ActiveDirectory
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Transferring a FSMO Role using NTDSUTIL
There are a wealth of things you can do with the NTDSUTIL utility and it is one of the most powerful command line utilities a system administrator can have in his/her bag of tricks when working with Active Directory. We…
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Installing a Read Only Domain Controller in a Windows 2008 R2 environment
Read Only domain controllers provide a really nice option for administrators who may want to place a domain controller in a remote site, particularly one that may not have a secure location for the server as such. The RODC may…
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Installing Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Certificate Services Role allows you to install a certificate authority in your Active Directory environment which allows you to issue self signed certificates for a variety of purposes and uses. We want to step through this process on…
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Using DSQUERY to find users and groups
In huge AD infrastructures with several OUs and thousands of users and/or computers, it becomes difficult many times to be able to locate users/computers and which OU structure they reside in. A very handy command line tool for AD administrators…
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Windows 2008 Server R2 Functional Level Features
As Microsoft introduces new servers OS’s, there is usually the option to raise your Forst Functional Level as well as the Domain Functional Level once all server side domain controllers have been upgraded to the latest and greatest server OS. …
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Adding Trusted Sites to Internet Explorer with Group Policy
If you are an administrator with a few, hundreds, or even thousands of computers and users, the beauty of group policy is a central point of managing your environment. One of the headaches that we have as administrators is managing…