Group Policy replication change Before I start the SYSVOL replication changes in windows server 2008, I would like to explain how the GPO has been replicated in windows server 2003 and earlier versions Also Read: force sysvol replication on Windows 2008 and windows server 2012 Understanding SYSVOL/GPO replication Group policy template (GPT) and group policy… Read More »
It’s a simple online IP Subnet Calculator, using this Subnet Calc you can calculate, Mask Bits, Start IP, End IP, Address Range, Subnet ID, Broadcast Address.And this can be used to find the Subnet Mask for the given Mask Bit or find the Mask Bit for the given Subnet Mask. No need to download and… Read More »
Online Tool to Convert Windows Timestamp to readable format If you extract the Lastlogon and Lastlogontimestamp attribute value from CSVDE tool or ADSIEDIT, attribute value would not be readable format and you can’t understand the format, you can use this Online Tool to convert Timestamp to readable format No need to download and install, it’s… Read More »
SYSVOL Folder location and Structure: About each folder under the SYSVOL share in Domain Controller SYSVOL folder used to store a copy of the domain’s public files like system policies, Group Policy settings, and login/logoff scripts, which are replicated to all other domain controllers in the Active Directory domain through File Replication Services (FRS), You… Read More »
Using DNS Management tool you can check, create and delete DNS entry in Windows DNS server, it seems to be simple however in a large environment it’s not that simple, let’s say if you have multiple zones and every zone have huge DNS entry’s then it’s very difficult to check, create and delete the DNS… Read More »
DNSCMD command line tool can be used to create DNS entry, I would like to explain how we can use DNSCMD to create and delete bulk DNS record from text file, creating and deletion bulk DNS entry it very simple if you use this procedure How to create Bulk DNS record First we will see… Read More »
Unable to edit/view Group policy settings from windows 2003 If you have mixed environment like Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 then some of the group policy changes need to be configure from windows server 2008 or Windows Vista & Windows 7, you can’t edit or see the policy settings from windows 2003/windows XP because windows server… Read More »
Exchange 2007 Replication: Exchange 2007 has different types of High Availability features, I would like to discuss about how the data been replicated to various exchange server to provide High Availability, we know the LCR, CCR, SCR and SCC features from Exchange 2007, Will see how this features replicate the Exchange database to other Disk or… Read More »
Group Policy 2008 Features: I will discusses about the Group policy changes in windows 2008 server, Microsoft have made some of interesting changes and added new features in Group Policy 2008, first I will list the features and explain one by one • New Administrative template files (ADMX)• New Policy settings o Power options … Read More »
Convert lastlogon timestamp to readable format using W32TM and Excel Most of the active directory admin have received a request to extract the last logon time for the list of users and computers from AD, we can use the CSVDE command to extract the lastLogon attribute value however from CSVDE output the lost logon attribute… Read More »