Active Directory

How Active Directory Replication Works?

Active Directory Infrastructure is depending on healthy replication. Every domain controller in the network should aware of every change which has made. When domain controller triggers a sync, it passes the data through the physical network to the destination. In active directory environment, there are mainly two types of replications. 1) Intra-Site Replication 2) Inter-Site…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active DirectoryWindows Server

Step-by-Step Migration Guide to Active Directory 2016 (PowerShell Guide)

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…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

What is Content Freshness protection in DFSR?

Healthy Replication is a must for active directory environment. SYSVOL folder in domain controllers contain policies and log on scripts. It is replicated between domain controllers to maintain up to date config (consistency). Before windows server 2008, it used FRS (File Replication Service) to replicate sysvol content among domain controllers. With Windows server 2008 FRS was deprecated and…
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Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows Part 02 - How to synchronize value for employeeHireDate attribute from on-premises Active Directory ?

Step-by-Step Guide : Automate JML(Joiners/Movers/Leavers) process with Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Step-by-Step Guide for upgrading SYSVOL replication to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication)

SYSVOL is a folder shared by domain controller to hold its logon scripts, group policies and other items related to AD. All the domain controllers in network will replicate the content of SYSVOL folder. The default path for SYSVOL folder is %SystemRoot%\SYSVOL. This folder path can define when you install the active directory. Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 uses File Replication Service (FRS) to…
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Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows Part 02 - How to synchronize value for employeeHireDate attribute from on-premises Active Directory ?

Step-by-Step Guide : Automate JML(Joiners/Movers/Leavers) process with Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows