Sunday, September 5, 2010

‘Active Directory’ News

Generate a report of the "Last Full Backup Time" for all Exchange 2003 Mailbox Stores across the Enterprise

Friday, July 10, 2009 10:38

Managing a large and distributed Exchange 2003 environment can be a challenging task for administrators, specifically when it comes to staying on top of critical maintenance - like ensuring that all your Exchange servers are being routinely backed up. Using the Exchange System Manager to check the status of each ...

Methods for SID conversion in a Windows Active Directory Environment

Methods for SID conversion in a Windows Active Directory Environment

Thursday, September 4, 2008 22:10

Every Systems Administrator comes across issues from time to time that require either converting a SID to a friendly name or converting a friendly name to a SID. This can be useful in many troubleshooting or forensic activities, and there are numerous ways to approach this task. Fortunately, there are tools ...

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Speeding up Active Directory replication between two sites

Speeding up Active Directory replication between two sites

Friday, November 9, 2007 0:29

There is a little known feature of Active Directory replication called "Change Notification" which enables an administrator to override the default lowest replication value of 15 minutes between two sites. By enabling Change Notification between two sites you can drop the replication between these two sites down to a schedule ...