In Hyper-V or VMware virtualization environment, Enable/Disable NIC in a VM is not a big deal. Even if you do not have NIC or valid IP configure, administrators still can connect to VM as it does have “Console” access. Few weeks ago, I received an email from one of my regular blog readers. He accidently disabled NIC in azure vm and he lost RDP access to it. since there is no console…
When we talk about active directory we refer it as one service but AD DS attached to many other components as well. DNS, Group Policies, SYSVOL replication are few example for this. Each of these components need to operate well in order to run healthy active directory environment. It doesn’t come easy, its involve with investment on resources, time and skills. In Active Directory Service…
There are certain windows cmdlets and utilities which we can use for replication issues troubleshooting purpose. Among those, Repadmin.exe is most commonly used Microsoft utility. This is available in servers which have AD DS or AD LDS role installed. It is also part of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). This utility recommended to run as Domain Administrator or Enterprise Administrator.
In AD environment, FSMO role seize process only should use in a disaster where you cannot recover the FSMO role holder. It should be using for day to day operations. Some of the FSMO roles (RID, Domain Naming Master, Schema Master) can still afford few hours’ downtime with minimum business impacts. There for do not use the Seize option as the first option if still FSMO role holder can…
