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Domain Administrators sometime face a scenerio in which they have multiple workstations or member servers as part of a domain and will like to restrict/control which user should be members of any of the built-in local groups, such as Administrators, Backup Operators, Remote Desktop Users, Power Users etc. Rather than attempting to accomplish this manually, it will be [...]
Just thought I should list the step by step process for performing authoritative restore in active directory for windows server 2003. But first, just a brief summary of the difference between an authoritative and a non authoritative restore. A non Authoritative restore is hardware failures or other software issues that results in the complete restoration [...]
In previous post I outline some guidelines on how to remove demoted domain controller from domain using ntdsutil.exe. In this post, I will give guides on removing a naming context, be it a child domain or a DNS zone from Active Directory usning ntdsutil.exe. First. make sure that no domain controller or replica objects exists [...]
If you ever have been in a situation where your domain controller crashes or failed and there is no way you intend to bring it back to production then you must remove the failed domain controller objects from Active Directory. In a regular procedure, to remove Domain controller from domain, you will run dcpromo to [...]
The Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) is an active directory process that runs on domain controllers and automatically identifies or calculates the most efficient replication topology for the network using data provided by the network in active directory sites and services. To improve replication traffic in most networks, the ISTG might be enabled so that KCC [...]
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