Repadmin is a command line tool that is of course extremely useful when it comes to troubleshooting replication problems. However as with all command lines the syntax has to be exactly right otherwise you will get a negative experience. The thing to remember about Repadmin is that you often have to conform to certain naming…
Tag: Active Directory
The call for Centro beta Testers
Kevin Beares blog has a very interesting blog entry on “Centro”. This looks like an exciting opportunity to get involved early on in the new Microsoft infrastructure solution that is aimed at midsize businesses with less that 250 PCs. If you are interested in getting involved, in the Centro Beta or Tap Programmed, then go to the…
Busy Bundling
We have been busy bundling together our recent acquisitions into a comprehensive “Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack”. Eweek has a good review of this latest offering. It consists of the following products Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack The software maker is bundling four new software tools acquired from recent acquisitions: * Microsoft SoftGrid, from Softricity * Microsoft…
(DNS) To Scavenge or not to Scavenge…..that is the question ?
The point of scavenging is to remove old and stale records from a DNS zone. Basically if you do not scavenge the records they will not get removed from the Database, so they will remain in the zone forever. This of course is not an ideal situation especially if you are a large environment, therefore…
Top Five points for a Healthy FRS
A customer recently asked me what was my top 5 components that should be in place for a healthy FRS (File Replication Service ) 1. DNS and the Active Directory replication mush work properly 2. The Active Directory objects relating to FRS are configured correctly and present on all Domain Controllers 3. Kerboros Authentication is…
Group Policy Management the future is Bright
I have worked with Group Policies for many years now, and have shared with you the frustrations of managing them in a large scale enterprise environment. Admittedly huge strides forward were taken with the introduction of GMPC , and I have used and extolled the features and functionality of this console to ease the pain…
Know your Tombstones – The Basics
The TSL (Tombstone Lifetime) of an object in the Active Directory is significant especially when related to Backups Restores and Lingering Objects So today I am going to give you the basics of what Tombstones mean. What is a Tombstone ? The Tombstone is what the Active Directory replicates to indicate to other Active Directory…
USN Rollbacks – Best Practice
I was talking best practices the other day with a customer with regards to what Backup Software to use and the use of Virtualized hosting environments. I recommended to the customer to utilise backup software that uses the Microsoft APIs, or the Software that uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy APIs. If you use Active Directory aware…
Putting your Sysvol on a Diet !
I was discussing with a Customer recently some recommended best practices for controlling the size of the Sysvol Folder. As you are probably aware, the Sysvol folder is the location where all of your Group Policy Template files, Settings and Scripts are stored. The File Replication Service is responsible for replicating this to other DC’s…
DCGPOFIX – to be used – only in the last resort.
I have been working quite allot with Group Policy objects and have recently been involved in troubleshooting them. As a last resort if all else fails, and your Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controller Policy is beyond repair,or somehow has been deleted. Then you can use a utility which is shipped out with Windows…