Category: Active Directory

November 20, 2018

How to count number of objects in active directory

How to count number of objects in active directory How to count how may objects in AD? How many users, computers and group? Due to compliance or Asset/inventory/License management purpose we always need a count of system we have in our environment. If you are running Microsoft Windows platform and has Active Directory environment. So, best solution is “Get-AD” power-shell...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

November 14, 2018

How to Upgrade Active Directory from 2008/2012 to Server 2016

How to Upgrade Active Directory from 2008/2012 to Server 2016 Technology can’t be last forever, we have to keep moving on and have to be up-to-date. But the problem arise when we think to upgrade it has to be less risky and minimal of downtime. We always think of a way where low risks are involved. Today, we are going...

Categories Active Directory/Migration/Windows

October 17, 2018

Configuring High Availability on DHCP Server Role

CONFIGURING HIGH AVAILABILITY ON DHCP SERVER ROLE We always need a Failover or Load Balancer for our Network continuity (High Availability). Today I am going to discuss DHCP failover or Load Balance Scenario which will help us to give redundancy over DHCP failure.   Before we start configuring High Availability on DHCP Server Role in Windows Server 2016, just recap...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

October 4, 2018

DNS Error | A new record cannot be created

DNS Error | A new record cannot be created DNS Error | A new record cannot be created. An alias (CNAME) record cannot be added to this DNS name. The DNS name contains records that are incompatible with the CNAME record. If you are trying to create a new alias (CNAME) record in Windows DNS server and gets the DNS...

Categories Active Directory/Server 2008/Server 2012/Windows

September 26, 2018

Wintel Interview Questions and Answers

Wintel Interview Questions and Answers   1) Differences b/w Conditional Forwarding and Stub Zones. Ans:- Both do the same thing like forwarding the requests to appropriate name servers who are authoritative for the domains in the queries. However, there is difference in both, Stub Zone are Dynamic and Conditional forwarder are static. Conditional Forwarding –   Where you want DNS clients...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions/Windows

September 26, 2018

Active Directory Interview questions with answers

Active Directory Interview questions with answers Learn about basic Active directory functionality. Happy learning!!! Below are the Active Directory Interview Questions and answers. However there are more Interview question: Wintel /AD Interview Questions:- https://www.yourcomputer.in/wintel-interview-questions-and-answers Windows Cluster Interview questions :- https://www.yourcomputer.in/windows-cluster-interview-questions-and-answers Personal Interview Questions:- https://www.yourcomputer.in/personal-interview-questions-answers   What is Global Catalog and its function? The global catalog is a distributed data repository that contains a...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions

January 29, 2018

Windows AD Account lockout numerous time a day

Windows AD Account lockout numerous time a day Here are the steps to troubleshoot the AD account lockout issue occurring numerous time a day. It will cover to trace the bad computer name from where account is locking out and steps to clear the cache You can use tool like eventcombMT to connect log on other dc’s and look for...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

July 5, 2016

System Admin Interview Questions for Software Development Organisation

Nowadays, we have many Job profiles in Product Development Companies that require somewhere around all-rounder profiles for System Admins. For that they require Network, Windows, ESX, IIS etc. experts to handle there day-to-day work. So, below are some basic Interview questions specifically for the System Admins working for Product Developments companies where they need to interact with Developers, Tester and DBA:...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions/Windows

June 19, 2014

How to add user in windows through command

How to add user in windows through command   We always get requirement to add multiple users to local or domain. So below are the domain name   To add a new user account on the local computer: net user username password /ADD Example: To add a new user account with the loginid John and with password “Password@123” net user John Password@123...

Categories Active Directory/Server 2008/Windows

March 7, 2014

Authoritative vs Non-Authoritative Restoration of Active Directory

Authoritative vs. Non-Authoritative Restoration of Active Directory  It is the absolute worst case scenario possible; your domain controller has crashed. So what type of restore do you do? It is any network administrator’s worst nightmare; your domain controller has crashed. So where do you go from here? Well, hopefully you have been doing your backups properly. If that is the...

Categories Active Directory

January 8, 2014

Upgrading your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008

Upgrading your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008 Here is in-place upgrading Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers. It will also help to installing Active Directory 2008 R2. Installing active directory 2008 might seem like simply feeding the DVD and pressing Next> until your server reboots into Windows Server 2008, there’s actually a...

Categories Active Directory

December 16, 2013

FSMO Roles

FSMO Roles What is AD FSMO Roles? A regular Interview Question explained below: Windows 2000/2003 Single-Master Model To prevent conflicting updates in Windows 2000/2003, the Active Directory performs updates to certain objects in a single-master fashion. In a single-master model, only one DC in the entire directory is allowed to process updates. This is similar to the role given to...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions

January 22, 2013

How DNS dynamic updates work together with the DNS “aging and scavenging” process in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2003

How DNS dynamic updates work together with the DNS “aging and scavenging” process in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2003   This article describes how Domain Name System (DNS) dynamic updates work together with the DNS “aging and scavenging” process in Microsoft Windows 2000 and in Microsoft Windows Server 2003.   DNS “aging and scavenging” intervals Windows Server 2003...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

January 15, 2013

What’s New in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012

What’s New in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 The enhancements to Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 affect many core areas of the system including platform, deployment, virtualization, authentication and management. In this session, hear about each of the features, the problems they address, and what’s required for your customers to deploy and leverage them. We delve into how...

Categories Active Directory/Windows