Active Directory

DirSync to Azure Active Directory Connect Migration

Happy New Year vBrisketeers!  I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I thought that I would share a blog with everyone about a Microsoft project that I recently completed at work.  This article describes the parallel migration from Directory Synchronization (DirSync) to Azure Active Directory Connect.  The migration I performed consisted of my current server that hosts DirS... »

Recovering the Active Directory Domain Services – Best practices for AD administration. Part 3

Note: this post has been originally published on Veeam Blog Read the full series: Ch.1 – Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services Ch.2 – Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Ch.3 – Recovering the Active Directory Domain Services Introduction This blogpost is the third in a three-part series on AD (Active Directory) administration best practices. Have you ever had the horribl... »

Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) – Best Practices for AD Administration. Part 2

Note: this post has been originally published on Veeam Blog Read the full series: Ch.1 – Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services Ch.2 – Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Ch.3 – Recovering the Active Directory Domain Services Introduction In Part 1, Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services – Best Practices for AD administration, I focused on protection steps to pro... »

Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services – Best Practices for AD administration – Part 1

Note: this post has been originally published on Veeam Blog Read the full series: Ch.1 – Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services Ch.2 – Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Ch.3 – Recovering the Active Directory Domain Services Introduction Every component of the Modern Data Center requires authentication of some form or fashion.  Microsoft’s Active Directory Services... »