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DNS Server Enforcement across an AD Forest

May 6th, 2010
Posted in Directory Services . Windows . vbscript
By stuart

Support in Active Directory for centrally enforcing client DNS settings via Group Policy Objects is at best patchy. Many of the settings work only with specific (and often legacy) versions of Windows; the “DNS Server” is one such setting. It is supported only on Windows XP Professional meaning no support is available for Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Windows [ READ MORE ]

Manage Active Directory Replication

January 24th, 2010
Posted in Directory Services . Windows
By stuart

Ensuring replication is running smoothly across an Active Directory forest is a primary Administration task. Best practice recommends the ongoing monitoring of Active Directory replication using SCOM or another enterprise management tool, monitoring can also be performed using repadmin (repadmin /showrepl * /csv) together with a little scripting to interpret the output. Typical symptoms of [ READ MORE ]

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