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Restoring Deleted AD Sites, Zones and Objects
Restoring an entire Deleted Site Running the Powershell commands, you may see some errors ('could not add object, as it is in ') . Just Ignore these (Quick) Restoring a Deleted…
Testing whether a client is part of an AD
Say your AD Site is 'AVARMA' - and you are trying to figure out if the following IP address is assigned to that site Doing this on the local client…
Active Directory Domain Basics
Active Directory domains are grouped in a tree structure; a group of Active Directory trees is known as a forest, which is the highest level of organization within Active Directory.…
Questions to ask for an AD customer and AD Recommendations
How many domains in all, are in play? If there are multiple domains, what is the purpose of each domain? How may Domain Controllers per domain (in general, it is…
Managed Service Accounts, gMSA and Active Directory
One of the more interesting new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is Managed Service Accounts. MSA’s allow you to create an account in Active Directory that…
UPN vs SPN Troubleshooting–Event Logs
Kerberos Authentication (Any AD auth related events) go into the Windows System Event ; This is the first place to start looking for any authentication errors that occur with SPN…