Azure servicesMicrosoft Technologies

Azure Accelerated Networking

Early January Microsoft announced general availability of Azure Accelerated Networking (AN). It is now available for all the regions. This will improve the VM’s performance as its offloading software-define networking from CPU to FPGA-based SmartNICs. To make it more interesting, it can provide up to 30Gbps networking throughput without any additional charge. How it works? If you…
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Step-by-Step Guide : Process Entra ID Entitlement Management Access Package on-behalf of another user (preview)

Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Understanding Group Policy Conflicts

In an organization, there can be many group policies in used. Sometime multiple policies may target same thing. In that case it is important to understand which policy going to win. Group Polices precedence order LSDOU and Group Policy Inheritance decides which policy will win in Active Directory structure. Let’s look in to this further with an example, As per above figure we…
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Step-by-Step Guide : Process Entra ID Entitlement Management Access Package on-behalf of another user (preview)

Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Troubleshooting Active Directory Replication Issues (PowerShell Guide)

There are certain windows cmdlets and utilities which we can use for replication issues troubleshooting purpose. Among those, Repadmin.exe is most commonly used Microsoft utility. This is available in servers which have AD DS or AD LDS role installed. It is also part of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). This utility recommended to run as Domain Administrator or Enterprise Administrator.
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Step-by-Step Guide : Process Entra ID Entitlement Management Access Package on-behalf of another user (preview)

Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

How to Seize FSMO Roles? (PowerShell Guide)

In AD environment, FSMO role seize process only should use in a disaster where you cannot recover the FSMO role holder. It should be using for day to day operations. Some of the FSMO roles (RID, Domain Naming Master, Schema Master) can still afford few hours’ downtime with minimum business impacts. There for do not use the Seize option as the first option if still FSMO role holder can…
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Step-by-Step Guide : Process Entra ID Entitlement Management Access Package on-behalf of another user (preview)

Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes