a quick way of exporting an inventory of all the Windows Servers that reside within an AD environment. PowerShell to the rescue! Requirements for using PowerShell AD Module related cmdlets: Windows 7 and onward with RSAT Tools Installed Windows Server 2008 R2 and onward with RSAT Tools Installed...
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July 16, 2019 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Servers
Note:backup of sysvol folder(Policies & Script) troubleshoot the journal wrap, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Troubleshooting Journal_Wrap Errors on Sysvol and DFS Replica Sets http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292438 Stop FRS Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe) Locate and click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ NtFrs\Parameters\Backup\Restore\Process at Startup On...
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November 5, 2018 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016
Transferring roles from one DC to another DC is a common practice, especially if you may have recently provisioned another domain controller in your environment and are shifting roles around to either provide better performance, or perhaps take down another DC to upgrade to a new server OS....
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October 13, 2018 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2
If you have created an export of a virtual machine on a windows 2008 R2 server and try to import the export on a windows server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host, you get the following error: “Hyper-V did not find virtual machines to import from location” The Problem:...
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March 5, 2017 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Servers
2003 Server AD Right click Domain Raise Domain Functional Level: windows server 2008 Click Ok Insert 2008 Server Disk Run – CMD – Type D: D:\cd sources D:\sources\cd adprep D:\sources\adprep>adprep/forestprep D:\sources\adprep>adprep/rodcprep 2008 Server Change the IP address to static in the same Vlan or subnet. then ping the...
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March 17, 2015 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Servers
Roles of the Active Directory Domain Controllers Active Directory uses a multiple-master model, and usually, domain controllers (DCs) are equal with each other in reading and writing directory information. However, certain roles cannot be distributed across all the DCs, meaning that changes can’t take place on more than...
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March 14, 2014 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Servers
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August 2, 2012 nkcode
Windows 2008R2, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Servers
