Let’s Improvise our skills at creating the Virtual machines using Hyper-V PowerShell. Think of a scenario that you are building a new Lab environment to test something Continue Reading
Month: March 2018
In IT world organizations will have employees leaving and joining the company. This cycle will continue forever. but, consider you are working for a School or large Continue Reading
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) simplifies access to systems and applications using a claims-based access (CBA) authorization mechanism to maintain application security. AD FS supports Web Continue Reading
Checking DNS Services status To ensure DNS services are running on a Windows host, you can run the following commands to ensure services are enabled: sc stop Continue Reading
Active directory “users and computer” auditing security events log Event ID: 512 Type: Success Audit Description: Windows NT is starting up. ————————————————————————– Event ID: 513 Continue Reading
As an IT Admin, it is very crucial task to keep the Domain Controllers up and running and periodically check for domain controller health issues. Open an elevated Continue Reading
When a computer is generating group policy errors sometimes it is a result of an expired machine account password. This can be resolved by running the command Continue Reading
I have listed some of the Ports Used by Active Directory for various services below. Service Name Port TCP/UDP Description DNS 53 Both Domain Name Service which Continue Reading
As the organization grows, employee count increases. As the employees increase, there will be increase in the number of employees leaving the company and join other organizations Continue Reading
Removing Disabled users from AD Here, I am assuming that you have separate OU’s for Application specific accounts. As, some of the applications will create a disabled Continue Reading