Getting Rid of and Preventing Lingering Objects in Active Directory
We recently had an issue where a few DC’s in our DR site came online with a date that was older than the tombstone life of 60 days. This issue introduced some lingering objects in to our directory. If...
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I had one of my client techs in Europe reach out to me this week and state that he had a license violation with one of our systems and that it would not activate Windows. I am in a pretty large...
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I have been working with one of our remote administrators over the last few weeks to replace an old file server. He stood up a new server and replicated the files to the new system. I setup a DFS...
View ArticleSharePoint access across a forest — Preventing logon prompts
A company reached out to me after they acquired another company. They wanted me to assist with IT integration. One of the first things that they asked me to do was give the new company access to...
View ArticleForest Trust with a Single Label Domain (SLD)
A company reached out to me after they acquired another company. They wanted me to assist with the IT integration. The first steps were to give the users in both domains access to Calendar, free/busy,...
View ArticleDFS Access across Forest Trust Fails
I am working with a company who is going through an acquisition. They were looking to share content with the other company using their local file server. For this example, I will call the primary...
View ArticleMigrating Exchange Mailbox from another Forest – Mailbox exceeds target quota
I was recently helping a company collapse an acquisitions Exchange environment. We were moving mailboxes to the primary companies Exchange 2010 environment. They had 15 databases, all with a 300 MB...
View ArticleExport-AutoDiscoverConfig – Logon Failure: unknown user name or bad password
I was recently setting up autodiscover for a domain that was being collapsed and Exchange being migrated to another forest. I ran the following command: $remote = get-credential. I entered the...
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