Till now we have understood the concept of Forest and Domain and also we know that we have five (5) FSMO Roles in total. Now let see how those roles are placed in an Active Directory Infrastructure. Out of five roles, two roles are Forest level roles and three are Domain level roles. It means,… Read More »
I hope from my last post, you got a fair idea about initial things, important to understand FSMO Roles (also called Operation Master). You know that Windows Active Directory structure is a multi-master operation. Means, in an AD, we generally have more than one master, called Domain Controllers. All DCs hold the database of Active… Read More »
I remember when I started working as Windows Admin several years ago, FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations) was a kind of nightmare for me. I Googled hundred times to find out what exactly it is, but found too theoretical/non-practical information. Now when I actually know what exactly it is, I find it very clear and… Read More »
Now a days we are managing most of the things from Powershell. Many modules come along with latest Powershell version but few things you need to install separately. Like Microsoft Azure Module which is used to managed Office 365 and MS Azure. Follow the steps to install AzureRM Powershell module in any Windows Server or… Read More »
Many of you might have face O365 connection issue in ADFS SSO or trying to setup your federated domain with a third party IDP from scratch. To do that, follow the below steps: Login to your ADFS server. Make sure that your ADFS server has the internet connectivity. If you are using Proxy to access… Read More »
In last few posts, we have understood the concept of RODC. This will be the last post in RODC series where we will know the necessary settings for newly installed RODC. As we saw in last post, that only installing RODC is not sufficient as it has to reach to the writable DC every time… Read More »
In last post, we have seen how to install the Read Only Domain Controller. Now the question is, is only installing RODC sufficient. Answer is NO. After the installation, we have to check few necessary settings before make RODC functional. Let’s see why. Currently I have shutdown my writable DCs and only my RODC is… Read More »