Long wait is over for windows server 2016 and its available for public from Oct 12, 2016. So most looking for upgrade paths or at least start testing in their lab environments. (if it wasn’t brave enough to try with technical previews ).
What is new in Active Directory?
There are interesting new features such as time based group membership, privileged access management etc.
Before IE10, the internet explorer settings were able to manage using Internet Explorer Maintenance (IEM) in group policy. If your organization have IE settings published using IEM, it will not applying anymore to IE10 and IE11.
If its windows 2012 or later AD environment it is not a problem you can simply publish these settings using new IE setting publish method in GPO, but if its Windows 2008…
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…
