Active Directory: How to Check Active Directory Health and Force Replication
A healthy Active Directory (AD) environment is the backbone of any Windows-based enterprise network. When Domain Controllers (DCs) stop communicating …
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Active Directory: Adding Windows Core as a Domain Controller.
Domain Controller in Windows Core
If you’ve followed this series, you already know how to set up a primary and a secondary Domain Controller …
Moving FSMO Roles
Why is it necessary to move FSMO roles?
In an Active Directory environment, not all Domain Controllers (DCs) are the same. Although most tasks are …
FSMO Role Function
FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations) roles are critical roles in an Active Directory environment that are assigned to one or more domain …
Active Directory: SYSVOL Folder not replicating
Introduction
The SYSVOL directory is a folder on Windows domain controllers that contains information and data necessary for the logon system and …
Active Directory: Password Settings Objects (PSOs)
Introduction
Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft directory service that allows system administrators to centralize the management of users, groups, …
ADDS: Configure and Promote a Second Domain Controller
Introduction
In this post, we’ll see how to configure and promote a second domain controller.
Having a second domain controller is crucial, as …
GPO: How to Configure Password Policies
Introduction
In this post, I will show you how to create a GPO to meet the minimum requirements for password policies.
The first step is to access …
ADDS: Install, Configure, and Promote a Domain Controller
Introduction
In this post, we’ll see how to install the ADDS (Active Directory Domain Services) role and how to promote our new domain …
GPO: Enable script execution.
Introduction
PowerShell script execution is disabled by default on domain-joined computers. If you attempt to run a script, you will receive a message …