Category Archives: Wintel

Active Directory Partitions

By | November 7, 2020

Microsoft Active Directory as a whole is huge. There are many interconnected mechanisms run in order to let AD do what it does. There are many things in Active Directory which runs in background and we rarely come across it. Active Directory Partitions are one of them. AD Partitions basically arrange and segregate the data… Read More »

Error: HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter

By | October 8, 2020

Recently VirtualBox released it’s latest version – 6.1.14 r140239 (Qt5.6.2). In this users are facing network card related issue which restricts their VMs to power on. The similar issue was with earlier versions of VirtualBox too, but in current version, it’s frequent. We are getting following error when we are using “Host-Only” network configuration: Failed… Read More »

Deep dive into NTFS permission

By | September 27, 2020

I am sure you are well aware of ACL (Access Control List). The access on any file or folder is controlled by ACL. Means, if we want that specific user can only access, or having specific level of access on any folder or file, that can be controlled by ACL. The same in Windows Server/Workstation… Read More »

Understanding FSMO Roles – 11: Step by step process to transfer and seize the roles

By | August 5, 2020

With this post, we are finally close our FSMO Roles series. In this post we will see the step by step process to transfer and seize the FSMO role. But before I proceed, I request you to check our previous posts, in case you have any doubt about FSMO roles concept. So the first step… Read More »

Understanding FSMO Roles – 10: difference between transferring and seizing roles

By | July 22, 2020

This is the last theoretical topic in FSMO Roles series. I hope till this point you have understood what FSMO roles are. In production environment, we can’t have one machine for something forever. Similarly we can’t have one FSMO role, whether it’s forest level or domain level, on one Domain Controller forever. Movement of existing… Read More »