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…
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…
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…
