The Protected Users security group was introduced with Windows Server 2012 R2 and continued in Windows Server 2019. This group was developed to provide better protection for high privileged accounts from credential theft attacks. Members of this group have non-configurable protection applied. In order to use the Protected Users group, PDC should be running with a minimum of Windows Server 2012 R2…
In an organization, there can be many group policies in used. Sometime multiple policies may target same thing. In that case it is important to understand which policy going to win. Group Polices precedence order LSDOU and Group Policy Inheritance decides which policy will win in Active Directory structure. Let’s look in to this further with an example,
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System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) is the Microsoft solution to monitor application and systems health in detail. It applies to Active Directory monitoring as well. Using relevant management packs, it can monitor health of active directory services and its activities. Microsoft introduced Operation Management suite to bring monitoring to the next level with advanced analytics…
