ActiveDirectory
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AD Replication Status Tool New Open Source Alternative
Microsoft released the AD replication status tool, a GUI tool to help visualize and troubleshoot replication. However, the tool is now deprecated and can’t be downloaded now. Let’s look at AD Replication Status Tool open-source alternative to see another great…
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Active Directory Users and Computers: Ultimate Management an Security Guide
There are many tools to manage Active Directory. Let’s take a look at using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) and see how you can use it to manage and secure your AD DS environment. Table of contentsWhat is Active…
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Check Server Replication Status in Active Directory
DCDiag is a great command line tool to troubleshoot Active Directory replication
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Domain Controller PacRequestorEnforcement Registry Key – Enable Audit and Enforcement
In case you didn’t already know, Microsoft is addressing critical vulnerabilities in the way Active Directory authentication works, specifically related to the KDC and Kerberos tickets. It will fundamentally change the way domain controllers can interact with one another and…
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Manage New Microsoft Edge Chromium with Group Policy
Microsoft Edge Chromium is gaining steam as a viable browser that is ready for the enterprise environment. Microsoft is officially saying that Edge Chromium is the way forward with IE settings and defaults being migrated over to Edge Chromium. Recently,…
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Active Directory LDAP Channel Binding Patch Coming in March
Update – It appears that Microsoft will not be changing the defaults with the rollouts in March https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html Have you heard about the change coming to the way connections will be made by default to Active Directory? Microsoft is has…
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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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Troubleshooting Domain Join Issues
Have you ever had one of those situations where you could not get a workstation or server to join the domain? I had this happen recently and wanted to detail a few of the steps I used to troubleshoot and…
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SQL Server Cannot generate SSPI context Multiple Domains
Recently in working with a multi domain environment, I ran into an issue involving SQL connectivity from a handful of client computers to a certain SQL server. The errors involved SSPI context errors. In fact the exact error when trying to…
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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…
