As system administrator, how you currently monitor your AD infrastructure? I am sure I will get lot different answers such as SCOM, Event viewer, Performance monitor, Third party application monitors etc. when the AD infrastructure expand, grow the effort and cost you need to put to monitor the AD infrastructure increase too. This is getting more complex if you using hybrid infrastructure.
In active directory infrastructure, if you need to remove a DC server the proper way is to run DCPROMO and remove it. But there are situations such as server crash or failure of dcpromo option which will lead to manually remove the DC from the system (event of even recovery, repair option doesn’t work).
How we can do it? The option is to clean up the server metadata. Let’s see how we…
Healthy Active directory replication is important for active directory infrastructure. REPADMIN is command line utility which can use to check the AD replication status. I wrote an article before about common replication errors and how to use these command line utilities for troubleshooting. If you till not read it you can find it in here.
The Active Directory Replication Status Tool…
Till Windows server 2008 R2, forest and domain functional level are not possible to downgrade once it’s upgraded. Well it’s not a problem if you properly plan you active directory upgrades. But sometime it’s save life with difficulties admins face with AD upgrades. With starting windows server 2008 R2 you can downgrade forest and function levels. The minimum level it can…
