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Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) Rises Again
- Sean Deuby
- Jul 25, 2016
Back in 2012, I wrote about a nifty tool known as the Active Directory Replication Status Monitor (inevitably shortened to ADREPLSTATUS for efficiency's sake) and how it was the first Microsoft tool produced in years to make monitoring Active Directory easier. Then recently Microsoft sort of took it away. Then,…
8 Situations That Put Your Active Directory At Risk
- Sean Deuby
- Dec 01, 2015
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) has grown to be a marvelously reliable, highly scalable, and fault tolerant core component of your company’s IT infrastructure. It generally works quite well without requiring a lot of attention. But the AD DS admin must put in extra work to take the service…
Thinking The Unthinkable: Do You Have An Active Directory Forest Recovery Plan?
- Sean Deuby
- Aug 30, 2015
If you want to make an Active Directory administrator uncomfortable, ask them about their recovery plan. When you ask this question, many AD admins will instead tell you about their object recovery plan. Some will describe their domain controller recovery procedures. But if you press further to ask if they've…
Vulnerability in Kerberos Allows Elevation of Privilege
- Sharon Vardi
- Nov 19, 2014
Recently, Microsoft has released a security update (MS14-068) for Windows Server. The patched vulnerability is in the Windows Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), which generates the session tickets to identities within Active Directory while accessing the Domain's resources. When clients request access to a resource, they contact the ticket-granting service…
Azure Active Directory vs. Active Directory Domain Services
- Dec 17, 2013
I'll start by saying that today's Identity technologies can be very confusing. There are many Services (in the cloud era everything is a service), protocols, solutions, SDKs, technologies and products aiming to solve the Identity problem. I'll start by comparing the basic two which might be the most confusing as…
What are good and bad Active Directory snapshots
- Dec 15, 2013
In this post I would like to explain a little bit more about Active Directory snapshots, and how you can or can't use them. 'First of all, let's make one thing very clear: VM Snapshots of Domain Controllers are not supported! Let me say that again if you have a…
What’s Active Directory Forest Recovery?
- Dec 15, 2013
Now before we talk about Active Directory Forest Recovery, let's try to take a look at what are the different recovery scenarios, and when will I need each? (Note: if you're here just for the title scroll to the bottom of the post). The first and the easiest one is…
So why does Active Directory Disaster Recovery matter?
- Mickey Bresman
- Dec 15, 2013
Well – sounds kind of straight forward, right? If my AD is down no-one can logon to their PCs, access network resources, launch apps etc’. but still some CIOs look at AD as just another service in the organization. I’ll try to break down why Active Directory Disaster Recovery is…
