Automated Group Memberships in Active Directory
In Microsoft’s Active Directory groups are used to manage permissions and access to shares and apps. But with a big number of users accounts the...
Articles related to Active Directory administration. (user, computer and group management)
Windows 7 – Changed Behavior during Moving Process
With Windows 7, the behavior of Windows Explorer while moving files and directories seems to have changed. So far, we had the following rules: Moving...
Active Directory Migration – Exchange First
Most Active Directory migrations deal with the consolidation of domains or the incorporation of new business units. The most important goal of these projects is...
Mapped drives are not available in Windows Explorer
Drive mapping and the local administrator group.Or: What do you have to do that mapped drives are available (if you are an admin)? Besides them...
Security gap: Remote code execution and Group Policies
In its February-Patch, Microsoft covers an important security gap which allows attackers to execute malicious code on user PCs. It concerns the function for executing...
AD Sites and Services: NLTEST /DSAddressToSite
Who knows all functions of NLTEST? In answer to this question, not a lot of people would say “yes”. After the triumph of Powershell, some...
Domain and Forest Functional Levels – Overview
Today I recognized, that it is not easy to find a comprehensive summary table about Active Directory Domain and Forest Functional Levels (operating mode) on...
Lync in the resource forest – msRTCSIP-OriginatorSid
In another article, I describe how an Exchange Resource Forest scenario works and how an Exchange First Migration can be used. Today I want to...
DNS records not updating
Updating of DNS records in the Active Directory. Lately, I was asked for advice about why DNS records in Active Directory were not updated with...
Windows Server 2008 R2 vs. 2012 R2
For some time now I assist a customer with his Global Request Management. People repeatedly ask me the following questions: How much RAM can Windows...
Activating Windows leads to error – DNS Name does not exist
Trying to activate a Windows Server 2008 (or higher) or Windows 7 (or higher), can lead to the following error: DNS Name does not exist...
“The target principal name is incorrect” Error during manual AD replication
During a manually initiated Active Directory replication at a customer, I repeatedly got the following error message “The target principal name is incorrect”. It was...
LDAP Search with PowerShell – Find-LdapObject
I was looking for a possibility of a fast LDAP search with PowerShell for a daily report. I wanted to create the following report automatically:...
Office 365 and On-Premise with Federation and DirSync
Today I want to write about Office 365 and On-Premise with Federation and DirSync.As I think functionality and typical questions are the most interesting for...
IIS maintenance page with App_offline.htm
To prevent that halfway-updated websites are shown to users – it is recommendable to set up an IIS maintenance page. Thus, the user gets reliable...
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