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Seize FSMO Roles

Instructions Commands Launch the Command Prompt as an Administrator. Start ntdsutil: ntdsutil Navigate to roles: roles Navigate to connections: connections Type: connect to server SERVERNAME Example: connect to server server-dc1 Quit ...

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Windows Server
Domain Controller
FSMO
Maintenance

DC Authoritative (D4) Restore for DFSR

Introduction An authoritative (D4) restore is sometimes also reffered to as an authoritative (D2) synchronization. This procedure is for performing an authoritative restore with a multiple domain controller environment. IN A SINGLE DOMAIN CONTROLLER ENVI...

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Windows Server
DFSR
Domain Controller
Maintenance
Replication
Restore
Solution
SYSVOL

Adobe Acrobat Deployment (Terminal Server)

Introduction The Adobe Acrobat Deployment will used Adobe's Named User Licensing (NUL) method. NUL is the preferred activation method. DC products support NUL and user management via the Admin Console. The Console supports managing single user and grou...

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Windows Server
Adobe
Adobe Acrobat
Deployment
Session Host

DoD STIGs Implementation and Deployment

Introduction Group Policy Objects (GPOs) provides an infrastructure for centralized configuration management of the Windows operating system and applications that run on the operating system.  GPOs are a collection of settings that define what a system ...

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Windows Server
Deployment
DoD
Group Policy
Security
STIGs

SYSVOL FRS to DFSR Migration

Introduction Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008DFS Replication is a role service in Windows Server that enables you to effic...

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Windows Server
DFSR
Domain Controller
FRS
Maintenance
Migration
Replication
SYSVOL

DC Non-Authoritative (D2) Restore for DFSR

Introduction A non-authoritative (D2) restore is sometimes also reffered to as a non-authoritative (D2) synchronization. This procedure is for performing a non-authoritative restore with a multiple domain controller environment. There are 2 type of resto...

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Windows Server
DFSR
Domain Controller
Maintenance
Replication
Restore
Solution
SYSVOL

SYSVOL and NETLOGON Share Missing

Introduction SYSVOL and Netlogon shares aren't shared on a domain controller. The following symptoms or conditions may also occur: The sysvol folder is empty. The affected domain controller was recently promoted. The environment contains domain contr...

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Windows Server
DFSR
Domain Controller
Maintenance
NETLOGON
Replication
Solution
SYSVOL

DC Non-Authoritative (D2) Restore for FRS

Introduction This section is an excerpts by Microsoft: Non-authoritative restores are the most common way to reinitialize individual members of FRS replica sets that are having difficulty. These difficulties may include: Assertions in the FRS service ...

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Windows Server
FRS
Maintenance
Replication
Restore
Solution
SYSVOL

DC Authoritative (D4) Restore for FRS

Introduction This section contains excerpts from Microsoft: Use authoritative restores only as a final option, such as if there are directory collisions. For example, you may require an authoritative restore if you must recover an FRS replica set where ...

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Windows Server
Domain Controller
FRS
Maintenance
Replication
Restore
Solution
SYSVOL

Pin Version Flavour

Introduction Pinning a flavour forces OPNsense to pull plugin versions unique to the flavour being used. Otherwise, the latest version of the plugin will be pulled, which may not be adequite due to possible compatability issues. Pinning a flavour means s...

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Flavor
Flavour
Network
OPNsense
Update

Create/Add an Administrator User

Overview N/A Requirements Snippet must be ran using administrator level permissions. Snippet Code Open the CMD prompt. Add the user: net user /add <username> <password> Add the user to the administrators group: net localgroup adminis...

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Snippet
Snippet Language
CMD
Windows
Add
Administrator
Create
Permission

Add a User to the Local Administrators Group

Overview N/A Requirements Snippet must be ran using administrator level permissions. Snippet Code net localgroup administrators <domain>\<username> /add Snippet Documentation N/A Sources   N/A KB Change/Issue Log yyy...

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Snippet
Snippet Language
CMD
Windows
Add
Administrator
Management
Permission

LSI Firmware Update

Introduction This guide covers updating the LSI 9300-xx firmware to version 16.00.12.00. This version resolves performance issues causing the controller to reset when using SATA HDDs. This guide was used to flash an LSI 9300-8i from IR to IT mode. After ...

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Firmware
FreeDOS
LSI
TrueNAS
Update

Backup/Restore Boot Environment

Introduction Create a ZFS Boot Evironment (BE) to rollback to if problems are encountered after an OPNsense update. Requirements ZFS Installation of OPNsense 21.7+ Instructions In this guide, OPNsense versions 21.7.4 and 21.7.5 are used as an ...

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Backup
BE
bectl
Boot Environment
OPNsense
Restore
Update
ZFS

AppRiver ETP Setup and Configuration

Introduction This guide covers the AppRiver Email Threat Protection setup/configuration process for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. This guide is to be followed from the top down. Requirements Administrative access to AppRiver. Administrative acces...

Configuration
Email
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
Security
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Production Use
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AppRiver

Set Time (NTP) Server

Overview This guide is generally used to correct time server information on servers that either do not have a time server set or are set improperly, such as with an inaccurate NTP source. Do not use this information without consulting with your System/Ser...

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Snippet
Snippet Language
CMD
Windows Server
Set
NTP
Time
Verify

Owner and ACL Rule Rewrite (Top Down Access/Fix)

Introduction This script was originally created to fix file permissions issues that were slowing down a client migration robocopy migration. The script targets all sub-folders within a given folder path ($folderPath) and changes the folder "Owner" and add...

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Windows Server
ACL
Automation
Cleanup
File Server
Fix
Maintenance
Permission
PowerShell
Script
PowerShell
takeown.exe

File Migration (Robocopy) w/ Statistics

Introduction This script was originally written to process Robocopy command (.CMD) files sequentially, reporting statistics on each Robocopy job. Statistics include: Start Time, End Time, Total Process Duration, and any call errors when running the .CMD f...

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Production Use
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ACL
Automation
File Server
Migration
PowerShell
Script
PowerShell
Windows Server

Entra (Azure AD) Connect - Install

Introduction Although it is possible to install Entra Connect on the domain controller, Microsoft advises against it. Instead, it is preferable to install Entra Connect on a separate domain-joined Windows Server. For the purpose of this demonstration, how...

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Active Directory
Azure AD
Azure AD Connect
Configuration
Entra
Install
Migration
Sync
Windows Server

Transfer FSMO Roles

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Production Ready
Yes
Production Use
Yes
Domain Controller
FSMO
Migration
Public