Active DirectoryMicrosoft TechnologiesWindows Server

How to configure Direct Access? – Part 01

If someone in your organization ask how he/she can connect to the internal network from remote location, the solution which will come to your mind (most of time) will be “VPN” (Virtual Private Network). Once you setup VPN server in your local network you can allows the users from any remote location to “dial-in” to the server and make particular device in part of network.
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Step-by-Step Guide: How to setup Entra ID Restricted management Administrative Units ?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft TechnologiesWindows Server

Active Directory Recycle Bin

What will happen if you have deleted the wrong user account? Or any other AD object? In your AD environment. “Recovery” is the answer but issue is how fast and how easy you can do it. Once active directory object is deleted, it is automatically goes in to the deleted object container in the AD. Then during the active directory garbage collection process it will clean up these…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Step-by-Step Guide: How to setup Entra ID Restricted management Administrative Units ?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

How to create Active Directory Snapshots?

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

Step-by-Step Guide: How to setup Entra ID Restricted management Administrative Units ?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft TechnologiesWindows Server

How to move active directory database to new location?

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

Step-by-Step Guide: How to setup Entra ID Restricted management Administrative Units ?