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 […]
Active Directory and Office 365 coexistence
Office 365 comes with an own portal and therefore requires an own user administration. Most companies, however, already have their individual AD infrastructures 211. Is it possible to use or […]
QMM AD – Resource Update via Powershell – PowerRUM
During an Active Directory migration, all clients – as far as they won’t be reinstalled – have to be transferred into the target domain. For this process, Quest Migration Manager […]
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 […]
QMM EX: Error 0xe1000005. Internal DSA error
Directory Synchronization Agent, DSA is part of Quest Migration Manager for Exchange. Sometimes, DSA produces an error which is not really self-explanatory: Error 0xe1000005. Internal DSA error. This article will […]
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
“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 […]
Dynamic AD Groups
Dynamic Entra ID Groups
