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Ned here again. The AD Replication Monitor utility ( Replmon.exe ) was introduced with the Windows Server 2000 Support Tools many years ago as a GUI mechanism for performing certain DC admin tasks. With the release of Window Server 2008 Replmon was not
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Hello everyone, Mark from DS again. With more and more companies using virtualization, such as Microsoft Virtual Server, Server 2008 Hyper-V or VMWare, in their environments these days you may end up in the following situation I recently worked on: 1)
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Warren here. In Windows Server 2003 we introduced the lastLogontimeStamp attribute. Administrators can use the lastLogontimeStamp attribute to determine if a user or computer account has recently logged onto the domain. Using this information administrators
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Herbert here. Here are some common questions asked by AD Administrators: - Why has my AD database size increased by 500MB in the last three weeks? - I see lots of AD replication in Domain Controller monitoring. What are all these changes? Both symptoms
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Ned here again. We recently had a very lively discussion about 'Lag Sites' as a disaster recovery option. If you've been digging around the MS Download Center, you may have already come across Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 . After some digging,
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My name is David Everett and I’m a Support Escalation Engineer on the Directory Services Support team. I’m going to discuss a recent trend I’ve seen where Active Directory Replication appears to be fine but one DC only in one (or more) sites begins logging
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Hi, Gary from Directory Services here and I’m going to talk today about the concept of “lag sites” or “hot sites” as a recovery strategy. I recently had a case where the customer asked if the replication interval for a site link could be set higher than
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Greetings, Todd here and I wanted to take a few moments to talk to you about an issue that arises from time to time. I will start this time-related issue exploration with a worst case scenario. The Primary Domain Controller Emulator (also known as the
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Hi, Ned here. From time to time customers ask us what their options are to document their Active Directory environments – site topologies, domains and trusts, where group policies are linked and what their settings are. Until recently we didn’t have an
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