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How to transfer FSMO Roles From a Failed Domain Controller
In case domain controller, which owns FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operation) roles, is fail (virus attack, fatal software problems or catastrophic hardware failure etc.), then you need to transfer...
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How to Backup Drivers and Restore them in Windows 10
A backup copy of the drivers will not only help to restore the operability of the hardware and the peripheral devices (printers, scanners, MFPs, etc.) of the computer quickly, but also prevent any...
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GPT or MBR: How to Check HDD Partition Table Style
The modern versions of Windows and other operating systems can use one of two standards to store information about hard disk partitions structures. This is an old standard MBR (Master Boot Record) and...
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How to transfer FSMO Roles using PowerShell
When you create a domain, all FSMO roles assigned to the first domain controller in the forest by default. You can transfer FSMO roles from one DC to another both the Active Directory graphics snap-ins...
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Understanding Global Catalog (Active Directory)
In addition to the 5 FSMO roles in Active Directory, there is the sixth (unofficial) domain controller role — Global catalog (GC). Unlike FSMO roles, any controller in a domain can have a Global...
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Guide to SQL Server Transaction Log Backup
In case you use Microsoft SQL Server you might heard about the Simple and Full database recovery models. Probably you also know that a Simple recovery model l allows you to restore data only at the...
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Accessing Hyper-V Virtual Machine Console Using RDCMan
Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is an official utility from Microsoft to connect to servers via RDP (which replaced the Remote Desktops snap-in) and efficiently handle the daily management...
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Move FSMO Roles and Upgrade Domain to Windows Server 2016
In this article we will show you how to promote a new domain controller with Windows Server 2016 in the Active Directory domain, move FSMO roles from an old domain controller (running Windows Server...
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Installing WebDAV client on Windows Server 2016
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol. The WebDAV protocol allows to access files on the remote server and perform common actions: reading, writing,...
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How to Add or Remove SMTP Alias to Exchange 2016 Mailbox
Sometimes you need to add another email address to the existing user. In Exchange, in addition to the primary address, each mailbox can be assigned to several additional ones (called aliases or proxy...
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Time Configuration for a Virtualized Domain Controllers
Today we will talk about some of the features of time configuration on a virtualized domain controllers. Typically, the time synchronization scheme in the Active Directory domain is as follows: The PDC...
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Arrays Basics on PowerShell
Arrays are used very often when creating PowerShell scripts, so you need to understand how to work with them. In this article we’ll take a look at the basic examples of using arrays in PowerShell....
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Using Powershell cmdlet Invoke-Command
Nowadays PowerShell Remoting is the main tool for remote management of Windows operating systems. Therefore, any Windows administrator should know about tool’s capabilities and to be able to use it. To...
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Add Calendar Permissions in Office 365 via Powershell
This is a tutorial on how to add calendar permissions in Office 365 for your users via Powershell. You can add permissions onto a specific mailbox, or you can add it onto a security group. By default,...
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Get-service: Checking the Status of Windows Services With PowerShell
Using the Get-Service cmdlet you can get a list of all the services installed on the operating system, its status and startup type. This one and other cmdlets to get the status and management of...
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The RPC server is unavailable 0x800706BA
Most likely, a lot of you already faced with an error The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA), when you tried to connect to a remote computer or server through a specific...
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How to Extract Group Members from Active Directory and Export It to CSV file
In this article we’ll take a look at few examples of using PowerShell to extract group members from Active Directory different groups. This article should teach you how to build a list of accounts in a...
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Add User to Active Directory Group Using Add-ADGroupMember
The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell includes the Add-ADGroupMember cmdlet, which can be used to add user to Active Directory security or distribution groups. In order to use cmdlets from...
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How to Create a GUI for PowerShell Scripts?
One of the significant drawbacks of PowerShell scripts when used by users (not sysadmins or programmers) is its command line interface. The result of the scripts is displayed in the CLI window and it...
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Using Quest Active Directory Cmdlets for PowerShell
Almost 10 years ago Quest Software released a free set of cmdlets to simplify interaction with Active Directory. This set of cmdlets provides quite flexible options for administering Active Directory,...
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