1. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Last Interactive Logon Information Feature
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... Essentially, when the feature is enabled two things happen: The Windows Server 2008 AD DS Domain Controllers write this information to the AD DS properties The Windows NT 6.x (Windo...

2. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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...” is Exchange 2007, so one of my test labs happens to consist of a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller running Exchange 2007 SP1 (yeah, I know this isn’t really good practice, ...

3. Finding the Virtual Server Hosts in your domain
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...ot; " & APPDATE & vbCrLf) ' print descriptions of what's happening echo "Locating a domain controller and querying Active Directory " & _ "Domain Services (AD DS) for...

4. Querying for an InvocationID in retiredReplDSASignatures yields more than one result
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...uplicate retired invocationID is most likely a result of you having performed an IFM installation of a domain controller. When you perform an IFM installation a portion of the process is treated in ...

5. Creating an active directory test lab environment from your production AD forest
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...ab? Summarised, the steps are as follows: Build a virtual server and promote this server to a domain controller in the production environment. This is your development DC. On the devel...

6. Find all read only domain controllers (RODC) in the domain
(Knowledge Base/Code)

...= oRootDse.get("dNSHostName") sDSFunctionality = _ getDSFunctionality(oRootDse.get("domainControllerFunctionality"), _ oRootDse.get("supportedCapabilities")) ...

7. Ascertain whether or not a DC is read-only (RODC)
(Knowledge Base/Code)

...: Example VB Script code that illustrates one (interactive) way of ascertaining whether or not a given domain controller is an RODC (read only domain controller). This script connects to the DC t...

8. HOW TO: Delegate the ability to add a domain controller to the domain (using minimum permissions)
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

...larger enterprise deployments there is often the requirement to automate the building and promotion of domain controllers and their hardware. Such deployments utilise service accounts for different ta...

9. HOW TO: Manually trigger the directory service garbage collection process
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

...nd will modify doGarbageCollection using the freeware tool, ADMOD. Again, as an example we target the domain controller dc01. admod -b "" doGarbageCollection::1 - dc01 Modifyi...

10. INFO: Fine Tuning Net Logon’s SRV Resource Record (RR) registrations
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...can become necessary to control which Domain Name System (DNS) Resource Records (RR) are registered by Domain Controllers (DC), as well as the weight and priority of these records. This article discu...