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…
Happy New Year to all my blog reader! It’s been quite time for the blog as I was stuck on some projects. With New Year I am back in blogging.
Today I am going to show how to fix the Active directory group policy related error. The relevant event viewer error code is 1202.
It can be in either on domain controllers itself or the local computers. It will be visible in Event viewer >…
In previous post I explain about the different groups we can create in a domain environment. In an organization some time you may need to grant permissions for different users to manage these groups and its memberships. But some time it is better if we can lock some of these memberships for security reasons. For example let’s assume you have a group which have access to financial records of…
Like any other database, DHCP server database also need maintenance in periods to keep the performance and availability. In large infrastructures, DHCP database can grow fast. Like we do for other databases, DHCP server DB also can compact. Microsoft recommends to do this for any database larger than 30mb.
Back in windows NT time Microsoft introduce a utility call “Jetpack” which can…
