Whats new in windows 2008 Active Directory As an Active Directory administrator very curies about the windows 2008 features compare to the earlier version like windows 2003, Windows 2008 comes with the whole bunch of features, and am going to discuss specific about the features of Active Directory server roles in Windows 2008 For Active Directory… Read More »
You have aware the known roaming profile issues, roaming profile will not work with the remote site (especially low bandwidth sites like VPN site) When user tries to log on to the system from one site and the configured roaming profile server in the other site then the system will not loads the roaming profile,… Read More »
In any environment if the employee leaves the company you have to disable the user account in active directory, all the disabled users are still there in the Distribution list and security groups and have to remove the disabled user account manually If you want to know all the disabled users from the active directory… Read More »
Your can restart the FRS service to force FRS replication in an active directory To restart the FRS service, launch services.msc from the Run option on the Start Menu And restart the FRS service and you will get the Event ID 13516 on FRS event log this will ensure the FRS status is fine Learn… Read More »
How do I synchronize/Force AD replication between two domain controllers in a Domain, normal AD replication is scheduled however sometimes we require to synchronize manually There are many ways to do this we will see one by one Also Read: Force DFS Replication/Force DFSR Members to Replicate on windows server 2008 and 2012 Force active directory… Read More »
Configure connection object schedule across time zones Domain controllers store time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When viewed through the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in, time settings in connection object schedules are displayed according to the local time of the computer on which the snap-in is being run. However, replication occurs according to UTC,… Read More »
In an active directory environment monitoring the replication between the domain controller and keep the domain controller up-to-date is important aspect, so Monitor replication health daily, or use Repadmin.exe to retrieve replication status daily and Attempt to resolve any reported failure in a timely manner, If the problem that is causing replication to fail cannot… Read More »
Check the DNS zone status from the list of servers If you are using the windows DNS server and it’s not AD integrated then it’s a primary and secondary concept, in this zone will not be replicated automatically you have to create manually an each server, if you want to check the zone status on… Read More »
Check the list of Users Group Membership List I have used “for” command to read the input file (list.txt) and execute the “net user” command for each user and store the result in output.txt file For /f %a in (list.txt) do net user %a /dom >> output.txt Note: run this command from where the input… Read More »
One of the questions asked most frequently by the system administrators is how to check the Active Directory replication or how to monitor the AD replication, most of the AD administrates know about the repadmin /showreps command however this command will provide the Last attempt status, like “Last attempt @ 2008-10-31 13:51:13 was successful” if… Read More »
