Category: Active Directory

AD 2008 R2 – Recycle Bin

So i moved our domain up to 2008 R2 domain and forest functional level - all so i could have the excitment of enabling AD recycle bin. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd392261(WS.10).aspx Enabling AD recycle bin - powershell or LDP... not the friendliest, but fair enough... But actually recovering the objects, LDP or powershell aswell... thats just not very…

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Moving from 2000 FRS to 2003 R2 DFS-R

Today, i did my first ever gig migrating a Windows 2000 AD based DFS with FRS environment into a 2003 R2 DFS-R environment (should also be the same for a 2008/2008 R2 DFS environment). These ofcourse should be few and far between, because, well, if your still running 2000 and dont have a good reason…

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AD Sites – a common misconfiguration

Over the past few weeks, i've been disturbed to run into a number of corporates that have configured their AD sites in strange ways... an example - Multiple sites around the country, DC's in 10 locations, therefore 10 AD sites are defined and all subnets made a member of those 10 AD sites (irrelevant of…

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