Active Directory Cached Credentials Overview
When log on to a computer with a domain account the user enters credentials, which are passed to the nearest…
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Category: Active Directory
Active Directory Temporary Group Membership on Windows Server 2016
Often some access rights in Active Directory must be granted temporarily, for a certain period of time. In order to…
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FSMO Role: PDC Emulator
The Primary Domain Controller (PDC) Emulator FSMO role is one of the three domain-wide operations master roles, i.e. in each…
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FSMO Role: RID Master
The RID master (Relative Identifier) is one of three FSMO domain-level roles, i.e. each domain must have one domain controller…
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FSMO Role: Domain Naming Master
Domain Naming Master — another forest-wide FSMO role (as well as Schema Master role), i.e. in the entire Active Directory…
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FSMO Role: Infrastructure Master
We continue the series of articles about FSMO roles in the Active Directory domain. This time, we will take a…
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Accessing Domain Controller from Local DSRM Account
Login with a local account on the domain controller is basically impossible, since then you are promoting member server to…
Read more Change Default OU permissions in Active Directory
By default, each newly created organizational unit (OU) in the access list includes read permission for the group Authenticated Users…
Read more How to Hide Specific OU in Active Directory?
The first thing you see while opening Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) snap-in is AD containers (Organization Unit, OU),…
Read more Active Directory Database File Compaction and Defragmentation
Active Directory is a non-relational database and its size increasing over time, the database takes more and more disk space….
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