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Protected: CNO Blog Series: Increasing Awareness around the Cluster Name Object (CNO)
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HYPER V Logon Failures Involving Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2012
Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. The General Availability date for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 has come and gone, and we here on the CORE Team expect more of you will be diving in and taking part in all of the excitement around these new products. To make sure you have a great experience, we endeavor, whenever possible, to make you aware of situations that may temporarily ‘inconvenience’ you. That is the purpose of this blog. We have recently encountered several instances where a specific group policy configuration can affect the proper functioning of a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V virtualization solution. This is due primarily to changes…
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Windows PowerShell v2 script to update the account password.
If you have just one account to change, use DSA, LDP.exe or ADSIedit to get it done
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Windows time machanism
First we have the parameters items as seen below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters Version This entry Indicates which peers to accept synchronization from: NoSync. The time service does not synchronize with other sources. NTP. The time service synchronizes from the servers specified in the NtpServer. registry entry. NT5DS. The time service synchronizes from the domain hierarchy. AllSync. The time service uses all the available synchronization mechanisms. The default value on d
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Protected: Windows Server 2016 Reverse DNS Registration Behavior
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Recovering Data from Active Directory Snapshots
The task of mounting the snapshots of the volumes that contain Active Directory seems a bit like magic. How can you get to the Active Directory data contained in those snapshots? The secret is the DSAMAIN command. This is the executable that runs ADLDS. It is essentially a standalone LDAP server that shares almost all of its code with ADDS. You can use DSAMAIN to make the mounted snapshots look like a read-only LDAP server containing the Active Directory data as it was at the time the snapshot was taken. Consider this command: This mounts the ntds.dit file located in the c:\$snap_200712032318_volumed$\ntds\dit folder and makes it available to LDAP operations…
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Unsticking Windows Updates 2016
Here we are talking about the method of unsticking stuck Windows Updates. We have seen this several times with customers and on our own machines where Windows Updates are stuck downloading, installing, or failing to install for a variety of reasons. We found one way that fixes them all, without having too many steps, and can be done by any administrator… So what do you need to do? Simple: Stop the BITS and the Windows Update Services Delete or rename the SoftwareDistribution folder NOTE: If deleting, it would be a good idea to copy or backup this folder first Start the BITS and Windows Update Services. NOTE: You should now…
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Virtualized Domain Controller Architecture
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Virtualized Domain Controller Technical Reference (Level 300)
The virtualized domain controller (VDC) technical reference consists of the following topics: Virtualized Domain Controller Architecture Virtualized Domain Controller Deployment and Configuration Virtualized Domain Controller Troubleshooting Virtualized Domain Controller Technical Reference Appendix Virtualized Domain Controller Additional Resources
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Introduction to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Virtualization (Level 100)
Applies To: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 Virtualization of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environments has been ongoing for a number of years. Beginning with Windows Server 2012, AD DS provides greater support for virtualizing domain controllers by introducing virtualization-safe capabilities. Safe virtualization of domain controllers Virtual environments present unique challenges to distributed workloads that depend upon a logical clock-based replication scheme. AD DS replication, for example, uses a monotonically increasing value (known as a USN or Update Sequence Number) assigned to transactions on each domain controller. Each domain controller’s database instance is also given an identity, known as an InvocationID. The InvocationID of…