Active DirectoryMicrosoft TechnologiesWindows Server

How to allow/prevent domain users from join workstations to domain?

In an active directory domain environment by default any authenticated user from domain, can add workstations to domain up to 10 times. But there are situations where you may need to increase this limit or completely disable this limit. For ex- Let’s assume an employer bring his laptop in to office and plug it in to company network. Unless its control via NPS (network policy server) or…
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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

Domain In-Place Upgrade Method

It is important to keep the domain environments running with its latest versions. It allow organizations to use new features, enhancements available on new directory services. Typically when we upgrade from old DC to new version, we add a new server or servers to the same network and then add it to the existing forest, domain. Then promote it as DC and move roles to the new system. Later on we…
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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

Step-by-Step guide to rename Active Directory Domain Name

Few of the blog readers asked me on few occasions if they can change the AD domain name to the different domain name. Answer is yes you can, but you need to aware of the issues it can occur as well. Otherwise you will be end up in a mess with non-functioning infrastructure. Idea of this post is to demonstrate how to rename AD and also to point out some issues you may face with a domain…
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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

Network Load Balancing (NLB) – Part 2

This is the part 2 of series of articles which explains NLB cluster setup and its features. If you still not read the Part 1 you can find it here, Network Load Balancing (NLB) – Part 1 In last post I explain how we can install the NLB feature in AD environment. In this post let’s look in to configuration of the NLB cluster. The configuration of NLB will be done via “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 ?