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		<title>How to control memberships for local computer&#8217;s builtin groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Oben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performing an authoritative restore for Active Directory deleted objects or containers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Oben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to remove child domain and other naming context from forest root domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Oben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remove a demoted or failed DC from Active Directory using Ntdsutil.exe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Oben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to configure Inter or Intra-Site Topology Generator (ISTG) in Active Directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Oben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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