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Active Directory 2008 Notes 3: The Global Catalog

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:38:07 +0000

Global Catalog Servers Validates group membership. Enables forest-wide search for resources or AD objects. Validates UPN’s across entire forest, allowing logon to other domains. Promoting a domain controller to a global catalog server The first domain controller in each domain is automatically set up to be a GC server. Every DC that gets added to an already-existing domain has [...]

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Active Directory 2008 Notes 3: The Global Catalog

Active Directory 2008 Notes 2

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:38:01 +0000

Preparing Active Directory for Server 2008 DC’s Note: These steps should be completed before promoting or upgrading an existing domain controller. Run adprep /forestprep on the schema master of the forest. This extends the schema to receive new 2008 features. The changes must replicate through the forest before proceeding. You must be a member of the Enterprise [...]

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Active Directory Structure: Forests, Trees, Domains & Trusts

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:37:56 +0000

Forest - forests define the trust relationships between different domains. Forest Root Domain – The first domain in a forest. Tree Root Domain – The top-level domain in a domain tree. Domain Tree - a tree root domain and a collection of one or more child domains. Child domains inherit the parent domain, hence forming [...]

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Active Directory Structure: Forests, Trees, Domains & Trusts

Active Directory: Operations Master Roles, Overview

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:37:55 +0000

There are 5 master roles. Schema Master: Holds the schema. Domain Naming Master: Responsible for adding/removing a DC to/from the domain. RID Master: Dishes out SID’s. An SID is used to uniquely identify any AD object. This way it can be renamed and all the data changed without the reference to it breaking. PDC [...]

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Server update

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:37:31 +0000

Blog’s server has been updated. I’ve immediately noticed an upgrade in speed. Yay! I will start putting in blog posts with my notes from my current study topic- Windows Server 2008 Active Directory configuration. Stay tuned. Originally posted 2009-06-08 23:28:37. Post from: Learn With Harv: BlogServer update Related Posts:Setting up a Cisco Access ServerNoteworthy softwareActive Directory 2008 Notes [...]

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Active Directory 2008 Notes 1

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:37:30 +0000

- X.500 and LDAP rather than flat file. – Blocks: domains, trees, forests, OU’s. Phyiscal location is represented by including all objects in a given (physical) location in its own site. - Domain: A logical grouping of computers. They share a common directory database. A series of domains can be organized, through trust relationships, into forests [...]

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Active Directory: Groups

Harv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:37:19 +0000

Distribution Groups These can not be used to perform any sort of ACL (access control) or permissions, and are therefore ill-suited for anything other than to create a list of users to whom you might want to, say, email. If in doubt, use a security group instead. Security Groups There are different types of security group. Note [...]

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Active Directory: Groups