active directory
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Windows Server 2016
Enable Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Recycle Bin
In our last post, we talked about the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2016. ADAC is a great way to interface with Active Directory with a task oriented GUI interface. One of the things we can do from…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware VCSA 6.5 error code 42500 joining Active Directory domain
Many VMware administrators by now are most likely looking at moving to vSphere 6.5. In doing so, moving to VCSA 6.5 appliance is the first step towards that goal, besides proper planning of course. Part of any vCenter configuration is…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Server Core the machine is already joined to the domain
In working a lot recently with Windows Server 2016 Core in a lab environment, I ran into an issue after rolling back a snapshot on a Hyper-V Server Core install. The snapshot rollback of course broke the computer account/domain relationship…
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ActiveDirectory
Nakivo 6.1 Backup and Restore Active Directory
In enterprise environments today, Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD or ADDS) is by far the most widely used authentication engine that provides identity management as well as access to resources and objects. According to Microsoft’ own statistics, over 90% of businesses…
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SQL
SQL Cluster computer account could not be configured
In working on an older Microsoft SQL Cluster server configuration recently, I ran into an issue with a lab copy of the SQL Cluster not bringing the SQL resources online as expected. After rejoining the domain and sychronizing everything with…
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ActiveDirectory
Monitor Account Lockouts Active Directory
One of the time wasters of a system administrator can be chasing down account lockouts and why they happen. Many administrators have felt the pain of parsing through logs, etc to try and figure out what is going on with…
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Windows
Blast from Past – Upgrade NT4 domain to Windows 2003
Believe it or not, there ARE still some environments out there running Windows NT domain controllers – Yes the end of life for public support from Microsoft was January 1, 2005, 10 YEARS!!! It is hard to believe, but there…
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ActiveDirectory
Active Directory Replication Time Intervals
It seems there are always many questions as to when Active Directory replicates various pieces of the infrastructure. I have put together a quick summary post below of most of the important areas of Active Directory Replication and when these…
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Exchange
Renaming a Hosted Exchange User Account FIM 2010
If you manage a hosted exchange environment and are syncing that environment with your on premises FIM 2010 server, there may come a time when you need to rename a user account. If you manage an AD environment of any…
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Exchange
Resolving Exchange 2010 Queue 4.2.0 ambiguous address error
If you have run into the message in the Exchange 2010 queue about delivery delayed or “will retry” messages with error message 4.2.0 and an ambiguous address message, we can actually pinpoint this problem to an Active Directory attributed called…
