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Active Directory / DFS / FileServer / Storage December 15, 2018
READ MOREStarting: This article will guide you through the steps for Migrating your DFS mode from 2000 to 2008, in the same time we’ll migrate DFS Namespace servers from 2008 to 2016 but keep the folder targets and replication groups intact without any change This is a Microsoft summary about the process including my lab migration […]
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Active Directory / Certification Authority / Email / Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 December 6, 2018
READ MOREHaving a certificate template that would last for years is a requirements that’s become more of a need during these days due to the amount of time it takes to renew the servers which are certificate dependent. Some servers would automatically be renewed their Certificate using GPO’s auto enrollment however when this doesn’t work or […]
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Active Directory / Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 November 16, 2018
READ MORE23 May 2018 By Mohammed Hamada Exchange administrators go through hard times when servers crash, Reason of these crashes can vary but the result will most likely be a corrupted Database with dirty shutdown status. In my case as an Exchange Senior Consultant I came through many clients who have had power issues or an update that […]
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Using Powershell to copy Files between Joined Computers in a domain While doing projects sometimes you have to work with the GPO to copy certain files, scripts to apply certain commands on clients Computers however, The GPO’s File/Folder creation method takes long time to gets created and until replication through all clients is done you’ll […]
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So here is the story. I was doing a cross forest project and one of the IT guys I was working with deleted the contacts and then all users in the target forest started complaining that they couldn’t send emails to the source forest users. Once we got contacts back from the backup they came […]
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Active Directory / Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016 / Office365 April 4, 2017
READ MOREThis PowerShell will look up at your active directory user’s Proxy Addresses attribute and see if it’s empty, it’ll change it to include a Primary SMTP Address using user’s SamAccount + domain you configure in the PowerShell. ## READY Import-Module ActiveDirectory Write-host “If the user’s proxy attribute is empty the powershell […]
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After installing Dirsync Open Synchronization rule editor Select the following Then select User Common and Click Edit when you get prompted there to copy a clone of this rule select Yes First thing to do after cloning the rule is to change it’s precedence as it must not duplicate with the existing one. If […]
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What is Distribution File Server system? According to Microsoft’s DFS article: DFS Namespaces is a role service in Windows Server that enables you to group shared folders located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces. This makes it possible to give users a virtual view of shared folders, where a single path […]
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Active Directory / Domain / Domain Controller September 19, 2016
READ MOREAfter Installing child domain in Windows 2012 R2 RTM causes the replication to fail. Symptoms : Event ID 1202, 1126 and 1645 Evet ID 1202 Event ID 1126 Event ID 1645 After installing new child domain and join it to the Root domain To show the child domain’s DNS partition enlisting use Dnscmd /enumdirectorypartitions […]
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Starting with Windows 2008 R2, Microsoft introduced the Active Directory recycling bin. This is great for recovering objects back into AD if they are accidentally deleted. In order to use the recycle bin feature, your forest must be running with a functional level of Windows 2008 R2. If your forest is running at this level […]