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 being integrated into the logon...
Articles related to Active Directory administration. (user, computer and group management)
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 batch-files and scripts – e.g....
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 other nice tools were simply...
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 the internet. There are some...
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 add another detail: How does...
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 the current IP-address during the...
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 2008 R2 Standard Edition and...
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 – Error: 0x8007007B (more…)
“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 always the same domain controller...
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: How many users have been...
Dynamic AD Groups
Dynamic Entra ID Groups
