There are few ways to create user objects in Active Directory. If it’s using GUI, it can be done using Active Directory Administrative Center or Active Directory Users and Computers MMC. If it is using command line, it can be done using windows command-line or PowerShell. In this demo, I am going to show how we can create user object using PowerShell.
In order to create user object in…
This is my first blog post in 2018. So, first of all Happy New year to my blog readers!
In many occasions, I have written articles about Active Directory Migrations. But still I get lots of emails from readers to clarify things about AD migrations. So, I thought to revisit it by covering most common questions I gets. Also in this blog post, I will show how to do the AD migration only using…
If you are maintaining healthy AD infrastructure it is very much unlikely to see lingering objects in AD. Let’s assume a Domain Controller has been disconnected from Active Directory environment and stayed offline more that the value specified tombstone lifetime attribute. Then it was again reconnected to replication topology. The objects which were deleted from Active Directory during the…
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…
