Category Archives: Microsoft Active Directory

Active Directory Certificate Services Best Practices


AD CS is composed of several role services that perform several tasks. One or more of these role services can be installed on a server as required. These role services are as follows: Certification Authority— This role service installs the … Continue reading

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Microsoft Active Directory Best Practice Part II


I have written Active Directory Best Practice last year. I received huge feedback on this article. Recently I had to deal with an Active Directory disaster. I believe time is perfect to write part II on this same topics and … Continue reading

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Certificate Services Deep Drive


How to use the Certreq.exe utility to create and submit a certificate request that includes a SAN Create a text file using notepad. copy the following content and paste inside the text file and save as request.inf. ;copy from here … Continue reading

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How to Extend Root CA and Sub CA Validation Period in Windows Server 2008 R2 Environment—Step by Step Guide


How Certificate Authority Check Validity: As a pre-caution backup CA, IIS and registry of certificate servers. To Backup Certificate Authority Log on to the system as a Backup Operator or a Certification Authority Administrator. Open Certification Authority>click the name of … Continue reading

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Advanced Group Policy Object Management 4.0


Why do you need Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM)? If you are a midsize or large organization with several group policy administrator in multiple sites, everybody is playing their part in group policy administration but does not have a proper … Continue reading

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Microsoft Active Directory—Best Practice


In this article, I am writing an overview of Microsoft Active Directory. You might be thinking; well you know everything on Active Directory. I would recommend you to go through this article and revisit your own Active Directory infrastructure. You … Continue reading

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Fix Powershell Warning and Enhance Active Directory by installing Active Directory Web Service


Microsoft AD Management Gateway Service provides a Web service interface to Active Directory domains and instances of Active Directory LDS or Active Directory Application Mode that are running on a Domain controller as the Active Directory Management Gateway Service. You can install the Active Directory Management … Continue reading

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An Overview of Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)


Certificate services provide public key infrastructure (PKI) for organization. There are lot of benefits to have a PKI infrastructure in Active Directory infrastructure. One of the biggest advantage of deploying certificate is to identify requestor requesting information a server. This … Continue reading

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Rename Domain with Exchange 2007/2010 not feasible! an alternative solutions


Recently my company registered a new domain name and wanted to me to investigate best possible way to rename domain internally, change websites (hosted on IIS) publicly accessible CNAME to new domain name and change email address for entire organization. … Continue reading

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How to create an external trust between two separate domains/forests


A trust is a relationship established between domains that enables users in one domain to be authenticated by a domain controller in the other domain. There are different type of trust like External, Realm, Forest and shortcut. This can be … Continue reading

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