Month: October 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutesSome time ago I've discussed with Jorge some disaster recovery scenarios. At the end of this MSN chat Jorge said – great topic for blog post, and here it is. As always he wrote excelent entry about it and I don't want to repeat these informations. Anyone interested in how to recover deleted object from … Continue reading "Can I recover deleted object … maybe not exactly deleted."

Reading Time: 2 minutesFew days ago on a newsgroup (yes, Usenet still lives 🙂 ) somebody asked question what CN=Infrastructure is and if it can have something to do with GPO problems which are affecting his AD infrastructure. So … can it be a cause of such problems? I was thinking about describing some case related to objects recovery which … Continue reading "CN=Infrastructure – what is it?"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteActive Directory is replicating only changes between DCs. This is something which every person who is working with AD for a while is familiar with. Same mechanism can be used from .NET code to request changes from DC. With .NET it's fairly easy. However AD has one more mechanisms which can be used for pooling … Continue reading "Change notification in .NET"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt looks like we have to remeber new acronym for tool name – ADTD which stands for Active Directory Topology Diagrammer is, as I see it, replacement for older tool known for some people like ADMap. It allows You to build Visio diagram representing Active Directory configuration based on data from catalog itself. ADTD can … Continue reading "Active Directory Topology Diagrammer"