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Discover your AD Through LDAP
Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer is an excellent tool from Microsoft that lets you read your Active-Directory topology (Domains, OUs, Sites, Exchange servers, DFS-R, etc.) by simply...
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How To Troubleshoot Account Lockout Scenarios
One of the most challenging tasks for a Systems Administrator is discovering where and when a user account is locking. The complexity increases exponentially with the type of environment faced by the...
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Remote Desktop Load Simulation Tools
Microsoft has released the Remote Desktop Load Simulation toolset for server capacity planning and performance/scalability analysis. When planning and designing environments Remote Desktop, is useful...
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Try it: Mouse without Borders
Another great tool from Microsoft, has been revealed to me by my colleague Brandon Carder (thanks Brandon!). If you are managing multiple screens and your desk has been conquered by mice and keyboards,...
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Fix: “Description = Invalid query” When Changing Page File Location in...
I’m preparing a Hyper-V two-nodes cluster where to create a test environment of our current Active-Directory domain for DC upgrades to Windows Server 2008 R2 simulation scenarios. To keep resources for...
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How to Cluster DFS Replicated Resources on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Part III)
On How to Cluster DFS Replicated Resources on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Part I) we installed the file server role, the failover clustering feature and we brought online our quorum disk. On How to Cluster...
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How To Clear Cached Credentials In Windows
Everybody knows that Windows caches Usernames and Passwords, include domain credentials and credentials that we type in when we try to access shared resources, when we click the Save Password feature....
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How to Easily Recover Deleted Objects From Active-Directory
As soon as your Active-Directory gets bigger and bigger, as more and more you need to be ready to partially or entirely recover it. As a good domain admin, you should always have a reliable...
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Things You Should Not Forget About Using Security Groups Across Forests
Extracted from Accessing resources across forests. (Combine it, if needed, with Group Scope information from TechNet). By carefully using domain local, global, and universal groups, administrators can...
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Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers
The most recent edition of Microsoft’s server OS has introduced some changes on how common tasks have been performed until now. While on Windows Server 2000 and later editions, the dcpromo command was...
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