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.
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…
Most common active directory related disasters are due to accidently deleted objects. Once object is deleted from active directory, it is not permanently deleteing from the active directory same time. As soon as an object deleted, it will set the isDeleted object value to True and move the object under CN=Deleted Object.
Then the it is stay there till system reaches the tombstone lifetime value.
Active Directory can hold near 2 billion objects. When the number of objects grows, the requirement for affective object filtering grows as well. Active Directory have several GUI options to search/filter specific objects. We also can filter objects using PowerShell.
In previous posts, we learned about Get-ADUser and Get-ADComputer cmdlets and how it can be used with other commands to filter…
