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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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Transfer FSMO Roles
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