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…
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…
Like any other database active directory database also get fragmented as its write and retrieve data from the database. It will also grow on size without clearing unused hard drive space. Well in small organization you will not feel much different but when it comes to large infrastructures it’s become issue. It needs to have regular optimization of active directory database to have better…
When I talk to administrators, network engineers about the active directory issues, errors most of the time they know how to install an active directory and how to work with in active directory environment but when I ask about terms like AD database, SYSVOL, System state most of the time I get wrong answer or incomplete answer. Most of the time engineers will not care about these until they go in…
