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Windows Time Service Tools and Settings: Windows Time Service
Windows Time Service Tools and Settings: Windows Time Service
May 22, 2012
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How To Diagnose Active Directory Replication Failures
July 29, 2011
How To Find Servers That Hold Flexible Single Master Operations Roles (FSMO)
February 24, 2011
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This article describe how to find the servers that hold the Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) roles in a forest. Active Directory defines five FSMO roles:
- Schema master
- Domain naming master
- RID master
- PDC master
- Infrastructure master
How To Find Servers That Hold Flexible Single Master Operations Roles
Understanding the “ad op master is inconsistent” alert
February 22, 2011
Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Guide – Upgrading Existing Domain Controllers | Windows Server Help
February 16, 2011
Upgrade Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2008 R2
February 16, 2011
BG Domain and Forest Update
February 15, 2011
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I updated our domain and Forest to Windows Server 2008 yesterday. Waiting on a 2008 R2 DC install and I will update it further.
How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion
February 11, 2011
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How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion
After what appeared to be a successful demotion of BGBDC1 and 2, I disjoined the computers from the domain. I noticed that the computer names still showed up in AD Sites and Services but did not have any NTDS containers or automatically generated replication connections. The computer names also still showed in ADUC. When I tried to delete the computer accounts for DC1 and 2 in ADUC they said that they still contained sub objects. I had to manually delete the server containers from Sites and Services and then run NTDSutil per this article. I noticed in ADSIedit that the objects it still contained was NTFRS Subscriptions, which I had to manually delete. Also had to follow the steps to remove the DC in the list of name servers for different zones in DNS. Then finally deleted the computer account
