I had to recently troubleshoot an account lockout issue for a client and as it’s been a while since I’ve had to troubleshoot such an issue, I completely forgot the type of logs that were
Problem The domain controllers in your environment are either Windows Server 2008 R1 or R2 and you’re trying to mark an object or subtree as authoritative so that they will be replicated to the other
It’s been awhile since I’ve had to do a greenfield deployment of Active Directory as most of the projects I’ve done in the past few years involve established networks so simple setup principals I used
When I look back at the projects I’ve been a part of for the past few years, I’ve found that I average at least three to four domain and/or forest upgrades a year. This isn’t
I was asked awhile ago about locating the krbtgt account in the Active Directory Users and Computers mmc and because I was busy, I asked the friend to try searching for it on the internet.
I was recently asked about an error message someone encountered when trying to raise the rIDAvailablePool attribute in Active Directory and it took me a good 15 minutes on the phone before I finally figured
As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I’ve been performing some tests with Active Directory restores to provide myself with a refresh of the procedure as I haven’t done it for awhile and just
As I prepare to plan for a infrastructure upgrade for a client, I decided to build a small lab environment to do some tests with directory services restoration as it’s been years since I’ve had
I ran into an interesting error that I’ve never seen before through the many times I’ve upgrade an Active Directory’s forest functional level where I would receive a: The functional level could not be raised.
We had a client last week who suffered a SAN failure which required them to restore SAN snapshots that were a month old. I won’t go into the details of the situation but I was
