Windows server 2016 was released for public (GA) on mid oct 2016. Its exciting time as businesses are already working on migrating their services in to new windows server 2016 infrastructures. In this post, I am going to explain how you can migrate from active directory running on windows server 2012 R2 to windows server 2016 active directory. The same steps are valid for migrating from windows…
Long wait is over for windows server 2016 and its available for public from Oct 12, 2016. So most looking for upgrade paths or at least start testing in their lab environments. (if it wasn’t brave enough to try with technical previews ).
What is new in Active Directory?
There are interesting new features such as time based group membership, privileged access management etc. but in this post…
Azure Active Directory management experience now in preview. This is very big step as now in one place you can management all your azure active directory related functions. Previously we had to move through few screens to access different AD related functions. For example, if I need to access identity management or Azure AD connect health both functions are in different pages. Navigation was…
In a Group Policy within an Active Directory infrastructure, there may be times when you need to exclude a user or user group. This could be necessary due to specific application or system settings. Sometime I seen administrators create separate OU and move users there just to get user exclude from particular group policy. It is not necessary to create new OU to exclude users from GPO. In this…
