ActiveDirectory
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How to Sync Passwords between Child and Parent Domain with FIM 2010 R2
For those of you in a multi domain environment due to the structure of your company or from migrations from legacy directory services into AD, there often is the need to synchronize various directory objects with other directory objects, especially…
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Using Powergui to mass edit Active Directory Object Attributes
If you have a specific attribute that you want to modify on an active directory object, you can simply open up Active Directory Users and Computers, go to the properties of the object, and go to “Attribute Editor” of the…
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How to manage SYSVOL DFS replication with DFS Console
There is a lot of information out there on the advantages of DFS replication of the SYSVOL folder over FRS replication. DFS is way more efficient at replicating this folder as it only replicates the changes among other advantages. Also,…
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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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Option 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 provide better performance, or perhaps take down another…
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How to delete active directory user accounts with powergui and lastlogontimestamp
One of the best new tools at the system administrator or network administrator’s fingertips is powershell. Powershell was introduced with Windows 2008 and is also standard with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Powershell provides many cool powerful new features…
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How to manage fine grained password policy with powergui
We here at Computer-howto.com are big fans of the free utility Powergui. Powergui offers a wide range of free powerpacks which offer tremendous control for admins over their environments. One of the huge strengths that Powergui provides is the obvious…
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How to Install Remote Server Administration Tools Windows 7
If you are a system administrator who administers a Microsoft Active Directory environment, the Remote Server Administration Tools or RSAT is a must have to be able to quickly and easily manage your environment from a workstation. It is cumbersome…
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Finding Global Catalog Servers in Domain
Have you ever been in need of identifying all the global catalog servers in a Windows domain? What are the ways we can determine which domain controllers house the global catalog? Most are familiar with the common method of launching…
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How to Compact Active Directory Database
In order to compact the size of the Active Directory Database you need to stop Active Directory Domain services. If you are running Windows 2008 and above you can simply stop the ADDS service and proceed with the steps. However,…
