Group Policy can map to Sites, Domain and OUs. If group policy is mapped to OU, by default it will apply to any object under it. But within a OU, Domain or Site there are lots of objects. The security, system or application settings requirements covers by group policies not always applies to boarder target groups. Group Policy filtering capabilities allows to further narrow down the group policy…
Data Replication is crucial for healthy Active Directory Environment. There are different ways to check status of replication. In this article I am going to explain how you can check status of domain replication using PowerShell.
For a given domain controller we can find its inbound replication partners using,
Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target REBEL-SRV01.rebeladmin.com
Above command…
In one of my previous post I explained how we can manage AD administration privileges using ACLs. If you didn’t read it yet you can find it using http://www.rebeladmin.com/2018/02/step-step-guide-manage-active-directory-permissions-using-object-acls/
This Delegate Control method also works similar to ACLs, but its simplified the process as its uses,
• Delegation of Control Wizard which…
Active Directory maintains a multi-master database. like any other database there can be data corruptions, crashes, data lost etc. In my entire career, I still did not come across with a situation that a full database recovery is required in production environment. The reason is AD DS database is keep replicating to other available Domain Controllers and it is very rare that all the available…
