been made, i.e. a new DC has been added or deleted in the forest. With this you are testing if the change you just made was done correctly. It’s also common that if you...
Verify your Active Directory installation after DCPROMO
I have come across Administrators who have barely managed to get the DC up and running and with no further checks rushed into installing Exchange and have had loads of problems and start looking for solutions on Exchange as opposed to get the roots right i.e. DC / DNS. Without further delay while some of...
What is the “Internal ID” or DSID ?
There was a question in the newsgroups a few days ago. It was about an Server 2008 Active Directory error he received: Log Name: Directory Service Source: Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService Date: 2009/02/11 08:03:23 PM Event ID: 1168 Task Category: Internal Processing Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: SYSTEM Computer: ServerName Description: Internal error: An Active Directory Domain Services...
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