There are a thousand or more issues that can come up with virtualization if not done properly. One of which is having the same machine SID in the domain in case you decide to join them to one. This happens a lot of times especially when a virtual machine is created from a template or […]
While most organizations use Active Directory as their directory service, very few maximize the use of it. Several applications out there like Microsoft Exchange extend the default schema to track Exchange-related information. You can, however, extend the schema yourself by opening the Active Directory Schema snap-in from the Microsoft Management Console. Unfortunately, it is not […]
While it may seem easy to create Active Directory users using the management console, I still prefer doing it using scripts so as to make sure that they are done in a uniform, standard fashion (not to mention as fast as one can possibly do especially if you will be doing it for many users). […]
They say that this feature is available in as early as Windows 2000 but this is the only time I am hearing about it. But what is it, anyway? Tombstore reanimation is the process of re-activating a deleted object from Active Directory. When Active Directory deletes an object, say a user or computer, from the […]
This article highlights how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve database properties using SMO. Notice how easy it is to check the database properties using pretty common syntax One of the challenges I have when I was starting out as a SQL Server DBA was to check for the last backup date for a database. […]