Articles related to Active Directory administration. (user, computer and group management)
I was looking for a possibility to check and supervise the synchronization of user-objects with Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory. In addition, I was missing a good overview to...
The following instructions make it possible to reboot and immediately afterwards shut down a non working virtual machine on a Xenserver. (more…)
Trust between Windows Server 2008 R2 and NT4 does not work „by design“ It is not possible to create a trust between a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain and a...
FSMO or Flexible Single Master Operations is a specialized domain controller set of tasks. Specialized tasks can be spread to several servers, but only one server can act as FSMO...
With Windows Vista / 7 / 8 the “DC Locator Algorithm” has been improved. However, it needs to be activated by a group policy (GPO) first. The article will tell...
The Standard “Users” and the standard “Computers” container (in which new objects are to be created in default) can be easily changed with Windows standard applications. Benefits, requirements and the...
Many administrators use KiXtart and have developed their own login script. The script checks group memberships of the users during the log-in process to connect network drives, assign printers and...
Lately we found a security gap in Active Directory. We noticed that some accounts in Active Directory were active, but contained an empty password. This should not be possible if...
After looking for the Microsoft KB article on Active Directory Group Nesting for the umpteenth time today, because I wasn’t sure on a particular issue, I decided to create a...
Dynamic security groups are now possible in Active Directory. Dynamic distribution groups already exist in MS Exchange Server. So far they cannot be used to assign permissions to AD objects....
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