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Monitor health of DFSR and SYSVOL in your Active Directory

https://jorgequestforknowledge.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/fixing-adsysvol-replication-and-reconnecting-a-disconnected-ad-domain-part-6/There are quite number of tasks in which an Active Directory administrator should always perform regularly during the day. These task can be varied from performing backups to troubleshooting serious problems of an Active Directory environment. Talking about tasks, some people tend to patrol through the different areas like ‘Event Viewer’ to find more information about the health of the infrastructure, some other people including me or maybe you, prefer to use other methods to do these same tasks with maximum efficiency. Some clear example of these methods are using SCOM or PowerShell scripting.

August 14, 2018 Mahdi Tehrani, GroupPolicy, ActiveDirectory, PowerShell, ActiveDirectory Read More ...

Can 'Unauthenticated' tag on NIC result to a broken secure channel?

Couple of days ago I noticed a strange behavior on network adapter of dozens of clients in my environment. The users were not able to authenticate to their workstations, throwing secure channel error. When one of the helpdesk administrators informed me about this issue, I thought it might be a typical problem of operating system including incorrect DNS configuration or duplicate names, but this was strange because basically everything related to secure channel were in place. Computer accounts were enabled in ADUC, DNS records existed, logintimestamps were updated and etc. So I tried digging in the problem to see what I can find.

June 07, 2018 Mahdi Tehrani, ActiveDirectory, PowerShell, ActiveDirectory Read More ...

Bulk change specific permissions for users

A friend of mine recently had problems regarding uploading certificates to GAL. As a matter of fact the users were unable to upload certificates when they choose "Publish To GAL". In this case the most errors you get is "Microsoft office Outlook was unable to publish your certificates. The server may be offline or your certificates may be invalid". 

April 23, 2015 Mahdi Tehrani, PowerShell, ActiveDirectory Read More ...

Create Shadow Groups (Dynamic Groups) in Active Directory

Recently I faced a request from a client wanting a Dynamic Security Group in Active Directory which automatically update its members.. However we do have the concept of dynamic objects in Active Directory (I promise to speak on that on another article), but this one was completely different. The client wanted to have a security group which automatically removes the disabled users from it. So I started a lovely conversation with my lovely friend PowerShell.

March 23, 2015 Mahdi Tehrani, ActiveDirectory, PowerShell, ActiveDirectory Read More ...