Active Directory Fighting Azure AD Connects custom installer I’ve recently been spending more and more time looking into various cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure. One of the projects I’ve been working on required the on-premises active directory
Active Directory Exploring GPO Loopback Processing First of all, what is GPO loopback processing? It's a way of deploying user GPO settings to a machine account. Ok, so what's that mean? Inside gpedit.msc are two groups, users and
Tools AD Find AD Find is the second of the two tools I managed to find in the same week. This little tool weighs in at just 700K for the download and about 2mb for the
Tools AD Explorer from Sysinternals Sometimes it's possible to stumble upon a tool and wonder just how you would have gotten a task accomplished without it. Last week I had the good fortune to stumble upon two such
War Stories Legacy Systems and a very handy SQL comparrison Tool On Friday, I had the "pleasure" of having to get a legacy system up and running. This system was originally introduced to allow users in the business to manage group membership
Technical NT4 Emulator Key If you happen to run a large Windows environment you might be familiar with the in place upgrade method of upgrading your domain to Active Directory. If you run a large Windows environment
Technical FSMO Confusion in multiple domains When I teach classes on Active Directory I will cover various domain models including the empty root domain model, this model has several security,delegation and political based benefits that I will cover
Active Directory Death of a Domain Controller My home network has just a single domain controller on it. This domain controller runs a few other servers such as spam checking email and so on. A few weeks back when the
Tips Display FSMO role holders Imagine the scene - You are consultant and have been asked to fix an Active Directory issue - One of the first things you need to find out is where all the FSMO