Active Directory maintains a multi-master database. like any other database there can be data corruptions, crashes, data lost etc. In my entire career, I still did not come across with a situation that a full database recovery is required in production environment. The reason is AD DS database is keep replicating to other available Domain Controllers and it is very rare that all the available…
In one of my previous posts I explain what system state is and how we can use it to backup active directory data. With windows 2008 server Microsoft introduces a new feature called active directory snapshots which can use to backup active directory data. Basically this tools creates a shadow copy of volumes that holds active directory data (Database and logs) using “Volume Shadow Copy…
When we installing active directory it gives an option to select the folder path to copy the active directory database files (NTDS Folder). My advice is always to use a separate partition in server to keep this instead default C:\Windows\NTDS\ folder path. But I know most of the time during the installation people used to pay less attention for this option. But what happen if you face a situation…
Like any other database active directory database also get fragmented as its write and retrieve data from the database. It will also grow on size without clearing unused hard drive space. Well in small organization you will not feel much different but when it comes to large infrastructures it’s become issue. It needs to have regular optimization of active directory database to have better…
