I have an itch to diagram our AD replication topology. Speed of links in between sites, number of users DC's and servers in sites, the actual flow of replication, that sort of stuff. Besides replmon ...

Why: "Knowing many AD terms is one thing, but being able to work within AD is another." Active Directory may be one of the most established technologies in the Microsoft enterprise stack, but that ...

Move past basic Active Directory concepts into the operational skills administrators need every day. Learn how PowerShell, Group Policy, replication and sites affect real AD management and ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Wow, I so don't know what I am doing. But here's the issue. I have two W2K8 AD controllers we'll call HW1 and VM2. HW1 is a physical box. VM2 is a virtual server on Hyper-V. At some point, and we're ...

Backups, snapshots and replication are key methods of data protection. We look at how and why they should form part of a comprehensive enterprise data protection strategy. In this article, we’ll look ...

This post provides the most suitable solutions to the issue whereby Group Policies are not applying as well as not replicating between Domain Controllers in a typical Windows Server environment. If ...

DCSync is one of the more important identity abuse techniques to understand if you run Active Directory. It does not rely on malware on the domain controller itself, and it can be carried out using ...