a quick way of exporting an inventory of all the Windows Servers that reside within an AD environment. PowerShell to the rescue! Requirements for using PowerShell AD Module related cmdlets: Windows 7…
Category: Windows 2008R2
Event ID 13568 domain controller
Note:backup of sysvol folder(Policies & Script) troubleshoot the journal wrap, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Troubleshooting Journal_Wrap Errors on Sysvol and DFS Replica Sets http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292438 Stop FRS Start Registry…
To transfer forest FSMO roles not available in GUI MMC
Transferring roles from one DC to another DC is a common practice, especially if you may have recently provisioned another domain controller in your environment and are shifting roles around to either…
Cannot import a server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine on a server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host
If you have created an export of a virtual machine on a windows 2008 R2 server and try to import the export on a windows server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host, you get…
AD Migration 2003 to 2008 Server Steps
2003 Server AD Right click Domain Raise Domain Functional Level: windows server 2008 Click Ok Insert 2008 Server Disk Run – CMD – Type D: D:\cd sources D:\sources\cd adprep D:\sources\adprep>adprep/forestprep D:\sources\adprep>adprep/rodcprep 2008…
Roles of the Active Directory Domain Controllers
Roles of the Active Directory Domain Controllers Active Directory uses a multiple-master model, and usually, domain controllers (DCs) are equal with each other in reading and writing directory information. However, certain roles…