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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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Introduction If you use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to provide shared computers to users in your organization, you can install Microsoft 365 Apps on those computers. But, you have to use the Office Deployment Tool and enable shared computer activation t...