Category Archives: AD

Find the site name for given subnet in AD

Command to Find the site name for given subnet in AD, some time we know the IP and subnet and we have to find the site in active directory, you can use the below command dsquery subnet -name 192.168.1.0/24 | dsget subnet -site Subnet = 192.168.1.0/24 Please replece the above subnet with your subnet to… Read More »

DNS Query Types

There are 2 types of DNS query used in windows server/client to resolve the DNS entry, the output result can be diffrent for each query and the end system always uses Recursive query, you can test both the query using nslookup tool advance options [no]recurse DNS has two types of Query Iterative Query Recursive Query… Read More »

Command to find the number of Sitelink’s for the corresponding site

Command to find the number of Sitelink’s for the corresponding site csvde -f C:Tempsite.csv -d “CN=Inter-Site Transports,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=test,DC=com” -r “(CN=*site2*)” -l “cn” In the above command you will get the output in site.csv file, it contains all the Sitelinks and it’s corresponding DN Eg: Output DN,cn“CN=site1/site2,CN=IP,CN=Inter-Site Transports,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=test,DC=com”, site1/site2 In this site2 – Site Namesite1/site2 – Sitelink… Read More »

Time Service in Windows (Part 1)

Time Service in Windows (Part 1)In a large environment with site’s are located in different geographical locations, most of the administrators have confused with time services and how it’s works, in this article am going to explain a detailed description of the time service and how it operates Active directory uses the Kerberos for authenticating… Read More »

DHCP Superscope

DHCP Superscope What is Superscope? A superscope is a collection of individual scopes that can bemanaged as a single administrative unit. That’s what the booksays, so it must make sense, right? Well if that doesn’t makemuch sense to you A superscope is actually a collection of individual scopes. Whenyou group different scopes together into a… Read More »

Standalone DFS Migration:

Standalone DFS Migration:Migrate Standalone DFS from source server to destination server.e.g TESTW0001 to TESTW0002 1. Export the Standalone DFS from source server (TESTW0001)Dfsutil /Root:\TESTW0001DFS_Root /Export:c:tempdfs.txt2. Open the output file and replace the old server name with new server name3. Create the new DFS root (DFS_Root) on TESTW0002 same as sourceThen run the bellow command to… Read More »