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Active Directory Groups

I am sure every on who uses active directory heard about the groups. Even in stand-alone pc you can see set of groups. But it is important to know how these groups are working and what each type of groups really do. In windows server 2012 have two types of groups in place. Distributed Group – This is non-security related group and purpose of it to distribute information to a group of…
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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 seize operation masters role?

If a proper DR (Disaster Recovery) plan is in place, an engineer will not needs to consider about this option at all. But it’s not a perfect IT world we living on, some business can’t afford to invest on DR. anyway, as we know AD runs with FSMO roles. Depend on the design these roles may be located on different servers and sometime all runs from one DC (which is not recommended). If…
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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 enable universal group membership caching (UGMC)?

In one of my previous posts I explain the how to setup a branch network properly. In there I mentioned how we can utilize the bandwidth between corporate office and the branch office. One of the method we can use for that is universal group membership caching. If the branch office AD servers are not acting as global catalog servers, UGMC allows to store data about membership of the universal…
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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

Active Directory + Branch office infrastructure design

In organization it may have branch offices, stores in different geographical locations. Some of these branch office network infrastructures may not need integrate with the cooperate network. For example if it’s a sales office they may communicate with the Head office just through email or phone. So that branch office network will work as separate independent structure. But it’s…
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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 ?