System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) is the Microsoft solution to monitor application and systems health in detail. It applies to Active Directory monitoring as well. Using relevant management packs, it can monitor health of active directory services and its activities. Microsoft introduced Operation Management suite to bring monitoring to the next level with advanced analytics…
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…
Azure AD Connect is the tool use to connect on-premises directory service with Azure AD. It allows users to use same on-premises ID and passwords to authenticate in to Azure AD, Office 365 or other Applications hosted in Azure. Azure AD connect can install on any server if its meets following,
• The AD forest functional level must be Windows Server 2003 or later.
• If you plan to…
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…
