At the moment I am supervising an AD Domain Migration with Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory 8.7 The Directory Synchronization (DAS) with more than 400,000 objects had run stable...
Why did important AD groups “lost” some of their members? My task was to find out which members were missing. Well, I found something very interesting in the meta data...
For a long time I have wanted to write a short instruction on how to find the cause for a blue screen of death with the help of a Memory.dmp...
I want to introduce to you a function of Windows Server 2008 domain functional level: LastSuccessfulInteractiveLogonTime Basically it is about finding out when a user has logged on last. (more…)
Yesterday I faced the problem that I couldn’t save data on an external USB-hard drive on my Windows / client anymore. Folders couldn’t be created either. The hard drive was...
Which authorizations are necessary to join a computer to a AD domain? The aim of a granular delegation concept is to assign only those rights that are necessary for the...
The requirements for an Intra-Forest migration are much different compared to an Inter-Forest Migration. Intra-Forest Migration: migration between domains of the same Forest. Inter-Forest Migration: migration between domains of different...
I wanted to find out what date an Active Directory object was created on / replicated to a Domain Controller. Actually, you can find that information in the meta-data of...
Windows Server 2008 provides you with the possibility to create an online snapshot of the Active Directory database. You can load the AD snapshot with Windows standard tools and make...
The following outline clarifies the terms needed for setting up an unidirectional Trust. (more…)