Monthly Archives: October 2011

Host-Based Backup and Restore of Virtual Domain Controllers Whitepaper

I’ve seen a couple of vendors release backup products, specifically targeted at Hyper-V. Some solutions utilize the Hyper-V Volume Shadow Service (VSS) writer to make backups. The big question, however, is whether this type of backup is of any use to backup Domain Controllers for disaster recovery. Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of […]

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Whitepaper on Host-Based Backups and Restores of Domain Controllers

This page contains the following whitepaper:  Host-Based Backups and Restores of Domain Controllers How to be effective in backing up and restoring virtual Domain Controller with host-based backup solutions   Title : Host-Based Backups and Restores of domain Controllers How to be effective in backing up and restoring virtual Domain Controllers with host-based backup solutions Authors […]

DCPROMO Advanced Mode, what does it do?

In the past 11 years, Microsoft has released four versions of Windows Server on which you could install Active Directory. On all these platforms, Microsoft offered two ways to promote a server to a Domain Controller. In this blogpost I’ll reveal the differences between the advanced mode and normal mode for dcpromo.exe for the Windows […]

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System Center Monitoring Pack for Active Directory was updated today

While, as an Active Directory admin, you could monitor your Active Directory Domain Controllers by hand on a weekly basis and iron out the kinks and hope your colleagues or customers don’t get affected by problems that plague the servers running these critical networking services, you could also just use System Center Operations Manager.

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