Auto login on Windows Server 2008 R2
At a customer’s I faced the task of having to configure an account with Autologon for a Windows Server 2008 R2.The last time I had...
Articles related to Active Directory administration. (user, computer and group management)
Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster and AD authorizations
We repeatedly faced problems with the creation of a new cluster.The problem appeared in combination with modified rights delegation in Active Directory with a Windows...
Domain users can add computer to the Active Directory domain
What many administrators do not know:Authenticated domain users can add up to 10 new computer objects to the domain by default. In some environments this...
reACLing – Adjust ACLs of a NetApp Shares with VMOVER.EXE
For an Active Directory migration ACLs of a NetApp share need to be adjusted. Quest Migration Manager (QMM) allows you to adapt shares of a...
Automate Microsoft Network Monitor Traces
Finding errors that occur only a few times per day is difficult. The small tutorial shows you how to automate Microsoft Network Monitor Traces to...
Powershell – Group Policy Cmdlets
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) come with some nice CMDlets for the processing of group guidelines: Create, delete and...
Analysis of a high CPU load on a Domain Controller through “lsass.exe”
We faced the problem that “lsass.exe” caused a 100% CPU load for some days on a Domain Controller. Here is how to analyze it with...
NewSID and the “Clone” myth
Creating a new server as a copy from an existing one saves time. However, it leads to a computer SID used by two different machines....
Quest Migration Manager for AD – Problem with Directory synchronization
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...
Finding deleted members of an Active Directory Group with help of the meta data
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...
msDS-LastSuccessfulInteractiveLogonTime vs. LastLogonTimeStamp
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...
Hard disk write protected: Set or remove write-protection with diskpart
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...
Join Computer to Domain with minimum permissions
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...
Quest Migration Manager QMM and Intra Forest Migration
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:...
When was an Active Directory Object created on a Domain Controller?
I wanted to find out what date an Active Directory object was created on / replicated to a Domain Controller. Actually, you can find that...
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