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Hardware dies, it always has and it always will eventually. And if you ever had a Windows 2000/2003 domain controller die on you, you’ve no doubt gone through the painless but time consuming process of removing a failed DC. I wrote an article Read More...
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As with each edition of Windows Server, the 2008 release also includes some new additions. In order to take advantage of some of these new features you need to upgrade your Active Directory Forest and Domain functional levels. You can read about the Windows Read More...
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Here at the LazyAdmin we have talked quite a bit about using BitLocker with Windows Vista . With the introduction of Server 2008 you can now also leverage Bitlocker with your 2008 servers. This is particularly attractive when deploying Read Only Domain Read More...
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We have talked about enabling BitLocker Active Directory integration in a previous post now we will take a look at prepping your domain to implement this integration. To take advantage of the several of the more compelling feature such as RODCs and Windows Read More...
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One of the nice things with RODCs is the ability to control cached credentials. You can also pre-populate passwords for specific users, like a branch office user, in case the branch office connection goes down but this can be a security concern if that Read More...
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The next video in our Server Core series is going to cover making our demo server into a RODC or Read-Only Domain Controller . One pre-requisite for a RODC is an existing Windows 2008 based DC in the domain. You also need to run adprep /rodcprep before Read More...
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A while back we did a short series on ADMT. Today, TLA reader Dan Dill, goes further into ADMT with this article on setting up a password migration server for ADMT. The password migration server is a component that will help you to migrate passwords when Read More...
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So we know how x64 can benefit Exchange 2007 and Terminal Services, but what about one of the most common parts of a Windows network, Active Directory? Similar to the limitations with terminal services and Exchange, AD suffers from the 2GB virtual memory Read More...
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Just about everyone knows that a Windows operating system may have only one computer name. While this is true, there is a way to add additional NetBIOS names to a Windows operating system, effectively giving the machine additional computer names or identities Read More...
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When you create a new user or computer account in Active Directory the accounts are created in the CN=Users and CN=Computers containers by default. Although these accounts will inherit GPO's linked to the domain, it is not possible to apply Group Policy Read More...
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In the final part of this three part series, James takes us through the steps required to complete the Exchange Server 2003 portion of the domain rename. Once your domain controllers are back up, let's work on exchange to make it work with the renamed Read More...
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In part two of this three part series, author James Rudley takes us through the actual renaming process. Part one covered the setup of the tools and part three will cover the Exchange Server 2003 portion. Rendom will translate this file into a sequence Read More...
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Renaming a domain has been made easier in Windows Server 2003 domains, however it is no walk in the park. James Rudley (forum member saint) recently went through the process and documented it to be posted here. It is a three part article and if you are Read More...
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Any administrator knows the importance of backups. Backing up GPOs is a good practice to get into before making any changes and Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) makes it easier than ever! To backup the GPO from within GPMC, drill down to the Group Read More...
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Modifying user attributes in AD can be time consuming when you have a large number of users to edit. You can use VBS to speed the process, and Windows 2003 domains have some ability to mass edit AD users. ADModify is a free tool that allows you to mass Read More...
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In the previous two articles in this series, we looked at setting up ADMT and then moved some accounts. The last part of this series will cover reporting. You can run reports on ADMT before and after a move is performed. I recommend you run reports before Read More...
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If you read Part 1 of this series, you have created a trust between the 2000 source domain and 2003 target domain, installed ADMT and opened up the ADMT tool. This part will go over running user, group and computer migrations and Part 3 will cover reporting. Read More...
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Upgrading a Windows 2000 domain to Windows Server 2003 is a relativley easy procedure however moving from an old domain to a new one is not as easy. Thankfully Microsoft offers the Active Directory Migration Toolkit to ease this process. ADMT allows you Read More...
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Changing passwords is an important task. The longer you use a password the better the chance that someone finds out what it is. Password policies help but not all passwords are managed by the policy. The Disaster Recovery Mode (DSRM) password is one such Read More...
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Windows Server 2003 R2 was released a while back and along with all the new features come some schema changes. Due to these schema changes, if you attempt to promote a Windows Server 2003 R2 server to a DC you will get an error. These schema upgrades Read More...
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