DNS is one of the core components for Active Directory Domain Services. In a disaster scenario, it becomes impossible to locate resources within the network and...
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- August 12, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
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Fix Active Directory broken security inheritance problem
Ran into a situation at a client location where in Active Directory, the security permissions applied to an OU were not getting inherited permissions on to...
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- August 8, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Find why an account is getting locked out and where
Many a times there comes a request that a user complains that an account is getting locked out for no apparent reason and it’s hard to...
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- June 6, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
List all SPNs in Active Directory
Ran into a situation where I needed to get all the SPNs that are listed in AD. Find duplicate SPNs Listing duplicate SPNs is fairly easy, just use setspn...
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- May 29, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Determine & Change Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory
Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. There are a number of ways...
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- February 5, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Force Replication of all Domain Controllers on all Sites
If you want to replicate all Domain Controllers, then you have to start replication on each of them separately. This may take a while. To save...
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- September 14, 2018
- PowerShell Windows
List Domain Admins & Enterprise Admins in a domain
If you want to find out how many domain/ enterprise admins are active/inactive in domain you can use the following PowerShell command to figure out: Get...
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- April 19, 2018
- PowerShell
NSLookup still showing IP of demoted Domain Controller
So had an interesting issue today where a Domain Controller (DC) was demoted yet the IP of the demoted DC was still showing up when running...
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- March 23, 2018
- Windows
Active Directory and Kerberos SPNs Made Easy!
What Is an SPN? An SPN is a reference to a specific service, for example, an instance of SQL or a web application run by IIS....
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- August 17, 2017
- Windows
Speed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites
Using the standard GUI Microsoft Management Consoles to make the change to speed up Active Directory replication is not possible. The best result of using administrator consoles will be to increase domain replication between domain controllers to 15...
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- August 8, 2017
- Windows